William got in touch with an aunt, who told him that, yes, he had been sent to a hospital in Bogotá right after he was born. With the sound turned off, the nervous chatter muted, the video captures Jorge and William engaging in what looks like some kind of a highly choreographed, ritualized pantomime. ... if Jorge Polanco would be their opening day shortstop, ... Tigers have castro who looks good and is 23 at short. So he dodged and evaded whenever the subject of travel time came up. Jorge Enrique Bernal Castro and William Cañas Velasco. He stood by the kitchen counter, keeping her company as she worked. His foot had sunk deep in the mud. He did not say what that would mean: that either he or Carlos was born to another mother. As famous as his twin sons Julián and Joaquin Castro are, their father Jesse Guzman wouldn’t be widely recognized. Carlos felt as though Jorge dismissed his concerns; Jorge felt frustrated that nothing he said could assuage Carlos’s sense of isolation. High School: La Cueva HS (Albuquerque, NM) School: University of New Mexico (Albuquerque, NM) He couldn’t make sense of any of it. Then, while his brothers dozed, he wandered into the kitchen, where Ana, a tiny woman — he had her giggle, he was told, although he never heard it that way himself — was cleaning a sheep’s head she would cook for dinner that night. Galton, who was Darwin’s cousin, is at least as well known for coining the term ‘‘eugenics’’ as he is for his innovative analysis of twins (having concluded, partly from his research, that healthy, intelligent people should be given incentives to breed more). But Segal considered the young men’s story a case history that might provoke further research, inspiring others to seek out more examples of twins reared apart with significantly different upbringings, whatever they were. Castro is of Mexican descent. But Carlos was not falling. Over the course of the week that the young men spent on Segal’s questionnaires, they looked back at the past that helped make them who they were. Laura was baffled: Why was Jorge pretending to be someone else? Though the Padres ultimately won the game by seven runs, it … Jorge decided he would try to keep the mood light. The twins knew the research would require them to submit, over the course of a week in March, to several probing interviews, individually and in pairs, as well as hours holed up in a conference room filling out questionnaires. ‘‘You know, you’ve worked so much your whole life,’’ Carlos told her. ‘‘No, it’s Jorge — I know him,’’ Laura said. Locals like to get on their bellies, inch their way up to its rim and peer down into the abyss. ‘‘Stop annoying me,’’ Carlos told him. He hoped that things would sort themselves out, but more than that, he could not bring himself to leave: Leaving meant he had given up. whereas Jorge and William were the strongest. Jorge followed him, saying things that Carlos knew were meant to make him feel better — no matter what, even if one of us was exchanged, we’re still brothers — but that made him feel only more isolated. This team (the 2017 Minnesota Twins) has remained optimistic and resilient. Draft: Drafted by the Minnesota Twins in the 9th round of the 2013 MLB June Amateur Draft from University of New Mexico (Albuquerque, NM). Minnesota signed Castro to … He managed to pass the test, but his score was low — eight months of part-time cramming could not make up for all those years of lost schooling. He packed up, left Bogotá and took a long bus ride to the barracks where the leadership course was being offered. Like members of any family, they might drift and then regroup, or find themselves falling back on the deep comfort of their particular bonds. Trivia. His scientific successor, Hermann Werner Siemens, a German dermatologist, in the early 1920s conducted the first studies of twins that bear remarkable similarity to those still conducted today. Carlos and Wilber were cautious, convinced that no one should pursue the matter any further — who knew what trouble these people could bring. This question only caused Carlos to lose his patience, so Jorge finally stopped beating around the bush and showed his brother the picture of the identical strangers. Far from believing in the inevitability of his professional success, he worried about whether his character, in that alternate life, would have withstood the forces around him. It was almost easier for her to believe that Jorge was playacting as someone else, rather than that there could be two people who looked so much alike. The whole experience was less complicated for Wilber than for the other three brothers — simply because, as Wilber himself put it, he was not a very complicated person. The four young men in Bogotá had each been raised as a fraternal twin, an identity in and of itself. ‘‘That’s me!’’ he said. He felt closer, in many ways, to Brian than he did to his fraternal twin brother, Wilber. He had been snatched from his rightful place. After class, he took a bus home, where he planned to tell Carlos about the day’s events. They not only looked remarkably similar, but had also vacationed on the same Florida beach, married women with the same first name, divorced those women and married second wives who also shared the same name, smoked the same brand of cigarette and built miniature furniture for fun. When I was young, I saw the movie Big Business which was about two sets of twins who were switched at birth; each being separated from their own identical twin and sent home in the wrong pair. Janeth was sure he would give her and Laura a cut rate on the ribs. For five days, William stayed past his welcome, hiding and mingling among the groups of soldiers. Maybe, Janeth suggested to William by text, either he or his brother had been sick and was brought from Santander to a hospital in Bogotá. For most