My Twin

Part of the reason I am going home to visit this weekend is because of my twin, Ashanti. The rock star that she is, she is completing her law degree at Michigan, and is actually interning in South Africa in the fall. She is in SC for the month of May to visit home before she leaves. Hence, I have to track her down before she leaves the country.

Ashanti is more than deserving of her own blog post for a number of reasons, not the least of which is that she has known me since 6th grade. I am pretty sure that no one should be friends that long, especially not us. However, we still are, even though we are living pretty far apart at the moment. We are twins because we share a birthday (and here she would scream that I am older by 3 hours...there, I beat you to it). We also happened to grow up in the same neighborhood.

However, we like to say we are twins more for the reaction than the reality of it. It got us some pretty good stares when we announced it at places like her first step show as a Sigma Gamma Rho. Of course, we are no strangers to odd stares when we are together. We just learned to embrace it, and occasionally go out of our ways to invoke them...ha. Ashanti also knows more about me than anyone ever, ever should. Want an embarrassing story? Just ask her. I know she would be happy to give it to you, although not without knowing I have one to return just as quickly.

Despite her enthusiasm to call me out, I love my twin. She is someone I can go months without talking to (although we are getting better about that) and still pick up the phone picking up right where we left off. We always swore we would get out of SC (well, more specifically Rock Hill), and we did. And, she is pretty much amazing! We always have a good time together, and who knows where we will end up next. (Philly or DC, right?) Crazy schemes in middle school, being nerds in high school, ridiculous nights out in Columbia, having whole conversations without words, long phone calls catching up...oh the times we have had...13 years is a long time, 'Shanti! Here's to 13 more!

And seriously...why do I not have any pictures of us??

Sidenote: I realized today that someone saying something nice about what you have done means so much more than getting an award for it. ^_^