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“Say a quick hello to your father, girls Then wash up for supper”

Ah the parlor door, a happy little angel of seven in a red-and-white gingha of strawberry short-cake in an identical outfit

Those dresses were the only thing identical about the girls Although they were twins, they barely looked like sisters

Amelia was

small, with fine, dark, beautiful features exactly like her mother’s Alice was taller, blond and lanky, and had the h I will say that our family looks had settled better on her face than on mine

“Reain which one of you is which,” I said with a stern expression

“Daddy, you know,” said Aht

“No, I’ve cootten How am I supposed to be able to tell the difference when you look exactly alike?”

To Amelia, that was a scream

Meg walked into the front hall “Coirls You heard what I said”

I pointed at Alice “Oh, now I re at Amelia, “So that means you must be Alice”

“And youat her own cleverness Was there any sweeter sound in the world?

I knelt down and kissed her, then her sister, and gathered the

“Where have you two been causing trouble today?”

In a ridiculously loud stage whisper Alice said: “We’re not allowed to say… but ere hiding in church”