The twin connection
My husband and I went out to dinner the other night with our friends Suzi and her husband to celebrate Suzi’s 40th birthday (yay, Suzi!) One of the things I love about Suzi is she is as much of a chocolate fiend as I am. She bakes this killer (could be literally) dessert called Baby Cakes, which are like brownies on the outside, hot fudge on the inside, and just one will keep you up until the wee hours of the morning trying to process all that sugar and caffeine and bliss through your system. Ahhhh.
One of the things I love about Suzi–besides the fact that she always see things on Lost that I miss (like during one of Sayid’s flashbacks, when he’s talking to a U.S. army officer, and the officer pulls out a photo of his daughter, and it turns out to be Kate–I totally missed that)–is that Suzi is devoted enough to dessert to plan her evening around it. So we took her out to dinner at a great Malaysian place, but the real point was to be near this other restaurant where they serve a dessert called The Bars of Sin. Imagine it: chocolate mousse between two crisp chocolate wafers, the whole thing coated in fudge, and served with Bailey’s Irish Cream-flavored ice cream.
Call the paramedics.
Anyway, one of the other reasons we love Suzi is because she always has such interesting stories to tell, and that night was no different. She knows I’ve been researching near-death and extra-sensory experiences for a novel I’m writing, and so she laid this one on me:
She has a friend whose father is a twin. He’s also a gruff, angry SOB whose only emotions seem to be rage and sarcasm. So one night the family is sitting around the table having dinner, and suddenly the father bursts into tears. I mean he’s sobbing. And he can’t explain why. His wife and children are completely astonished, but the dad himself is pretty freaked out, too.
Turns out at that exact same moment, thousands of miles away, his twin brother has just learned that the twin’s son was killed in an accident. That moment of shock and grief was transmitted via twin waves.
Don’t things like that give you chills?
If anyone else has any stories like that, let’s hear them. I’ll be happy to post them.