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twin they tell me i was born two months premature the first of twins they tell me it was difficult my birth i still can’t hear in one ear i have an indentation in my chest on the right side where they had to run a tube in me to keep me alive they tell me they kept Douglas alive for three weeks but he just couldn’t survive i wonder what it would have been like to have someone look just like me we could switch places fool everyone we’d be inseparable my family doesn’t talk about him much but sometimes i still think of him maybe with the medical world today he would be alive sometimes i feel like i’m not whole Copyright Janet Kuypers. All rights reserved. No material may be reprinted without express permission.