I See Dead Men Walking
Robert Walker
Ephesians 2:1-4
The famous ''Jim'' twins, Jim Springer and Jim Lewis, are identical twins adopted by different families soon after birth and reunited 39 years later, in 1979. At the time, there were only 19 reported cases of reunited twins, so for psychologist Thomas Bouchard - the man who studied them - this reunion offered a rare opportunity to examine questions about nature vs. nurture. The similarity of the twins' separate lives shed light on the power of genes in determining our lifestyles:
1. Both were named Jim by their adoptive parents.
2. Each had married two times, the first to a Woman named Linda and the second to a woman named Betty.
3. Jim Springer named his son James Allen, while Jim Lewis chose James Alan.
4. Both had dogs named Toy.
5. The two drank Miller Lite, smoked Salem's and drove Chevrolets.
6. Both shared carpentry as a hobby and had built identical benches around trees in their backyard
7. They hated baseball and loved stock car racing.
8. They chewed their fingernails obsessively.
9. They both spent time as sheriff's deputies
10. Each was an average-to-poor student in High School
11. They had voted for the same candidate in the past three presidential elections.
12. Each Jim doted on his wife by leaving love notes for her around the house.
13. Both had had a vasectomy.
TLC- REAL TWINS-SITE wysiwyg://24http://tlc.discoery.com/tlcpages/twins/sep arated.htlm
According to most psychologists, being a twin has no inherent dire consequence psychologically. But when you combined a bad twin dynamic with abuse, favoritism or other negative family influences, the ramifications can be catastrophic - as was the case for Sunny and Jeen Han.
The Han girls were born in South Korea, a culture that privileges the oldest child, even in twins - Sunny was that lucky older twin. The two girls relocated to the United States with their mother in the late 1980s, leaving ...
Robert Walker
Ephesians 2:1-4
The famous ''Jim'' twins, Jim Springer and Jim Lewis, are identical twins adopted by different families soon after birth and reunited 39 years later, in 1979. At the time, there were only 19 reported cases of reunited twins, so for psychologist Thomas Bouchard - the man who studied them - this reunion offered a rare opportunity to examine questions about nature vs. nurture. The similarity of the twins' separate lives shed light on the power of genes in determining our lifestyles:
1. Both were named Jim by their adoptive parents.
2. Each had married two times, the first to a Woman named Linda and the second to a woman named Betty.
3. Jim Springer named his son James Allen, while Jim Lewis chose James Alan.
4. Both had dogs named Toy.
5. The two drank Miller Lite, smoked Salem's and drove Chevrolets.
6. Both shared carpentry as a hobby and had built identical benches around trees in their backyard
7. They hated baseball and loved stock car racing.
8. They chewed their fingernails obsessively.
9. They both spent time as sheriff's deputies
10. Each was an average-to-poor student in High School
11. They had voted for the same candidate in the past three presidential elections.
12. Each Jim doted on his wife by leaving love notes for her around the house.
13. Both had had a vasectomy.
TLC- REAL TWINS-SITE wysiwyg://24http://tlc.discoery.com/tlcpages/twins/sep arated.htlm
According to most psychologists, being a twin has no inherent dire consequence psychologically. But when you combined a bad twin dynamic with abuse, favoritism or other negative family influences, the ramifications can be catastrophic - as was the case for Sunny and Jeen Han.
The Han girls were born in South Korea, a culture that privileges the oldest child, even in twins - Sunny was that lucky older twin. The two girls relocated to the United States with their mother in the late 1980s, leaving ...
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