I am Brian the other half of a set of identical twins. My twin brother is Dave and we were born in the small town of Tillsonburg back in 1958, when identical twin were rare. They even put it in the paper back then. I can honestly say it has been an amazing life experience being a identical twin.

We are 48 yrs old, and are bound, and the connection we share just gets stronger over time. It's mind boggling at times. We both sense each other's pain, and our daily habits are the same, and we use a lot of the same products.

There a few differences in our personalities, but the constant thing is people still until this day get us mixed up. Our own family still does it. When I am shopping I'll run into people all the time, and they walk up, and say "hi Dave how you doing?" Sometimes I will correct them, and tell them I am Brian.

I don't know if our parents did it to torture the rest of the family. But they dressed us exactly the same until we were 9 yrs old. I mean nobody could tell us apart except our mom. When we were young we were holy terrors of the neighborhood. What one didn't think of the other one did.

I remember when were 4 years old, our dad didn't have any yard tools. So my partner in crime and I thought it was a great idea to go around the neighborhood, and gather up all the yard tools we could find for our dad. Well when dad got home from work that night, he was in for shock because there was a pile yard tools sitting there waiting for him.

We had managed too take almost all the yard tools on the block, and pile them up in the backyard. When our Dad saw this he broke out in such laughter, and called our mom out to see what we had done. We thought we were in big trouble, but dad and mom just laughed, and thought it was so cute of us twins to do that for our dad so he could fix up the yard. Anyway, we had to return all the yard tools to the neighbors, and everyone got a good laugh out of it. Except the old grump that lived at the end of street!  He didn't like us twins much, because we used to untie his dog all the time, and let it run loose so we could play with it.

There are so many stories I could share about being an identical twin, but there is not enough room here. All I can say is that it has been and will continue to be a wonderful experience - this special bound that only we as twins share.

I can tell you one thing we both hated growing up, was our relatives making us stand side by side to see if they could tell us apart. They could never get it right, and when they did, we told them they were wrong anyway just for fun.

Brian Roberts

Ontario, Canada

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