Word: twinning
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...even possible for sisters and brothers to overcome ancient grievances as they band together for their parents' sake. As a child, psychologist Bedford, for example, often fought with her twin, Barbara, and her elder sister Margie. In adulthood, the three women harbored grudges and rarely saw one another. But in 1985, after Margie had a serious accident, her siblings teamed up to tend to her through months of rehab. The three of them talked through their childhood conflicts. Margie was their father's favorite, Barbara was their mother's, and Victoria felt like a neglected middle child. The women acknowledged...
...marriage between gay and lesbian partners became legal in Massachusetts, when the U.S. invaded Iraq in a so-called preemptive strike, when George W. Bush was reelected in one of the most contested and contentious presidential elections to date. And of course we studied during the time when the Twin Towers were toppled and an incomprehensible number of people perished...
...scheduling of those back-to-back duels with BC and BU couldn’t have seemed any worse at the time. Harvard had stumbled out of the starting block, tying Brown before receiving twin whippings at the hands of Cornell and Colgate. Only a three-goal, third-period surge had saved the Crimson from a disastrous home loss to Yale, and Harvard’s performance the following night against Princeton, an 8-6 victory, wasn’t much more convincing...
...Crimson did not let the poor performance extend any further. The next weekend it ended its season with twin victories at the Massachusetts State Championships and the Northeast Championships. Rhoads credited strong leadership from the team’s seniors as the key to increasing the team’s morale...
...Being a twin means never just worrying about yourself—there’s always someone else on your radar screen. But as time has gone on, that aspect of our relationship has eased. Our junior year was spent oceans apart. I spent four months in Ireland, he spent the spring and summer in Scotland. That time taught me to be less and less anxious about my brother and more and more happy in his friendship, confident that he was having fun and we were both growing up. A lot of people at Harvard don’t even...