Seeing double

The ups and downs of being a twin

Isabella and Mike Bonfiglio laugh at one another in the hallway between classes.

Ally Wang

Isabella and Mike Bonfiglio laugh at one another in the hallway between classes.

Always there for a shoulder to cry on.

A person to look at for help.

Someone to talk to.

A built in best friend.

Karly and Luke Konik.

Isabella and Mike Bonfiglio.

Emmery and Garrett Wilson.

All are twins who come from the homes of families from Homestead and have shared every big milestone together since birth.

Having gone through the hardest, best, most rewarding and exciting times together, the Wilson’, Bonfiglios, and Koniks have shared “Too many memories.”

Despite sharing a birthday, these twins have different personalities. “No we do not have the same personality. I try to save people’s feelings and not to be too negative, which is very different from Mike,” Isabella said.

Some of these twins share different groups of friends while others tend to hang out with the same people. “We have the same friends, so we do spend a lot of time together aside from school,” Luke said.

But, despite the different, or in some cases same, friends, personalities and interests these twins might have, they always find time to be with one another. “We don’t spend that much time together on the weekends because, she goes out with her friends, and I hang with my friends, but on the weekends we talk about homework because we have some of the same classes, or we talk about what happened that day (like gossip),” Mike Bonfiglio said.

Each set of twins admit to  sharing some of the best memories together. “My favorite memory with Luke would be while we were in London, we were racing our family up the St. Cathedral steps together. It was fun to be able to make a memory with Luke in such a cool place,” Karly said.

On the flip side, they, too, experience sibling rivalry and shared some of the hard and annoying parts about being a twin, “The hardest part for me about having a twin, is having people always compare us,” Emmery said.

One day, it will go from spending every day together, to only seeing each other around holidays; when they leave for college. When that happens,  “I will miss Emery very much when I leave for college,” Garrett said.

But, no matter the distance, their relationships will remain “the same.”

All in all, despite their differences or similarities,, there is one thing that ties all these twins together: love and family.