If you were to meet...
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If you were to meet the sisters Jane and Jean in the hallway of the nursing home in which they lived you would have been unable to tell them apart. Both had long gray hair that they wore in tight buns high up on their heads. Their brown eyes were deeply set under thick bushy eyebrows and they had long thin noses. The large earrings that they always wore offset the angular lines of their face. Jane and Jean developed rheumatoid arthritis when they were children. Now, as adults, they lived in constant pain. Their swollen knuckles made it difficult to hold anything in their hands, and their inflamed knees, bowed backs, and swollen feet, necessitated the use of walkers.
As children, the sisters had been beaten regularly by their alcoholic father. They lived from one day to the next scrounging food, clothes and furniture. They had considered themselves fortunate if they were able to have one warm bath a month.
So they were alike in many ways, but if you spent time talking with them, you would soon be able to them apart. Jane focused on what had been, while Jean focused on what was to come.
As children, the sisters had been beaten regularly by their alcoholic father. They lived from one day to the next scrounging food, clothes and furniture. They had considered themselves fortunate if they were able to have one warm bath a month.
So they were alike in many ways, but if you spent time talking with them, you would soon be able to them apart. Jane focused on what had been, while Jean focused on what was to come.
