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Indivisible by Two: Lives of  Extraordinary Twins
Indivisible by Two Lives of Extraordinary Twins
Author: Nancy L. Segal
ISBN-13: 9780674025707
ISBN-10: 0674025709
Publication Date: 9/30/2007
Pages: 288
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Publisher: Harvard University Press
Book Type: Paperback
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From Publishers Weekly: "..... By delving deeply into the specific lives of 10 sets of twins, one set of triplets and a set of quadruplets, Segal operates less as a scientist and more as a perceptive listener. She tells about twins raised apart, like Gerry and Mark, who both became firefighters; when they met at age 31, says Gerry, "we were so alike, there was no need to get acquainted." Not so for Oskar, one of half-Jewish identical twins, a Catholic Hitler Youth member in Nazi Germany while his twin, Jack, spent his childhood as a Jew in Trinidad. The author consistently conveys empathy for the uncommon problems of her subjects, such as Agnes and Audrey, identical sisters whose lives changed dramatically when Audrey underwent a sex change operation......"

I found this book fascinating!