“Enchanting, fascinating....It's a wonderful book.”
—Lesley Stahl
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Mar 2010
"I could not put the book down"
-Amanda Dittlinger
I recently read the book One and the Same: My Life as an Identical Twin and What I’ve Learned About Everyone’s Struggle to Be Singular by Abigail Pogrebin. I always have my eye out for books that will help me understand what is like to be a part of a pair and so when I saw this book advertised in a Twin Club newsletter, I downloaded it to my Kindle on a whim. I’m glad I didn’t have much going on that week because I could not put the book down. It made me laugh, it made me cry, it made me feel like I was getting to know the future Maddie and Izzie better. Throughout the book Abigail is interviewing other twins in a search to learn more about herself and her relationship with her identical sister. The stories will both warm you and sometimes make you sad. I learned so much from reading her book. For example, not to idealize and romanticize the twinship of my girls. It is a special, unique bond, but it isn’t always perfect and it shouldn’t be. I highly recommend this book to all parents of multiples, or actually anyone who is in any kind of relationship with a multiple.
(From Abby: Thank you to Amanda—please check out her great blog: www.txtwins.blogspot.com)
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