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Twinning
The girls were neighbors but were often confused for twins: same age, same height, they were inseparable. It was their idea to dress alike for a photo, and their mothers indulged their request. By candlelight, they stitched their daughters’ dresses, working the needle as their silhouettes splashed to the wall. One evening a retired lumberman named Elroy Magnusson left a bar and started home. Though he’d only made it a few short blocks before his constitutional was interrupted by a startling scene. There, through the window, he saw the silhouette of a woman sewing by candlelight. And there again, just one house over, he saw that scene repeat. Uncanny, he thought. Impossible. The liquor, he assumed, was to blame. But the next night Elroy returned to that spot stone-sober, and there the mothers were again. Mouth wide, he watched their needles lift and plunge and swore he was seeing double. But he wasn’t. He was simply seeing a pair of women who were nearly twins themselves: same age, same height, though long since set adrift from their sisterhood. Words by BJ Hollars. Audio narration by Jane Jeffries. Audio recording by Scott Morfitt. |