of the evening, the energy in the apartment was positive and giddy. The path tracked across a grassy meadow and then started a long, steep descent. Carlos looked at Wilber, his mirror image. That person over there, that is him. They often called each other right before they fell asleep, just to say good night. Wilber Cañas Velasco is a butcher in Bogotá. Little did I know that the year Big Business was released in 1988, there was something very similar happening in the city of Bogotá, Columbia. ‘‘Wilber has the goods,’’ Montoya said, watching from the table. They went back inside and started cleaning the counter, putting away utensils, waiting for their next customers. ‘‘It was vertigo,’’ Jorge told her, as he described waiting for William the first time they met. A friend was walking by Jorge’s desk, and Jorge flagged him down for a second opinion. How was he supposed to get to know his biological parents when there was always a crowd around? But her preliminary results, she said, show that on a number of traits, the identical twins were less alike than she initially anticipated. The four men seemed to bounce off one another in different pairs and groupings, splitting off in search of young women, returning to compare notes before heading out onto the floor again. That question tugged at her until finally, on Sept. 9, 2014, a slow day at her new job, Janeth texted Laura an image of William to show Jorge. That disappointed him; he wanted to talk to Wilber about more than women. He was furious. Jorge saw that Carlos had started to cry. Segal, a woman in her early 60s who grew up in the Bronx, said no. Spector and Craig, by contrast, are trying to identify how, exactly, we change in response to the environment. Castro was born in San Antonio, Texas, the son of Maria "Rosie" Castro and Jessie Guzman. ‘‘See?’’ In the picture, Carlos was puckered up, giving Jorge a big kiss on the cheek. He found that in almost every instance, the identical twins, whether reared together or reared apart, were more similar to each other than their fraternal counterparts were for traits like personality and, more controversial, intelligence. She had six children, but he was the one who sent her money. Jorge and William had sweet tempers. ‘‘You can’t look at how the environment will change the function of the genome without holding constant the genome,’’ she says. Carlos laughed alongside him, giddy with the strangeness of the similarity. The following Monday at Strycon, Laura told Jorge about her funny misunderstanding with his double at the butcher counter. As Brian and William set up the shop, Brian explained that the previous evening, Janeth showed him photos that were very confusing, of young men who looked just like Wilber and William. And Carlos’s insistence on that point felt, to William, like an insult to all he had endured — a life he had endured, no less, in Carlos’s place. Bouchard went on to research more than 80 identical-twin pairs reared apart, comparing them with identical twins reared together, fraternal twins reared together and fraternal twins reared apart. Jorge and William! That Carlos never looked liked Jorge and Diana was obvious. From there, he compulsively texted Janeth to see if she had any information about the name of the hospital where Jorge was born. At that moment, Jorge had before him sufficient evidence to suggest that his life was not what he thought it was, that his family was not what he thought it was. ‘‘I’m scared.’’ The moments ticked by, then two, with Carlos laughing nervously on one side, Wilber laughing on the other. It must have been an amazing night discovering who their missing twin was and seeing how similar they were. My hope for them is that they don’t look back and think of what might have been, but look forward and concentrate on where their lives can go from here! ‘‘So what do we do?’’ Carlos asked. He already had a tattoo of his mother over his heart. But his Adidas basketball sneakers were quickly soaked with oozing earth. (From left) Jorge Enrique Bernal Castro, William Cañas Velasco, Carlos Alberto Bernal Castro and Wilber Cañas Velasco. He listened to the birds; he was a willing audience to the family parrot, Roberto, who had a talent for singing ranchera songs. Carlos was losing patience. He had visited Santander twice since the reunion — once for a birthday party for all four brothers in La Paz and once to visit his biological parents, José del Carmen Cañas (known as Carmelo) and Ana Delina Velasco, at the home where they now lived. There was some woman, and some other guy. Jorge and William sat next to each other along one side of a wooden table, while Carlos sat across the way. The day after Jorge and Carlos discovered they were not fraternal twins, but rather each a part of a set of identical twins, William’s cousin showed up to work with the strange story. The friend sitting next to his double had a face that Jorge knew better than his own: It was the face of his fraternal twin brother, Carlos. There would be questions about their homes, lives and education, as well as personality and intelligence tests. ‘‘Every study will have its critics,’’ says Nancy Segal, a professor at California State University, Fullerton, who worked with Bouchard from 1982 to 1991. Jorge was amazed by the likeness of William to himself. For Carlos, this fourth visit to Santander felt like a fresh start. Within hours of the revelation, Janeth had arranged for William and Jorge to meet in a public square at 9 that evening, soon after William closed up the butcher shop. As pure science, the study of twins reared apart has troubled some researchers. Where was she? As Laura walked into the grocery store, catching up with Janeth, she was surprised to spot someone she knew. Taylor Rogers 10. Carlos and Jorge had always assumed that Carlos took after their father, but they did not know him well enough to be sure. Segal told them that she was interested in writing a book about them (Montoya would later collaborate with her), and the young men were enthusiastic subjects. William and Wilber could never spend that many hours together without getting on each other’s nerves. But he was not smiling back at her, which was strange. However, it wasn’t until he was flipping through William’s Facebook photos and saw a picture of William taking shots with someone who looked identical to his own twin brother that he realized they had more of a connection than just looks. It is based on the complex combined effects of an unaccountable number of genes.’’