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...were only there during the summer and it was very expensive to just have a membership for three months," Miriam says. "We worked it out so Beth would have the ID in the morning and I would have the ID late at night...
...there were some complications to the ruse. Miriam knows Arabic and would often stop to talk to other Arabic-speaking patrons. Beth does not and would often have to fudge her way through conversations with her sister's acquaintances...
...stop speaking Arabic because it would incriminate Beth," Miriam says...
Switching roles has been a way of life for the Goldstein twins, in more ways than one. At Harvard, Miriam chose Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, and Beth chose Biochemical Sciences but in high school in Tampa, Fla., Beth says, "People thought Miriam was the science person and I was the humanities person...
They were so sure in high school that Miriam would go into the sciences that Beth tried to convince her to go to MIT instead...