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Exquisite Corpus

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By Geetha Iyer, Dabin Jeong, Susan Barr-Toman
| The Offing Verified
a lyric essay in one paragraph, repeatedly revised (edits indicated in blue) I have been teaching my students that humans are storytellers by nature. My students write muddled first drafts that I cherish because this is the first layer they lay down of a memory that they must rewrite, and rewrite, and rewrite, to figure out what it is they really mean.
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The Vanishing - The Offing

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By Susan Barr-Toman
| The Offing Verified
Twenty years ago, my twin sister Sarah signed us up for a twin research project out of the University of Chicago, our contribution to science. We were excited that, even as fraternal twins, we might have the opportunity to participate in the study. To get started, they sent us DNA kits to verify what kind of twins we were. Fraternal twins come from two separate eggs fertilized by two separate sperm. Therefore, their DNA is not identical.
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My sister and I thought we were fraternal twins for 35 years. A test told us we are actually identical. Original

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By Susan Barr-Toman
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Save Article Icon A bookmark Facebook Icon The letter F. Read in app Courtesy of Peter Toman For 35 years, I was certain my twin sister and I were fraternal. My sister signed us up for a twin study, where we collected our DNA with a swab. We found out we were actually identical twins. Loading Something is loading. Thanks for signing up! Access your favorite topics in a personalized feed while you're on the go.
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