The Silent twins
Twins... Every time I hear this word I always think about how confused I get when identifying them and the special bond they share. It’s a very fascinating phenomenon, something very difficult to comprehend. It’s speculated that they have a sixth sense when it comes to their twin. What really is this bond? And how deep can this go? A BOND between twins is a special one - but the one between June and Jennifer Gibbons must surely be one like few others, to the outside world they were mute and mysterious. For most of their lives together, they refused to speak to anyone but each other—a refusal that led to their emotional exile, their institutionalization, and, eventually, to the misguided appropriation of their story. The vow of silence: June and Jennifer Gibbons This extraordinary story begins when Jennifer and June were born on April 11, 1963 to Gloria and Aubrey Gibbons. Their parents had immigrated to the United Kingdom from Barbados three years earlier, and their father became a te...