Some people have an identical twin sister and other people have a sister eight years their senior that looks exactly the same as they do. It's a rather shocking experience to know what you'll look like in a decade. But the similarities don't stop with our looks. We have discovered that we are essentially carbon copies of one another. One day I even looked in the mirror and thought, "Hey I look like Jess today." So I sent her the above picture. She immediately responded with the second picture. Mocking my facial expression and the angle I used. But really. Our face shapes are nearly identical.

Continuing on with the carbon copy idea, our laughs are identical. She physically shivers because she gets creeped out from my laugh. She once said that it was so similar that she felt like she was listening to herself laugh. She promptly excused herself from the room and said that she had to find somebody less similar to her.

Partially because she helped to raise me, we also have similar taste in almost everything that we watch. We've finished Doctor Who and can quote it back and forth, we'll turn on Star Trek if we're both in the room. And if she's even slightly intoxicated, I know now exactly which Star Trek Voyager episode to turn on.

We also have an affinity for food (check out Gaining 20 pounds in a month). Unfortunately, our bodies don't have the most positive response when we decide to eat Chinese food at two in the morning. At one point my heart burn was so horrible that I called her sobbing and she laughed on the other end and advised, "As soon as you're 20, NEVER eat fried food past 2a.m." She has the wisdom of the gods when it comes to preventing future heart burn. But could I ever really skip eating fries at three in the morning with my roommate?

We laugh at the same things, enjoy the same moments and we're constantly mistaken for one another. We turn around for the other one's name because we know they just mistook us for the other. Our liberal fire only encourages the other's ranting and we're able to call each other out on anything immature that we do.

Having a twin with ten extra years of life experience is an eternally useful thing to have. And I wouldn't trade her for anything.