Volume 53, Number 19 · November 30, 2006

Parallel Lives

By Frank J. Sulloway
Indivisible by Two: Lives of Extraordinary Twins
by Nancy L. Segal

Harvard University Press, 280 pp., $24.95

Which of us has not wondered how our life might have turned out had certain circumstances been different? Like characters inhabiting parallel universes in science fiction plots, we all live only a tiny fraction of the lives that might have been.



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