My twin and I are so close we both wrote a twin story on this website today. I guess you could say my twin and I are exactly the same. We do everything together. We dress the same without telling each other what we are going to wear. What was really weird was when my twin and I were both five years old and my twin went with his little friend to Patagonia Lake in Nogales. While he was up there he had fallen and hit his head right on top of his right eyebrow and had seven stitches.

On that exact same day when he hit his head, so did I. But I hit my head on a table and had to get seven stitches, too. That was weird - we both were scarred in the exact same spot. On May 20, 2001 my twin brother had back surgery for a broken bone in his back from a fall onto his butt that smashed a bone.

When they took him to the back to get him started I could feel him panicking because of his fright, and I started freaking out. I had to get examined to see what went wrong with me, and the doctor told my parents that I could feel my brother’s pain.

The way they found that out was when the next day came and my brother woke up and tried to get up and he was in severe pain and I could feel it. Then the doctor set us next to each other and he pushed on my brothers opening where they did surgery on him and I screamed in pain for him to stop.

That was the day I found out that my twin and I were closer than I thought. We could actually feel each other’s pain. Since then we do everything together and hopefully we will be able to write a book about our lives and how it is to be a twin who can feel the other twin’s pain.

Michael Cordova

Tucson, AZ