![]() ![]() I met them for coffee at Café Mogador, three years after their first meeting. ![]() And in their new book “Identical Strangers: A Memoir of Twins Separated and Reunited” (Random House), they write, in alternating chapters, about their experience of finding each other and their origins. Thrilled and terrified, she headed to Café Mogador in the East Village of Manhattan to make the acquaintance of Elyse Schein. But then, out of the blue, an adoption agency called her and told her about the identical twin sister she didn’t know she had. Her adoptive family was her family, she wrote her adoptive mother was her mother. I’d known Paula slightly for years she wrote a lovely essay for Redbook many years ago refuting the persistent belief that all adoptees want to search for their birth parents. That’s essentially what happened to Brooklyn writer Paula Bernstein. Somewhere out there is someone who is exactly like us! What would it feel like to look into a face exactly like our own? Would my twin share my love of mid-century modern design, my fascination with Morocco, my encyclopedic memory of the names of minor ’70s actors who guest-starred on “The Love Boat”?Īnd what if she suddenly materialized in my life? ![]() There’s a reason it’s a theme in fairy tales and folk tales, stories that speak to our psyches’ most powerful needs. Even for adults, the notion of identical twins separated at birth is emotionally resonant. We love ultrasound images of twins hugging (or punching) in utero, stories about shared secret languages, notions of twin-to-twin ESP, movies like “The Parent Trap.” (But c’mon, identical cousins? That’s crazy talk!)Īs children, many of us fantasized about having a twin: a perpetual playmate, a partner in mischief, someone who’d love us unconditionally. Romulus and Remus, Jacob and Esau, Mary-Kate and Ashley. Human beings have always been fascinated by twins. ![]()
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