An identical twin could experience the world and come back to report about choices we might have made.” It is not just the sense of identity that excites us but the difference the fantasy of an identical twin is a projection of ourselves living another life, finding other opportunities, choosing other careers, sleeping with other spouses. “It feeds the common fantasy that any one of us might have a clone, a doppelgänger someone who is not only a human mirror but also an ideal companion someone who understands me perfectly, almost perfectly, because he is me, almost me. “Perhaps what is so compelling about the story of reunited twins is the implicit suggestion that it could happen to anyone,” the Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Lawrence Wright observed in his 1997 book, Twins: And What They Tell Us About Who We Are.
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