. View the profiles of professionals named "Jorge Castro" on LinkedIn. A few minutes later, William stumbled back into the shop and showed Brian a text from Janeth. ‘‘He works in my office.’’ He was a well-liked 24-year-old who worked a few floors up from her, designing pipes for oil transport, so she was surprised to see him waiting on customers in the shop. When he met Carmelo and Ana for the very first time at William and Wilber’s apartment, a camera crew for a Colombian newsmagazine show had been with them in the room. Did some reflect different epigenetics? Jorge Alcala / J Duran 18. ... Christin Stewart and Jorge Bonifacio. They never considered themselves deprived; they crammed a television and a refrigerator into that room, and the public schools in their neighborhood were good. Carlos and Wilber! They are already different products of their environment, the environment being whatever uterine conditions rendered them separate beings in the first place. She mentions the oddity to her friend who corrects her assumption by telling her it was not Jorge behind the counter, but William whom she was very familiar with. At the appointed time, Jorge stood in the square, looking around. He had grieved for her once; now he grieved again, as if losing her a second time. ‘‘Just don’t tease Carlos about it,’’ she said. Slowly, with the help of someone from the area who was walking alongside him, he began to extricate it. Carlos walked over to Jorge to wrap him in a close hug. ‘‘Identical twins allow you to do that.’’ Given how hard it is to find identical twins raised apart, twins researchers working in epigenetics have mostly been focusing on the identical twins who show difference. After a hospital error, two pairs of Colombian identical twins were raised as two pairs of fraternal twins. When Wilber arrived later that afternoon, William said he had to show him something and clicked, on his phone, on a photo of Jorge and Carlos. Carlos had one as a child but overcame it with speech therapy. Across town, Jorge was also feeling jittery. The speech impediment! ‘‘I want to be your brother,’’ he said. Having grown up so different from his other family members, he had come to pride himself on his individualism; now, as an identical twin, he was part of a rare subset of humans whose replicability was embarrassingly on display. Carlos Alberto Bernal Castro and Wilber Cañas Velasco. And Wilber passed that on to William. ‘‘People will think it’s me.’’. Why might one identical twin be gay or transgender and not the other? Why do identical twins, born with the same DNA, sometimes die of different diseases at different times in their lives? That Saturday, Jorge went to a tattoo parlor. Jorge is a dreamer, a restless traveler, an optimist who believes that ‘‘if you give your best to the world, it will give its best back.’’ William’s face, more narrow, more gaunt, reflects a far warier outlook. The closest high school was a five-hour walk away, so the family would have needed money to house him, plus money for uniforms and entrance fees, while also incurring the cost of losing his labor on the farm. Trevor Larnach 14. Carlos was taller, solidly built, with a wider nose and a heavier brow. Thus the fraternal twins discovered that they actually have identical twins and had the switch not happened William and Carlos would have lived vastly different lives. "Throughout the course of the season, you have ups and downs. It was becoming easier for William to accept that Carlos’s reserve on those excursions to Santander was not so much in reaction to his new family as it was in response to the public nature of the outings. Around 10, Carlos heard the doorbell ring. The news, he knew, would break her heart; it was already breaking his. Hi, I'm Jorge I've been living in Cabo for more than 10 years, so I know the area very well and have lots of contacts. But there were just too many people around — locals, cousins, every one of them, it had seemed, wanting a photograph or a hug or some other sign of a connection that he himself did not feel. Luis Arraez 11. Lamonte Wade Jr 17. As the evening wore on and he drank more aguardiente, his moves got bigger, more daring, until he was showing off a maneuver that he and a friend had made up one night, a pivot from the waist that had him leaning so far back that his spine was practically parallel with the floor, his knees bent and nearly buckling. Finally, around 11:30 a.m., the caravan stopped near a large gazebo in a grassy field. Ryan Jeffers 12. It was not as if he hadn’t thought hard, lying awake many nights, about what his fate would have been had he been raised with this biological family. 19. He had already told Diana about the photos. This is a little more rare because in order for a pair of twins to be identical, a single egg needs to have split after being fertilized, which results in two people with the exact same genetic makeup. Jorge sat Carlos down in front of the laptop in his bedroom and started clicking on photos, showing him the one of William in the Colombia jersey and others at the butcher shop. 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