> I think I've mentioned this before, but when I
> was about five and my brother was two, folks
> thought that he was a girl because of his long,
> wispy hair and that I was a boy because I
> always wore pants and I had sort of a
> long "muffin" type hairdo (more of a very short
> bob, really). Our voices also sounded
> *exactly* alike. We used to have great fun
> fooling Mom about which of us was talking.

Before we moved a few years ago, we had these neighbors a few houses down. They had two children, Natalie and Tyler (Natalie was the older). They both looked virtually identical, although it was easy to tell them apart because somehow, despite looking precisely the same, Natalie managed to look like a girl and Tyler looked like a boy. However, their voices were EXACTLY the same. It was WEIRD. Now that I think of it, so were they. And that voice, their identical voice, was so creepy. It didn't seem like it to me then --- it was just their voice --- but it stuck with me and I can still hear it now and it's creeping me out.

-Eric Sleator
Wed 10 Apr A.D. 2002