Doctor tadam bowen redding7/10/2023 The couple had an impressive recall for bygone events. But the more I contemplated it, the more difficult it was to be sure if I was recalling the man from my childhood or from Friday night in Aulay’s. Not only could I not remember the twins, but as I thought about it over the subsequent days, the only part of the story which seemed familiar was the woman’s husband, who I felt as though I recognised due to his distinct facial tick, which resembled the actions of a man who every so often remembers that there is a chunk of liquorice stuck to the roof of his mouth. While you could ask him where any Bob Dylan LP from the sixties was in the house and he would know exactly where to find it, there would have been no hope with a photograph. Since mum was no longer around, dad was the only person I could ask about the whereabouts of any school photographs in the family home. The mother vowed to return home that night and seek out the traditional first day of school photographs she would have taken to mark the event, and I agreed that I would do the same and we would bring our findings back to the pub the following week. We all played amongst the same group of children in the neighbourhood, attended the same birthday parties and quite possibly even went to the same nursery. After all, how many times through life does a person encounter identical twins? And yet right there, sitting at the opposite side of the table from me in the pub, was the mother of two such people who not only did I begin my journey into education at the same time as, but who it emerged grew up in Burnbank, around the corner from our home on Dunollie Road. I felt quite a deep sense of guilt that I couldn’t remember the children. Columba’s primary school as her two sons, at least until the family left for Africa partway through primary two. It was a certainty that I was in the same class at St. I had no recollection of going to school with identical twins, but as the wife of the couple went through a mental checklist of the sort of questions one might be asked when you have forgotten your password for the website of an online retailer, the evidence became indisputable.
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