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16 Responses to “Folks Gone Crazy”

1. 1. udi (72 Comments) | January 17th, 2008 at 6:52 pm

   You would be very surprised to learn that back in the days, adoption records were some of the most disorganized records. There have been incidences where people dont even know their actual brithdates. if adopted as a baby, an estimate is done. Afte watching this storo beign explained on TV, the two were not even aware of even which hospital they were born in.

2. 2. Tim Woodall (1 Comments) | January 17th, 2008 at 8:34 pm

   This is rather an ignorant take on the story as the first comment has indicated. Both people in this case were adopted at birth therefore would not have known their real parents or indeed place of birth. They had no idea whatsoever and are apparently devastated to find out their true identities. So to take the p**s out of them is pretty heartless.
   That said, your posts on Kenya have been excellent and I have appreciated your insights. Keep us updated.

3. 3. JKE (52 Comments) | January 17th, 2008 at 10:39 pm

   Ati that “twins story” is a hoax to me, an urban legend like so many others.

4. 4. I (119 Comments) | January 17th, 2008 at 11:44 pm

   ha ha ha.. thats hilarious!! on the real..
   the conversation outlined above must have come up!! how couldnt it?!!?

5. 5. aegeus (79 Comments) | January 18th, 2008 at 1:01 am

   number two is my choice on this one…

6. 6. Half n Half (12 Comments) | January 18th, 2008 at 2:16 am

   Publicity! Am just saying! If it happened to you would you tell any one let alone go on international TV to say it?

7. 7. AtSanity'sEdge (34 Comments) | January 18th, 2008 at 12:45 pm

   This story may as well be a hoax, but if it’s not, I’d reserve my judgment pending the revelation of finer details. I’m with Tim Woodall on this matter since so much is still unknown [at least to me].

   For one, Were their true birth details obscured leaving each adoptive family with a different set of data on their adopted child’s true birth details?
   Was the accurate information there to be found if the twins had found it necessary investigate their true origins?
   If only some of their birth data was available to them, was it enough to warrant an investigation or was it just enough to further affirm their attraction to each other?
   Perhaps their birth parents never wanted to be identified and requested that the information be hidden from the children [as a pre-condition for the adoption?] or perhaps it was a policy, written or unwritten.
   Perhaps the adoption record-keeping of the day was so messed up that the twins, had they sought any information would have or did run into brick walls at every turn.
   Perhaps most or all data was lost altogether and all they had was the information their respective adoptive parents had which brings me back to the initial question…was it accurate?

   The only detail that would lead me to conclude that they knowingly entered into an incestuous, and, therefore, illegal marriage would be if they knew of their birth parents beforehand and so far, nothing suggests that they did.

   The twins could have easily mistaken the inevitable bond between all twins for true attraction/love between a man and a woman. They didn’t have all the information necessary to distinguish it from typical sibling love or for that matter the tabooed inappropriate relationships between siblings. I shudder to think that they indeed consummated their relationship; they probably did. They were strangers to each other and who doesn’t yearn that natural and unmistakable, yet unforced attraction to somebody you just met [a non-sibling, of course, in our case]?

   I understand where the idea of them being dumb as a pile of rocks can be derived from but I’ll judge them less harshly than most people would if I do at all. It may be gross but it’s still quite sad that each may have thought that they had finally found that oh so elusive soul mate only to discover that…well, you know the rest.

   The conversation between your none the wiser couple in love, Emilio and Lucy, while rather amusing [reminds me of the the dialog in "The Concubine"] only reveals a set of coincidences that could happen to anyone.For those of us who aren’t one of a set twins or multiples, do we still not find it interesting to find out that someone we just officially met, like ourselves, was born on the same day, of the same month, of the same year, in the same hospital? We may have even find that we have a similar set of mutual friends and an insatiable appetite for greasy chips and Coke baridi.
   It’s a thick slice of coincidence, thickly coated with insufficient information, with an optional light sprinkle of could-it-be-but-I-don’t-want-to-know… It still makes for a juicy story though.

