Thereafter, for a while, the Detweiler Twins were mythic outlaws on the order of the James Brothers or Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, a movie that happened to be showing in theaters at the time. It brought us even closer together, which is the point I’m trying to make: how close we were, how much we loved and needed each other.
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We used to dream about each other, we were so close. One of us would have a dream in which the other would say something funny, and we’d wake up with identical tears of laughter in our eyes. It happened all the time. Sometimes it happened to both of us on the same night. We’d both have the same or a similar dream. The next day we’d call each other.
“Did you dream about me last night, Greg?”
“Did you dream about me last night, Stew?”
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