Ah Mary, you may live to regret the offer of help! :lol: But, first I'll pick the brains and skills of my neighbour and friend, who I get together with on Tuesdays. She's amazing! I keep telling myself I'm not going to get addicted, as I love doing so many other things, but...
My identical twin and I are 57 (going on 58). She has been one of my greatest gifts from God. Though we don't 'crowd' each others lives, we are very close. (She and her husband are in the San Diego area at the moment.) We no longer are as identical looking as we were, life experiences, and different taste in hair styles etc...mostly. Though when we put an effort into it we can look like we are suppose to be identical. There are still people who will see us separately and not be sure who we are...
Have you ever heard of Twinsburg, Ohio (southeast of Cleveland)? They have a twin festival every year on the first weekend of August. Mel and I have gone twice now and love it. Many people go every year and one year one set of identical twins married another set of identical twins at the festival, as it was where they met growing up.... Really worth the trip. You come away expecting to see doubles everywhere. :lol: They have a website which you could probably google. It is far enough away that we can't go often, but we've met other twins that would only miss it they had no choice. Amazingly you can make life-long friends who look forward to seeing you each time. Even not going often we look forward to seeing the friends we made, the next time we go. Thousands of twins, identical and fraternal, triplets, quads etc... attend. Almost all of them will dress the same that day... boy/girl will where the same t-shirt or colour t-shirts... if you see what I mean. There is a parade leading to the festival grounds and then they have entertainment, food convienners, arts and crafts, science and business kiosk where twins (identical) are paid to fill out questionaires (Melanie and I got $15.00 each for about 15 minutes of our time... it was fun. There are other opportunaties but as we are Canadians, and also don't live close, we are excluded; some would take place over months. There are also rides and of course an amazing fireworks display! As you can see it is a well organized annual event. If you were ever tempted, there are also a lot of quilting place among the Amish in the area...
Mo