We didn’t know whether to call this post “Game of Twins” or “Advantages of Having Another Equal to You”.

Even though we are identical twins, we are distinguishable to those close to us. We have the same traits, but there are physical differences such as a greater or lesser thickness according to the season (we won’t say who is more gruesita!) and our voice timbre is somewhat different.

 

If anything, we’re similar enough to have been through fun situations.

Here are some of them.

How to be in two places at the same time

 

On one occasion, my sister Yuliana was doing a lot of castings for television commercials. Once, she was called by a production house to inform her that she had been selected to do a commercial. She was happy…

But just an hour later, he received another call from another company telling him he had stayed for another commercial. She couldn’t believe so lucky. But happiness turned to anxiety when she learned that both recordings would be made on the same day.

She didn’t want to lose either, so she put out the plan to send me for the second recording. Yes, I am the victim of my sister’s plans.

 

 

I had my doubts, because just that production house knew that Yuliana had a twin. In fact, they expressly told him “Come on. Don’t send your sister.” She said, “Of course I’m going.”

But I agreed and went to the recording, while she went to the first one. At the end of my day, I was congratulated by the director. He said “how good that you came and did not send Yanelia”. I was irritating, because he was talking about me, so I asked him, “What’s wrong with my sister?”

“She’s very shy,” he told me.I know I’m not shy at least no more than Yuliana.

That confirmed to us that a lot of times people say they’re able to differentiate us because we have different characters. But they are almost always confused. People like to say that they identify when we are Yanelia or Yuliana barely knowing each other.

Although for that time that had a positive consequence!

 

You can’t fool Tango

 

My sister Yuliana was practicing Tango strongly, reaching an advanced level. I accompanied her to the gatherings where people gathered to dance and listen to the music immortalized by the “Morocho del Abasto”, the so-called “milongas”.

From so much accompanying her, I got excited and started practicing it as well.

When I felt confident, I went one day alone to the “milonga”. I was approached by a dancer who knew us, but who thought I was my sister Yuliana, and took me out to dance.

In tango as in all ballroom dancing, the man leads the woman. The man makes the woman make certain steps and movements. If the woman does not have a very high level, the man directs her in such a way that only simple steps are taken.

But my partner, an advanced dancer, thought I was Yuliana, another advanced dancer. Since I like challenges, I didn’t tell her it was Yanelia and the man started directing me through the entire repertoire of advanced steps.

I was doing my best to follow him, sometimes not so well…

He asked me “Yuliana, why so tense?” “Yes, I’m very stressed, work…”, I lied.

I didn’t want to tell you who I really was. In the end, the truth was discovered. He was between amused and grieved and I was left with my wounded pride… and blisters on the feet.

 

 

Enjoying the glory of others

 

I was always going to support my sister in her performances on the boards.

After a presentation, she said goodbye. Then the curtain came down and I went backstage to congratulate her.

Along the way, I met people saying to me ” Congratulations on your performance. It’s amazing how you change clothes so fast and look as fresh as a lettuce.”

Meanwhile, my sister was resting after the strenuous performance.

I thanked them… well I felt like a prima donna for a few minutes.

Famous people usually hire doubles to mislead the paparazzi. I think I should charge Yuliana…

But glory comes at a price… I once accompanied my sister to another play. She walked into her dressing room and I was waiting for her to start.

Suddenly, I felt someone take me by the arm and push me “What are you doing here?”. go get dressed!”. Someone from production had mistaken me for my sister (he didn’t know that Yuliana had a twin).

I said no, I was the twin sister. The man, was a little irritated and said “Leave the pod and go get dressed that it’s late!”. Finally, the poor man saw his mistake when everyone present who knew us started laughing and confirmed what he was saying.

 

Instant seduction

 

On one occasion, I was at a bus stop when I left work. Near me, there was a pretty handsome man who was watching me.

I became nervous when she started walking resolutely towards me. He smiled at me and hugged me, “Hello my love, how are you?” he said as he shook my arms.

I realized that it must have been some theater partner of Yuliana.

But I wasn’t really in any hurry to get him out of his mistake. I didn’t want her to go through the embarrassing situation of feeling sorry for being mistaken for being a sister.

So I sacrificed myself and kept hugging him for quite a while. I guess doing good has its trade-offs.

 

Chronicle of a slap announced

 

My sister and I are very close and share everything… except the boyfriends!

We went to a bar to dance. My boyfriend would join us, only he didn’t know Yulia would go.

At some point I went to the bathroom and Yuliana went to the track to dance. Suddenly my sister felt like someone hugging her very tightly from behind in the middle of the track. Yuliana’s first impulse was to turn around and slap the drunk who was passing… To the surprise of both of us, it was my confused boyfriend.

On another occasion, I shared an apartment with my boyfriend. While I was at work, I remembered that I had to do some errands and that I had left certain documents in the apartment. My boyfriend also worked.

As I could not leave my job, I asked Yuliana to come and get the key to the apartment and to please look for the documents.

My dear and helpful sister went to the apartment. He went in and went to the room to get the documents. Suddenly he felt a spand. It was time, if there was a slap. She turned around and slapped him.

My boyfriend, for some reason, was in the house and thought I was back. I think from that time on he took away the desire to “surprise me”.

Conclusions

 

Apparently, many believe that identical twins are the same person in two different bodies or one is the copy of the other.

We are two people, two very different and, at the same time, very similar identities that have their own rich individuality each.

Although each cultivates its own individuality, we have not escaped from going through these anecdotes of “identity confusion”.

Now we just take them with humor and sometimes even encourage them.