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...Julia Ryan contributed to the reporting of this story...
Senior Alex Bick skippered the A boat, which placed 17th out of 22 competing boats. Sophomore Julia van der Vink served as his crew for the first seven races, with freshman Jin Zang stepping in for the final race...
...ascertain, a twin, but she is a consummate pro, and she gives it a solid try. Edwina and Elspeth--the mom and the aunt--are estranged from each other, and when Elspeth dies, she leaves her apartment, which overlooks Highgate Cemetery in London, to her twin nieces Julia and Valentina, on the condition that they spend a year living there. Julia and Valentina are 20 years old, ash blond, pretty and skinny. They're bright, aimless, dreamy college dropouts who live at home. They don't have jobs. They're virgins. At night they snuggle together in the same...
...Julia and Valentina flit off to London to their luxurious new apartment--which turns out to be haunted by Elspeth, who is perplexed to discover that she has become a ghost. "What am I supposed to be learning from the spiritual equivalent of house arrest?" she wonders. "Is this an oversight on the part of the celestial authorities?" She can't leave the apartment, though she can, with great effort, nudge physical objects. (Thus vindicating the "noetic science" of Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol...
Gradually, differences arise between the once inseparable Julia and Valentina. In the land of perfect oneness, asymmetries are afoot. Valentina wants to go out into the world and be a fashion designer. She feels trapped and smothered by their twinnish dyad. Julia wants to keep things as they are and feels betrayed by Valentina's growing independence. The distracting presences of Elspeth (whom only Valentina can see) and two attractive male neighbors push the girls further off balance. They can't stay together, and they can't separate. Something will have to give...