Volume 32, Number 3 · February 28, 1985

The Twins

By Oliver Sacks

When I first met the twins, John and Michael, in 1966 in a state hospital, they were already well known. They had been on radio and television, and made the subject of detailed scientific and popular reports.[1] They had even, I suspected, found their way into science fiction, a little 'fictionalized,' but essentially as portrayed in the accounts that had been published.[2]



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