Maybe around a corner, you will meet another "you"

Earl 2022-10-18 17:59:07

At first, I thought it was a big reunion story of triplets separated from each other and found each other and lived happily together.

It was only halfway through that I realized that the third brother had not appeared for a long time, and then I realized that this story turned out to be depressing.

Although the three brothers have been separated since childhood, they have one striking similarity after another. Their gestures, sitting postures, and every move are very similar. They even smoke the same cigarettes. They have all been wrestlers. They also have a 21 Year-old adopted sister... They became famous, appeared on one show after another, and everyone was happy to find the common ground between these three boys who had been separated for 19 years but were completely similar. Even the triplets themselves are constantly emphasizing their commonalities to themselves, but their differences are slowly manifested in the process of living together.

The three of them were adopted by blue-collar families, middle-class families, and wealthy families. The three families are very different, especially when it comes to home education…

They did have a good time together, but after a long time, everything was different from the beginning...and then some people left...some people left this life, some people left this world...this is undoubtedly a tragedy.

They never gave up looking for the truth, the truth of being separated, the truth that their adoptive parents were concealed...

They were used as guinea pigs and placed in different environments to study their growth. Their 21-year-old adopted sisters were also arranged to study the educational methods of their adoptive parents, so as to continue the study of triplets smoothly and ensure the difference in their growing environment.

And such "guinea pigs" are far more than the couples we know so far. Their biological parents suffer from certain mental illnesses, and these separated children also have more or less psychological problems. Problems, such as a pair of separated twin sisters who both suffered from depression.

The archives of the research were sealed until 2066, and this research started in 1960. Most of the research subjects may not know when they were alive. Maybe there is a twin stranger somewhere in the world...

The research assistants at the time said their aim was to study nature and nurture. So is the innate triumphing over the acquired, or is the acquired overpowering the innate? No one can know the answer. People are complicated, why am I me? This question may never be answered. Harming others and changing their lives in order to find the answer is a real moral decline and a distortion of human nature.

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Three Identical Strangers quotes

  • Robert Shafran: When I tell people my story, they don't believe it. I guess I wouldn't believe the story if someone else were telling it, but , I'm telling it and it's true, every word of it.