The Silent Twins: Now a major motion picture starring Letitia Wright

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Mi piacciono molto i libri basati su una storia vera. La vicenda delle gemelle Gibbons è davvero incredibile. Le due ragazze sono state vittime di pregiudizi e dell'ignoranza. Hanno vissuto una gran parte della loro vita rinchiuse tra istituti e carcere. WALLACE: I telephoned a psychiatrist, a psychologist; I talked to the Department of Health. I wrote articles in the newspapers, fighting for them that they should be discharged - released from Broadmoor. SMITH: Marjorie was having fun with the twins, but still, June and Jennifer's relationship wasn't an easy. Marjorie read diary entry after diary entry in which the twins wrote about how trapped or sometimes even possessed or tortured they felt by each other.

Jennifer's cheekbones were very thin and her face looked very flushed. She looked, I think, quite afraid. June looked determined. I was very disturbed at the end of this visit. Marjorie Wallace with the Gibbons twins during a visit to Broadmoor in 1993. PA Images via Getty Images The twins June and Jennifer Gibbons were sentenced to indefinite detention (life imprisonment) in Broadmoor, a notorious institution for the criminally insane. Broadmoor then used a most powerful tranquilizing drug and showed them who was boss. June was older than her sister by ten minutes, yet most people believed that Jennifer was the manipulative sister. The twins, who immigrated to England with their parents and three siblings in the early 1960s, grew closer because of the abuse they endured. Their case became so prolific that the Manic Street Preachers’ 1995 song Tsunami was inspired by the sisters.One of the best parts of reading the book, though, is listening to Gibbons try to mimic American jive (it’s unclear exactly when the story is supposed to take place, although the bus full of “beatniks” that passes through early on suggests the 60s or 70s.) When Preston’s friend Ryan wants to ask what’s wrong, he instead queries, “Hey what fazes you?” Later on, someone chides, “Listen, don’t get nifty with me.” But my all-time favorite has to be when Peggy sarcastically tosses a compliment at Preston: “Maybe you’re the best thing since blueberry muffins,” she says. The separation resulted in the undesired outcome – it brought the twins closer together. June and Jennifer’s lives together weren’t entirely blissful. The pair engaged in near-fatal fights: June tried to drown Jennifer in the river; Jennifer tried to strangle June with a cord.

The thing about this book is that it’s not great, and you know that going into it, as it was written by a 16 year old who was dealing with a LOT in her personal life. Harpin, Anna; Nicholson, Helen (7 October 2016). Performance and Participation: Practices, Audiences, Politics. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9781137393180 . Retrieved 30 January 2018– via Google Books. WALLACE: This is June. (Reading) Nobody suffers the way I do, not with a sister; with a husband, yes; with a wife, yes; with a child, yes, but this sister of mine, a dark shadow robbing me of sunlight, is my one and only torment. Something I found interesting is that June was maybe trans but the author and all involved act like the chest binding both did and June's feelings re: being male were just part of a Peter Pan desire to not grow up. Wallace, one of the only people June and Jennifer would talk to, ended up reporting extensively on the behavior that allegedly spooked the Broadmoor staff. The twins would alternate which one of them would eat food while the other one went hungry. For a time they were separated, and staff would discover that both girls, though kept in cells far apart from one another, were motionless, frozen in the exact same position.They had such a talent for storytelling that June’s book – titled Pepsi Cola Addict – about a student being seduced by a teacher was self-published. But i think that was one of the happiest days i ever had… those don’t come by too often.’ ‘It was always like July 4th in those days.’” il 1963 quando Jennifer e June Gibbons, di origine caraibica ma residenti in Inghilterra sin dalla prima infanzia, vedono la luce. Le gemelle, identiche in tutto e per tutto, sviluppano nel corso degli anni un rapporto talmente esclusivo da risultare morboso, godendo l’una della compagnia dell’altra e tagliando fuori chiunque altro, inclusa la loro famiglia.

a b c d e Morgan, Kathleen (2 August 2010). "Tragic tale of twins and their secret world". Herald Scotland. Archived from the original on 17 May 2015 . Retrieved 19 July 2013.When identical twins, June and Jennifer Gibbons were three they began to reject communication with anyone but each other, and so began a childhood bound together in a strange and secret world. As they grew up, love, hate and genius united to push them to the extreme margins of society and, following a five week spree of vandalism and arson, the silent twins were sentenced to a gruelling twelve-year detention in Broadmoor. I think all the characters at some point say ‘Huh’ at the end of a sentence when they are talking to someone, used to get more information out of them such as 'what did you do that for, huh'? The doctors at the Caswell Clinic deduced that the medications given to the girls at Broadmoor must have provoked Jennifer’s immune system — though they also noted that June was given the same medications and was in perfect health upon arriving,” All That’s Interesting reported.