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Viola bernard told both parents these twins cannot meet and do not tell them that they are twins, so the parents had to live with this difficult important knowledge and never tell their child. both girls were dancers and when they met, they were 17 and they met secretly without their parents' knowledge. i saw lori crossing the street, and ijust saw the way- she walked and the big smile on her face. - yeah, then we hugged. it was quite an experience. it was surreal. i felt that i was staring at myself in the mirror. it was beautiful, i was in such awe of the whole thing. there were so many simi...

We met with dr viola bernard to find out why they split us and there were many, many different tests given to them. identical twins share all their genes having split from a single fertilised egg in the first two weeks after conception. fraternal twins share half their genes on average. genetics is not everything, but it does explain a great deal of why we differ, one person to another. we find that height and weight have substantial genetic components. we find that general intelligence has a substantial genetic component, a little less than some of the physical

I wondered what had been the outcome of the study. the years went by and i never heard of any reports. that was surprising, because this was such a unique study. i became an investigative reporter, essentially. and began to track down people who knew anything about the study. eventually, perlman would meet psychologist and twin specialist, segal, and together they would confront a 91—year—old neubauer at his office on madison avenue. nancy had asked, how they could justify separating these twins without informing the parents? and he defended the practice, saying that, again, it was viola b...

Horrible what they did. we met with dr viola bernard to find out why they split us up and she just kept saying, they were satisfying, you know, two families who could not have children. we thought it would be better when it comes to competition, for twins to have their own identity. and not grow up together. parents would dress them alike and treat them exactly the same and in her terminology, shared an ego. so she did not think that was very healthy. they said it was backed by the child development literature at the time, but i can tell you, honestly, there is no such child development litera...

Lawrence perlman resigned from the programme after just 10 months. i wondered what had been the outcome of the study. the years went by and i never heard of any reports. that was surprising, because this was such a unique study. i became an investigative reporter, essentially. and began to track down people who knew anything about the study. eventually, perlman would meet psychologist and twin specialist, segal, and together they would confront a 91—year—old neubauer at his office on madison avenue. nancy had asked, how they could justify separating these twins without informing the parent...