III. "Can you feel each other's pain?"

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Please, for the love of all that is holy, do not pinch me and ask my sister if she felt it. Yes, this has happened to us before. I refer back to chapter one: our nervous systems are in no way connected.

Twins tend to be emotionally closer than siblings of different ages due to all our time together. Imagine someone slapping your best and closest friend across the face. Though you do not experience their pain, you feel as offended as if it were you who was slapped. Twins empathize in the same way. No, we can't feel it physically. Emotionally, though, the pain is just as real.

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