Personal Narrative: Life As A Twin

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Life as a Twin
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Newport Harbor High School - Not many people know what everyday life is like for a twin, is it hard, is it different we can find out! In the united states of America approximately about every 32 in 1000 people are twins, according to the cdc government website, lucky there are a few twins on the campus of Newport Harbor High School. If you didn't know there are two types of twins, Identical and fraternal, identical twins carry the same genes they get from their parents and fraternal twins are born and don't look much alike coming from newsmomsneed.org. A twin student from Newport Harbor High School was asked if it was a burden to have a twin saying it was just a little bit annoying because people always get them two mixed up. There is a common misconception between identical twins
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Since they are almost exactly the same age they can socialize with a lot of the same people. So a twin was asked if him and his brother were friends with one another's friends and told me that they do both share a majority of their friends with each other, However being a twin does not mean you and your twin share the same personalities with each other.

Siblings always don’t get along with each other (personal experience) but do twins get along with always get along? When I asked someone with a twin if they usually get along with each other they told me that they have the same relationship with each other like two siblings have with each other, no matter the age gap.

The twin birth rate rose over 76% during the time period of 1980 and 2009 according to abouthealth.com. The frequencies of women having 35-39 have almost doubled in the time period and for women over 40 years or older have quadrupled all coming from

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