The Marshall News Messenger · Ashdown, AR
Moore: You two
There are five sets of twins in my family. Seriously. Five sets. Insert the Arkansas joke here. My mother is an identical twin. Her mother was an identical. Her mom’s twin had a set of fraternal twins. One of her other children had a set of identicals. And my wife and I have identical twin grandsons. Growing up around that, I really did just think that lots of lookalikes around me was perfectly normal. So, when my wife called me to tell me our daughter was pregnant with twins, my response was, “Oh, OK.” Even she couldn’t understand my lack of surprise. Unless you’ve been around twins, you cannot know the unusual and interesting things that orbit them. All of my life, my mother and her twin sported the same hairstyle, wore similar or the same outfits and shoes, and drove similar cars. Mistaken identity was common. When I was a kid in Ashdown, Arkansas, mom worked at a savings and loan on a corner downtown.
