Allyson Walsh and Adele Nichols grew up on a farm in Gambrills, across the road from the former Naval Academy dairy farm. They are a rare subset of identical twins known as mirror twins, mirror images of each other. Adele is left-handed. Allyson, the older by five minutes, is right-handed.
"Our parents didn't know they were having twins. The doctor didn't hear the second heartbeat," said Allyson, who lives in...
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