at the end of this week hannah will finish the school term and return home for the summer. having recently returned home from new york i will also be there. this is the first summer in 4 years where we will both be at home together. last week i went to leeds to stay with her and realised that getting used to being a twin again will take a moment. in the life i was building over the past year being a twin wasn't part of the main picture - of course it was there but my identity was built around me.
when we're together and back in the place where we've always been 'the twins' its hard to not let that fact dominate. walking into a party of hannah's friends, many who haven't met me and watching heads swivel and hearing mummers of 'wow its another hannah' reminded me that people see us before they see the individual.
from the moment twins are conceived their lives are a negotiation of space. we are hannah and amy, individual yet always intertwined.
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