One and the Same

I am currently reading this book, by Abigail Pogrebin and it is fascinating. The more I read about identical twins the stranger they seem to me. I have to hope that I had two eggs drop and not one split for the sake of the unborn twins's sanity. Being an identical is one person stuck in two bodies. Beyond strange. The innate need to be with the identical twin, compete with and soothe him/her is crazy and identical twins tend to just dedicate themselves to themselves with many many never marrying, having close friends, or marrying only someone who accepts that he/she is marrying both. WEIRD. There is a lot of information about fraternal twins in this interesting book about "everyone's struggle to be singular" and I find it particularly useful to hear from adult twins so as to know how to avoid certain pitfalls. I recommend this read to anyone whose curiosity is piqued by this strange human phenomenon. In Pogrebin's book I learned that twin births have increased 70% since 1980 and between 1980-1995 triplets increased by 500%. To my relief most of the complications associated with multiple births stem from those conceived with help. Like I said before, do not mess with nature my friends, there are over three million IVF children in the world today. Scary.