Twins For Life Assignment

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Hey my name is Sarah"¦but yasmin too. Weird? Not if you are an identical twin. On July 7. 1983, I was born in a hospital in Belgium. My sister arrived thirteen minutes later. We grew up in Belgium but we were not the same as everyone else. When we met people in the streets they would always pay more attention to us than to my brother. Even strangers would stare at us because we were identical, so much so that sometimes I wasn't even sure f I was Sarah or yasmin.Years passed and we started to develop some individuality. By the time we reached high school we had developed our own style and character. They called me, Sarah, the crazy one, and yasmin the calm one. I remember my brother's girlfriend saying one day." You know how I recognize you two? I see you, Sarah, as the guy and yasmin as the girl." I was totally confused for a minute or two because she actually told me that I looked like a guy. She explained later that she saw us like that because I was always wearing loose clothes and not really caring about ho...

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