Julie and Judy were indistinguishable from each other for 80 years.
Usually, you can tell twins apart, but these two were exactly alike.
Including their mental retardation. So severe, their father walked out when they were 5 and their mother dead from suicide on their 10th birthday.
They were dressed in the same clothes, played with the same toys, and babbled the same babble.
They spent their lives in institutions together until one died.
Nobody knew which one, so they tossed a coin, declared Judy dead, and life went on as normal, or what passes for it for a retard.
The Retarded Twins
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wow. still can’t get over how offensive the last line is. do you think that people with mental retardation have lives not worth living? shame on you.
Perhaps, for a moment, you might ponder that the story was written to demonstrate the horrifying lack of compassion our health care bureaucracy has for people, capable or not?
Every story, so matter how callous or fanciful, has an underlying message. All four years of them.
Maybe you see it. Maybe you don’t.