A friend of mine is a twin. An identical twin, in appearance at least. This friend found out before christmas that her partner has lung cancer. He's going through Chemo although I'm not sure what the prognosis is.
After showing some concerning symptoms, she went to the doctor herself to find that she has early stage breast cancer.
Naturally, she told her twin, foolishly thinking she'd get some support from this woman who I've already come to see as absolutely loathesome as a result of some previous actions I won't go into here (although I will say that she once sent a text saying "Well why don't you just go and kill yourself then"). Do you know what the twin said?
"Well, at least you'll be able to die together."
My friend was telling me this on our way to dinner. My mouth fell open. It takes a lot to shock me. I've seen all sorts of spitefulness in my time, but nothing like that. All I could say was, "Fucking hell. Who says things like that?" and finally, "Do you know, there's a special place in hell for people who say things like that."
Makes me happy to be an only child. And that I'm a lot less of a bitch than I thought.
