KNOWING ME KNOWING YOU
‘LIFE IS DEFINITELY RICHER FOR BEING A TWIN’
Davinder Youngs, 49, is a civil servant based in Hertfordshire. Her twin sister Muninder is also a civil servant and lives in Middlesex. Both are married; Davinder has a daughter aged 27 and a son aged 24, while Muninder has three girls aged 15, 11 and 10.
Davinder says Muninder and I are very similar to look at, but we can’t be sure if we are technically identical. It’s not the type of thing our mother discussed with us and mothers expecting twins weren’t scanned as they are now, so she may not have known either. As kids we had real fun with it. Our parents dressed us the same and we had long plaits, so we’d pretend to be each other to fool people.
By the time we got to senior school we wanted to go our own way. There were definite expectations of us, and although we were dressed the same
