They even took vacations at the same Florida beach. Both Jim Lewis and Jim Springer had a son, and –I’m sure you saw this coming-both gave their boy the same name, James Alan (or James Allan in Springer’s case).īoth Jims were heavy smokers, drove the same car (a Chevrolet) and had similar jobs in security (Jim Lewis was a security guard, while Jim Springer had been a deputy sheriff). When this didn’t work out and they divorced, they met (and went on to marry) women named Betty. The first time, they married women named Linda. If their childhoods were uncannily similar, though, then their early adulthoods were truly remarkable.īoth Jims had married twice. From there, though their paths had diverged, they unknowingly forged lives as identical as their DNA.īoth had beloved childhood dogs named Toy, and as schoolchildren, both had a proclivity for math and woodworking but were no great shakes at spelling. Both families knew that the child they adopted had a twin, but did not know what became of them. One of the boys was adopted by the Lewises of Lima, and the other by the Springers of Piqua. The two would grow up only 40 miles apart from each other, and go on to live lives that were spookily similar. Both men came to be named Jim for short, and that was just the start of it. So, nature versus nurture debaters, what do you make of this one? When two twin boys were put up for adoption in 1940, at only three weeks old, their adoptive parents coincidentally named them both James. When they got to talking, they found that they had lived identical lives! So Far Apart, Yet Always Together The Jim Twins of Ohio were reunited at age 39, after being separated at birth.
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