   I think that’s all those two had based on the amount of information I’ve gathered.

8. 8. donworry (50 Comments) | January 18th, 2008 at 2:39 pm

   The actual story itself was quite moving and I felt for the couple. The other interesting thing was a comment from a psychologist who said that unbeknown to them they must have fallen for each other ‘due to the dynamic attraction that twins have’.

   One can clearly imagine the set of circumstances that would lead to something like this. It is something that I have idly wondered about.

   check it out: You are a young professional and you’re out of town on business in some far away place…Bujumbura, Tunis, Windhoek, Lagos.. your choice. It’s friday night now and after a hard week’s graft you join your colleagues downtown at some fashionable nightspot where you dance the night away. Boy meets gal or vice versa; you chat and say little nice things, the eyelids flutter and the adam’s apple pops up and down and there’s a suggestion that he may have a hidden gun.

   Anyways you’re not that type of girl/boy and you never surrender on the first date especially unsafely and its too late in the night; Ok you get away with one really awesome snog….nobody has spoken birthdays yet, in some cultures it is rude to ask birthdays of a woman who is clearly ‘over18′

   …so what happens when one of the parties discovers that a kenyan soldier whilst posted abroad sired a child whom he never saw before he returned home? The solja subsequently married, settled and had more kids. His life in far-flung corners is now well and truly forgotten in the past….. until he receives a letter from son/daughter saying….”I have found someone that I want to spend the rest of my life with…”

   far fetched?

9. 9. udi (72 Comments) | January 18th, 2008 at 8:17 pm

   @donworry- that is not farfetched. that shit happened in Kenya a few years back. Somad it on those Wednesday magazines. Kwanza mbele Kenyan zaks are to known to have some clandes on the side, you never jua. LOL

10. 10. brainz (52 Comments) | January 21st, 2008 at 9:50 am

    hahahahaha ati form 16A

    ROTFLMBAOL.

    u’ve made my day.

11. 11. prousette (133 Comments) | January 21st, 2008 at 10:14 am

    lol @my most desperate of all housewives, how now?

12. 12. Olive (7 Comments) | January 21st, 2008 at 2:51 pm

    LOL!! @ Form 16A and ‘Balm of my soul’ - hilarious dialogue

13. 13. Jac (1 Comments) | January 23rd, 2008 at 1:40 am

    Bwahahahaha!!!!!

    ‘Balm of my soul’, ‘wind beneath my wings’, ‘the pot in my potato’ (yikes!), ‘my most desperate of all housewives’, ‘form 16A’….

    You’ve made me ROFL, my head hurts. Please tell me you are not so cheesy as to use these terms of endearment. So funny!

    Ahem (serious head on now..).. Those poor twins… surely with matching DOBs and TOBs they may well have sussed something wasn’t right. Unless the adoptive parents changed dates and stuff? I get shivers just thinking about it - siblings, having nookie - uuuurrrggghhhhhh!

14. 14. denyse (1 Comments) | January 23rd, 2008 at 10:31 am

    i’m with M on this one…
    nonsense to the core. yes i feel bad for them (not that bad)for the discovery but eh…things in love are not so thick that you turn to your brother…yaani blood brother!

15. 15. Quizzical (2 Comments) | January 27th, 2008 at 6:40 am

    Surely it raises more fundamental questions about the nature of the relationship between twins which transcends our understanding - a deep psychological/emotional link……rather than concentrating on the ‘taking the p**s angle?

16. 16. fred (1 Comments) | February 5th, 2008 at 12:03 pm

    Thats quit hilarious,n more so funny,but guess what ur relative is more cute n sweeter thts why they discovered too long after marriage,if they av a child 2gether would they cal it guinea child or twinner.jst a thought.
    http://www.raia.co.ke