Accidental Brothers by Dr. Nancy L. Segal

Author:Dr. Nancy L. Segal
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: St. Martin's Press

Keeping Them Straight

Experimental psychological research shows that it’s easier to remember faces than the names that go with the faces. Researchers still debate why this is so, but this truism about memory comforted me when I found it difficult to remember which brothers were the real twins and which ones were raised in Bogotá and La Paz.24 I had trouble keeping the four individuals, accidental brothers, reared-apart twins, and replicas straight until I saw them for myself. A chart with pictures and captions would have helped me greatly at the beginning.

As convoluted as the twins’ different relationships appeared to be to us, they paled in complexity relative to their relationships with their parents and siblings. The Bogotá brothers grew up with a sister, Diana, who is four years their senior. Once the switch was uncovered, she was still Jorge’s biological sister but instantly became Carlos’s unrelated sister, William’s biological reared-apart sister, and Wilber’s replicated sister. The accidental pair in La Paz had four older siblings, whose characteristics yielded even more genetically and environmentally varied and complex comparisons. And we could compare the La Paz parents with the son they raised and the son they did not.

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