You Are… Who? Pt. 2

twinsLast time we were here we spoke about my ex-girlfriend Helen, whom I hadn’t seen in four years before meeting again at a party by accident. So I approach her, say hey, and she pretends like she doesn’t even notice me. I asked what she was doing there, thoroughly confused about it as I was studying in neither our native town nor the one where she went to university, and as far as I knew she didn’t know where I lived. We actually hadn’t spoken at all for the last four years, but I still expected her to at least remember me, which made the next moment all the more jarring. Helen turned to me, glared at me and asked “Excuse me, do I know you?” in the most bitchy tone that you can possibly imagine. And I say “It’s me! It’s Liam! Don’t you remember? We used to date!” And she just looks around, as if she’s searching for the hidden cameras, and asks me if this is some kind of joke. I tried to desperately assure her that this wasn’t a joke, that I had no idea why she wouldn’t remember me. It turns into a huge deal, and ultimately I just have to leave with my tail between my legs, confused and, honestly, a little scared.

So I went home, a few days pass, but this feeling that something is horribly wrong keeps nagging at me. I read a bit online about memory loss, and I realized that certain conditions and diseases can cause memory loss, but we’re talking really serious, life-threatening stuff, like aneurysms bursting in the brain. That made me all the more worried about my ex-girlfriend, so I decided to call my mom, explain to her what had happened and ask her to track down and speak to Helen’s mom. A few more days pass before I received a response. Helen was fine – no aneurysm had burst, her memory wasn’t affected in any way, she was the same old Helen. But weirdest of all, she also hadn’t left the town in which she was studying recently. So what the hell?

It took another conversation with the bitchy Helen, and some investigation by my mom, to find out the truth. When my ex-girlfriend was born, she unexpectedly had an identical twin. Her mom, who was single at the time, thought that she couldn’t take care of two children, so she gave one up for adoption. The two sisters, separated at birth like in the movie “Twinsters”, proceeded to then live almost entirely similar lives, right up to dating a guy named Liam in high school. Sadly, I wish to say that the story ended with the sister reuniting, but alas, even all those years later they still haven’t met, at least to my knowledge. Thanks to me meeting both of them they’re aware of each other, but neither has expressed an interest in meeting the other. Still, the sheer fact that something like this could possibly happen is insane, and yet it did. But hey, it makes for one hell of a story!