The twinsNot a year had passed between Matilde and Marco’s first meeting when she discovered she was pregnant. Another surprise had come when the ob-gyn had announced that they were expecting not one, but two babies: two identical female twins. The girls were physically very similar to their mother, with the same features and blond hair. The only difference was the color of their eyes, blue like Marco’s. Also, they were more slender, partly thanks to the many years of swimming practice Matilde had imposed upon them until their third year of high school, when combining sports and school had become too difficult.
The girls so resembled each other that their own parents sometimes found it difficult to tell them apart; only a dark spot just under Alessandra’s hairline distinguished her from h
