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freckleslikestars · 1 year ago

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something I'll never not find hilarious is that my brother and I really don't look alike: he's got a much darker, olive skintone compared to my pasty white that looks like the time I tried to make gluten free vegan pastry and it, uhhh...it was colourless, we've got different face shapes, different eyes, different noses, different body types, just generally very different in appearance.

But for about a year when I was fourteen and he was twelve, we had the same shoulder-length dark, slightly wavy hair and were about the same height, and at least twice a month people would ask us if we were twins, which I think we both found equal parts hilarious and infuriating.

#i don't think it helped that I literally had no friends at the time so just hung out with him a lot #which meant we developed this kind of shorthand and codewords and stuff #I'd honestly say that and when I was between the ages of 17 and 19 are the closest we've ever been #we just spent a lot of time together and they were kind of when our parent's marriage was at it's worst #but yeah for a year everyone we didn't know seemed to think we were twins #for no other reason than we were about the same height and had really similar hair cuts #(in that we both cut our hair ourselves to about the same length. independently I would like to point out)#but i mean really I take after the Scottish half of the family and work nights so literally don't go in the sun unless I have to #and then it's with copious sunscreen #and he gets asked on a regular basis if he's Mediterranean or latino #which. he's not.#but like I'll never forget when we went to Italy and he was sat on some steps he wasn't meant to be #and the police were kind of walking along asking all the tourists to move off the steps in English and then they get to my brother and ask #him to get of the steps in Italian and he just kinda looked at them blankly. at which point they tried Spanish and french before english #which he finally reacted to #it does kind of help that he blends in everywhere. like he's got this very relaxed energy that means he kind of just fits in with everyone

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