Introduction:
Hello, my name is Ashlee Carr, and today I am going to be talking about how my life is being a twin. When it came down to choosing my topic, I decided to talk about being a twin since not everyone can experience this like I do. Being a twin comes with many benefits; including having a built-in bestie, dressing the same, getting people confused, and many other things.
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- Travel Experience
- Review
- Photo Essay
- Video Presentation
Travel Experience:
In May of 2022, my family took a trip to Virginia Beach. It was our annual family reunion, which is the first time my family has been to in a little while. It was so nice to see my family members I haven’t seen for a little while. I was so excited to see my favorite cousin, but that didn’t go as planned. When I heard that she wasn’t able to attend the family reunion I was a little hurt, since I was waiting forever to see her again. But my twin did her best to try to cheer me up, and still get a chance to enjoy this trip.
I was really hurt about my favorite cousin not being able to attend. I didn’t even want to be on the trip any more; just ready to pack everything up and head back home. But everyone was telling me I could still enjoy the trip even without my cousin being there. At the time I really didn’t want to hear all that.
Since I was upset, I just wanted to be left alone. At the time, I was laying down trying to take a nap since I had nothing else to do. As soon as I closed my eyes, I heard my sister calling my name. She was asking me if I wanted to color with her. I had agreed to color with her. We got our coloring supplies, some snacks, and started to play some music. Then after a little while, we talked about how I should still attend the family reunion. Once she said that, I knew it was time to start getting ready to leave.
After some time spent with my sister, I decided to actually go to the family reunion. When we got there, everyone was happy to see us and spend time with one another. Later on that night, I was thinking to myself that just maybe I was overreacting. I could have maybe not got so upset about my cousin not showing up, and give my sister the opportunity to actually enjoy the trip and not have to worry about making me happy. But one thing about it is that she is willing to do anything to put a smile on my face.
Even though I was a little hurt at the beginning of the trip, I’m glad my sister was there for me. Not a whole lot of people will understand the bonds that twins share with one another and that’s okay. I know people thought how cool it was that my sister helped me get over being sad. Sometimes we both struggle to realize is, it’s okay to rely on one another.So, if this experience has taught me anything, I would say it has taught me that sometimes your twin can make all your problems go away. If it wasn’t for her, I would have probably been in a sad funk the whole trip. Overall, twins really are built in besties. I’m so grateful and blessed to have a twin like her.
Review:
If you are unfamiliar with the show Sister Sister, the show is pretty much about how Tia and Tamera are twins who were separated at birth, with each being adopted by a different parent. One day, the teens have a chance encounter while shopping at a clothing store in the mall. After the families meet, Tamera’s adoptive father reluctantly allows Tia and her mother to move into his home so the girls can be together. But just because they’re twins doesn’t mean Tia and Tamera are identical in any way other than looks.Tia is intelligent and from inner-city Detroit while Tamera is the boy-crazy twin from the suburbs. This show is a prime example of how twins can still look alike, but like different things.
Even though me and my sister weren’t separated at birth, nor are we identical, we still have our differences that make us our own person. In the show, Tia Landry is honest, responsible, mature, and a straight-A student who graduates from high school at the top of her class; she aspired to go to Harvard but was rejected and attended the University of Michigan. Mostly she and Tamera break the fourth wall to the audience about their everyday day situation. Her main boyfriend is Ray’s mechanic, Tyreke Scott, who later becomes a police escort aka campus security at the University of Michigan. Their relationship started in the fifth season, though they broke up briefly in the sixth season then reunited. Tia’s often involved in Tamera’s schemes, and Tamera sometimes has Tia pose as her. While on the other hand, Tamere Campbell is the total opposite. She is highly impulsive, less intellectual than her sister, and a big fan of Coolio (someone that is mentioned in the show). Mostly she and Tia break the fourth wall to the audience about their everyday day situation. She meets Jordan Bennett, editor of her school’s newspaper, and they start dating midway through the fifth season and their relationship grows stronger in the sixth season. Never afraid to speak her mind, she often voiced her penchant for the shoe brand that is mentioned in the show.
Towards the end of the series, the girls get to meet their biological father Matt Sullivan, a white famous photojournalist who never married their mother, Racelle Gavin, because they never got the chance: she was asked to paint a mural in Florida and he was assigned “the opportunity of a lifetime” in the Middle East; when he left, Racelle told him she’d join him in Tel Aviv but never mentioned her pregnancy, and after 6 months she stopped writing. When she died, Matt wasn’t allowed to see the girls because he couldn’t prove he was their father, and when he searched for them later, he never found them because they had been adopted separately.
To sum everything up, no set of twins are alike. They can be their own self, and that’s okay.
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Twins can experience many things together and grow together. One day you know it, you’re celebrating your first Christmas, to stepping up to middle school. Then before you know it, you’re a college freshman. Even though we were nervous about starting a new environment we had each other, though the whole process.
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Works Cited:
“Sister, Sister.” IMDb, IMDb.com, 1 Apr. 1994, www.imdb.com/title/tt0108927/.
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