Harper Twins

We don't have a lot of twins here in Harper. In fact, all the ones we had have moved off to other locations with the exception of Ricky Ronald and Dicky Donald Smith. I have known them since they were boys and the thing that stands out about them is how different they are from one another. When they were little their mother dressed them the same and fitted their bedrooms with twin beds. Everything they had was in duplicate: bicycles, bb guns, footballs, etc. Where you saw one you saw the other, that is until they graduated from high school. Then they took different roads. R.R. went off to college, D.D. took a job down at the feed mill loading trucks. R.R. married his high school sweetheart and they are still married today. D.D. is now on his fourth wife and from what I here they aren't getting on too well. R.R. lives in a small house but it is always neat as a pin. D.D.'s place is about to fall in. The front porch is covered with old appliances and there are two dead cars in the front yard. You rarely see them together but when you do the difference really stands out. It used to be hard to tell them apart, not so much anymore.

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