The Evil Twin
From James Donahue’s Journal
I have personally known identical twins in my life and have always been interested in the mental and spiritual connections they exhibit.
I went to high school with Roger and Rodney Lamb, sons of the local postmaster. They were husky jolly young men and full of trickery. They looked so much alike it was almost impossible to tell one from the other and I was always surprised that their mother always knew which was which. Naturally, their favorite trick was to portray themselves as each other and get teachers and everyone else around them confused.
I was one grade behind the Lamb twins so didn’t run with them in high school, although after graduation, when home from college on winter holidays, I got to know them well. By then they had both shipped out on the Great Lakes and were coming home for the winter months with their pockets full of cash. My link to the Lambs was through Bill Havers, who had been in their high school class and was my roommate in college.
While laughing and doing wild and crazy tricks much of the time, I had some serious moments with them . . . usually on a one-to-one basis. That was when they told about feeling one another’s pains and having an unexplained awareness when the other was in some kind of difficulty. It was as if they shared the same spirit, even when serving on different ships at different ends of the Great Lakes.
I met a second and much more interesting pair of identical twins after our daughter Jennifer began dating a young man in Caro High School. She had just turned 16 and this young man was a year or two older so Doris and I kept close watch on this relationship. Also Jennifer was not yet driving so I was often her chauffeur when she went to see him, or they went out on dates.
This young man had two identical twin sisters that were then about 14 or 15 years of age. The girls were strikingly beautiful, even at that young age. Even though they were identical twins, it was easy to distinguish one from the other, however. Their personalities and behavior was dramatically polarized. One girl dressed well, was a serious student, and had a pleasant personality. The other was living on the wild side. She thought nothing of wearing colors that did not match, dressing in mini-skirts or ultra-tight jeans, and socially misbehaving in about every way one might imagine. Needless to say she also was doing poorly in school. The family referred to her as the evil twin, and I do not think they were joking.
I never had an opportunity to get to personally know the twin girls but their extreme differences drew my interest. What made the Lamb twins so similar and these girls so different? Did the spiritual link get somehow turned upside down while the girls were still in the womb? Was it possible that one of the girls became possessed by outside forces and the other was not?
Jennifer continued to date the older brother for about a year, and kept in touch with him for some time after that. She said a peculiar thing happened to the twins as they grew older. It was as if they exchanged personalities. The sister who was living the perfect role suddenly went wild and the wild sister settled down and began living a normal life style. They continued to exhibit opposite personality quirks. How can this be explained?
Rodney L. Lamb, 71, of Bridge City, Texas, died February 26, 2009, in Port Arthur, Texas. Memorial service was held on March 5, 2009 at Claybar Funeral Home Chapel in Orange, Texas.
From James Donahue’s Journal
I have personally known identical twins in my life and have always been interested in the mental and spiritual connections they exhibit.
I went to high school with Roger and Rodney Lamb, sons of the local postmaster. They were husky jolly young men and full of trickery. They looked so much alike it was almost impossible to tell one from the other and I was always surprised that their mother always knew which was which. Naturally, their favorite trick was to portray themselves as each other and get teachers and everyone else around them confused.
I was one grade behind the Lamb twins so didn’t run with them in high school, although after graduation, when home from college on winter holidays, I got to know them well. By then they had both shipped out on the Great Lakes and were coming home for the winter months with their pockets full of cash. My link to the Lambs was through Bill Havers, who had been in their high school class and was my roommate in college.
While laughing and doing wild and crazy tricks much of the time, I had some serious moments with them . . . usually on a one-to-one basis. That was when they told about feeling one another’s pains and having an unexplained awareness when the other was in some kind of difficulty. It was as if they shared the same spirit, even when serving on different ships at different ends of the Great Lakes.
I met a second and much more interesting pair of identical twins after our daughter Jennifer began dating a young man in Caro High School. She had just turned 16 and this young man was a year or two older so Doris and I kept close watch on this relationship. Also Jennifer was not yet driving so I was often her chauffeur when she went to see him, or they went out on dates.
This young man had two identical twin sisters that were then about 14 or 15 years of age. The girls were strikingly beautiful, even at that young age. Even though they were identical twins, it was easy to distinguish one from the other, however. Their personalities and behavior was dramatically polarized. One girl dressed well, was a serious student, and had a pleasant personality. The other was living on the wild side. She thought nothing of wearing colors that did not match, dressing in mini-skirts or ultra-tight jeans, and socially misbehaving in about every way one might imagine. Needless to say she also was doing poorly in school. The family referred to her as the evil twin, and I do not think they were joking.
I never had an opportunity to get to personally know the twin girls but their extreme differences drew my interest. What made the Lamb twins so similar and these girls so different? Did the spiritual link get somehow turned upside down while the girls were still in the womb? Was it possible that one of the girls became possessed by outside forces and the other was not?
Jennifer continued to date the older brother for about a year, and kept in touch with him for some time after that. She said a peculiar thing happened to the twins as they grew older. It was as if they exchanged personalities. The sister who was living the perfect role suddenly went wild and the wild sister settled down and began living a normal life style. They continued to exhibit opposite personality quirks. How can this be explained?
Rodney L. Lamb, 71, of Bridge City, Texas, died February 26, 2009, in Port Arthur, Texas. Memorial service was held on March 5, 2009 at Claybar Funeral Home Chapel in Orange, Texas.