The Silent Twins :

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  Today I will be talking about the "Silent Twins". This is a true story.

Caution: If you are sensitive to read such topics, I recommend you to not read the blog. Readers are advised. 

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Known as "Silent Twins", June and Jennifer Gibbons were born on April 11, 1963, in  Barbados, and moved to a small town in Wales soon after.

The girls refused to talk to anyone, but they only spoke to each other in their self made language and sometimes with their younger sister Rose. The girls were frequently bullied because of their race. The bullying was to the point that the school administrators let them leave early to avoid torment, which didn't work, and the girls eventually withdrew for school and, the society.

In order, to socialize them they were sent to two separate boarding schools (making the things worst). They became catatonic and were reunited with one other. 

The girls started writing and had their individual diaries, their self-published novels consisted of extreme violence due to which they couldn't gain any attention in the literary world. Instead, they turned into criminals for excitement and attention. 

In 1982, the court sentenced them on sixteen counts of burglary and arson to Broadmoor Hospital, [a high-security hospital for the criminally insane], Broadmoor was home to many infamous killers, including Ronnie Kray and the Yorkshire Ripper.

While at Broadmoore, the girls were kept in separate wards but would spend their social time together. Nurses would often find them sitting in their separate rooms, sitting in the same poses. The girls often attempted suicide or would attack each other, they would take turns eating one day one of the twins would eat, the next day the other twin would eat.

June and Jennifer had a strange, unhealthy co-independent relationship. They couldn't exist apart, but they couldn't live a normal life together. Jennifer, ten minutes younger, thought June was better looking and intelligent, June sensed this and wrote in her diary: "She wants us to be equal. There is a murderous gleam in her eye. Dear Lord, I am scared of her. She is not normal... someone is driving her insane. It is me." She described Jennifer as "the dark sister robbing me of sunlight." 

In her own journal, Jennifer wrote: " We have become fatal enemies in each other's eyes. We feel the irritating deadly rays come out of our bodies, stinging each other's skin. I say to myself, can I get rid of my own shadow, impossible or not possible? Without any shadow, would I die? Without my shadow, would I gain life, be free, or left to die? Without my shadow, which I identify with a face of misery, deception, and murder." 

Journalist Majorie Wallace, who wrote an extensive biography on girls, was having tea with the twins when Jennifer said she was going to have to die. When asked why she responded, "Because we decided." 

In 1993, the girls were finally granted a transfer to a more open Caswell clinic. Upon arriving there, Jennifer looked ill. She was rushed to the hospital and was pronounced dead of acute myocarditis, a sudden lethal inflammation of the heart.

Wallace said that, after her sister's death, June was both grief-stricken and relieved. June now lives a so-called "normal" life. She speaks normally, lives independently, and looks to put the past behind her.

Bye...Bye...💗💗💗