This story is creepy as hell! Though A Must Read
""June and Jennifer Gibbons were identical twins and the only Black
girls in their small Welsh town, which made them feel ostracized at a
very early age.
As they grew, they continued to move inward toward each other and away
from the rest of the world; so much so that they were dubbed
'#theSilentTwins,' as the Gibbons twins refused to speak. Doctors
diagnosed them as "elected mutes.'
At home, however, they spoke to each other in a shorthand language. Their mother noticed
that her daughters 'had distorted their speech into a secret code only
they could understand.' -The Gibbons twins also insisted on mirroring
each other’s every movement.
Therapist, Cathy Arthur, studied their mirroring and was fascinated. She
took them horseback riding to encourage individual movement; but if one
fell off the horse, the other would immediately follow. -Incredibly
they were both avid writers from an early age.
Both girls kept journals full of individual feelings of being tormented
by each other. -True to their stories, the twins started to take up
crime.
They turned to theft and arson because, as June wrote, 'No friends.
Nothing else to do. Nothing to fill the cold hour.' -It was at this time
that they began attacking each other, another attempt to fill the 'cold
hour.'
In court they were diagnosed as psychopaths and sent to the infamous
Broadmoor, a psychiatric hospital, when they were 18. -When they turned
29, the Gibbons twins made a pact that one of them had to die.
Marjorie Wallace, a reporter who befriended the girls and eventually
penned a biography about them, visited them at this time. Jennifer told
her point-blank: 'Marjorie, I’m going to die. We’ve decided.'
On the day of their release from Broadmoor, Jennifer suddenly died due
to an inflammation of her heart. The exact cause remains unknown.""
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