2. Plato – The Symposium
• According to Greek mythology, humans were originally created with
four arms, four legs and a head with two faces.
• Fearing their power, Zeus split them into two separate parts,
condemning them to spend their lives in search of their other halves.
3. Jim and Jim
• Jim Lewis and Jim Springer were separated at birth,
when they were put up for adoption in 1940 and met
for the first time when they were 39.
• It turns out that the name Jim was actually given to each of them independently,
by their respective adoptive parents
• Both men had married twice—first to women named Linda, and then to women
named Betty.
• Both had childhood dogs named Toy. Their sons’ names were James Allen and
James Alan.
• Both worked as sheriff’s deputies, drank the same beer, smoked the same
cigarettes, and drove the same Chevrolet.
5. Margaret and Mary Gibb
• Born in Holyoke, Massachusetts, in 1912
• Their parents did not want them exhibited or exploited nor did they
want the twins separated.
• At age 14, Margaret and Mary performed on the vaudeville stage and
with travelling circuses for the next couple of decades
• After one of them got engaged, they lived a quiet life until 1966 when
Margaret was diagnosed with terminal cancer.
• Even then, the Gibb twins refused to be separated.
• They both died within minutes of each other in 1967.
6. But what if there was a problem coming
together?
