Twin "Trick or Treat!"

My identical twin sister and I were born on Halloween in 1964, four minutes apart. Audrey was born first, and I came second. Therefore, she was the "trick" and I was the "treat!"

We weighed in at four pounds each, arriving six weeks early. My mother named Audrey, after Audrey Hepburn, and my father named me, Heidi, (a German name because we were born in Germany).

We were "army brats." My father was serving in the army a married my mother, a beautiful young German woman. They had been married two years before our birth.  We were affectionately called "Pumpkin," by our father.

A lot of our birthday parties were costume parties and we always had pumpkin pie for birthday cake - our favorite!

When we were in the third grade, our little friends talked us into playing a "trick" on our teachers. We had the pod set-up at grade school (one big area divided into four classrooms). Audrey and I switched seats after recess one day, and were in classrooms diagonal from each other.

Audrey's teacher asked me a question on a subject I had not taken yet (the classes rotated during the day on different lessons). All of the kids were giggling, watching the "big switch-a-roo" in action.

Startled that the teacher had called upon me, I giggled nervously, got up, and walked over to my assigned seat and Audrey went back to hers. 

The teachers and children laughed at the little prank and we enjoyed the attention. 

We pulled another "trick" in high school, this one involving dates we had for a Saturday night. We were 18 years old and best friends with another set of identical twins, who were 17 years old. Their names were Karen and Kelly. I had a date with Marty, a guy I had seen a few times already, and Kelly had a date with Frank, and it was their second date.

Karen and Audrey answered the door when our dates arrived, and pretended to be "Kelly and Heidi" ready to go out. My date sat down and visited with Audrey, kind of confused at why she was there. (Kelly and I were hiding behind the wall divider, watching this all play out.)

Frank, Kelly's date, suddenly, after a brief conversation,  leaned over to kiss Karen hello, and that's when Karen freaked out and leaned back to sway away from the kiss, saying, "Oh no, I'm Karen."  Kelly and I came around the wall divider into the front room and claimed our confused dates, laughing hysterically.

We didn't fool Marty but we sure got Frank good! It was so funny, and a great story to tell all of our friends!

Audrey and I are 42 years old now and we're still best friends; closer than close - always have been, always will be. And we do still have a few "tricks" up our sleeves!

Heidi Solokis

Littleton, Colorado

Twins, Audrey & Heidi