Next to our house lived an old couple, who, accustomed to country life, were unwilling to move to the city to live with their son and stuck in a lonely existence for many years. It seemed that they didn’t feel like making any new connections with others, including their next-door neighbours.
The neighborhood kids nicknamed the strange old couple Crazy Jack and Ruby Rednose. Rumor (流言，传言) was that they sat inside and drank tea all day. The only words we ever heard from them were “Keep out of our rosebushes!” The rosebushes crawled along the fence. Or rather, they served as a fence between our house and theirs, overgrowing the support.
I was eleven at the time and the oldest of our family girls. A suitable playing court was a headache problem for us when we felt like playing softball games, which was our favourite sport then. We should have played our softball games elsewhere to avoid hurting the roses, but we secretly enjoyed annoying Crazy Jack and Ruby Rednose.
One day, we had a softball game in our yard. Mary was trying to catch a fly ball. She stumbled (绊倒) over one of Ruby Rednose’s rosebushes and fell on top of several more. Just at that moment, Ruby Rednose sprang out and ran toward Mary. She screamed angrily, “Look at what you’ve doneto our family’s roses! You’ve always been a trouble. You have no idea what this rosebush means to me!”
Hearing this, my sisters and I ran into our house. Breathlessly, we told Mom what had happened. “Girls, I have told you not to play softball near those bushes. Come outside right now and help me fix them.” “Mom, we thought you didn’t like the couple,” we protested. “They’re mean to us.” Mom just glared at us. We followed her outside to help repair the rose fence. While Mom was examining the damaged roses, Ruby slowly walked out. She looked sad. And it wasn’t her nose that was red, but her eyes.
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Ruby walked over to my mother, we girls holding our breath.
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A few weeks later, the plants all came back to life.
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Andrea Penaherrera and Marielisa Romo had no idea that their lives were about to change forever when they walked into a restaurant in the Southern Ecuadorian town of Milagros on a significant day in March 2007. Yet, that important day marked the start of the opening of countless mysteries behind their existence. They discovered for the first time that they were twin sisters.
The two first met accidentally when they were fifteen, which seemed like a movie plot. Andrea remembered going into a Milagros restaurant with her single mother, Petita, to eat out. Shortly after settling into their seats, their eyes went across the room, where an impressive teenage girl was seated. The two were shocked to realize the stranger looked exactly like Andrea, with shared features like hair, eyes, and height. How could there be such two very similar people in the world.
The stranger’s name was Marielisa, and she was accompanied by her parents, Roberto and Isabel. Naturally, the two girls got talking, deciding to get to the bottom of their similar appearances, which seemed too much of a coincidence (巧合). They later realized they had lived together and worn the same clothes for some time. However, they lived in different fam-ilies without any overlap (重叠). They had never seen each other before, let alone know that there was another person who looked like themselves around them.
The story of the twin sisters who met accidentally soon became widespread, getting media attention. Before long, several media companies joined the girls in their seeking to discover the whole truth.
While the coincidental meeting of the two was already mysterious, further discovery proved the story behind their separation more of a mystery. Different available versions of the separation story have made the rounds over time, so much that what happened twelve years ago remained unclear to date. More and more mysteries were waiting to be solved.
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Finally, half a month later, the girls’ mother, Petita told a sad story.
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The girls were glad that fortune eventually led them to each other.
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One winter Sunday, my little sister, Colleen, and I built the greatest snowman ever. We gave him a carrot nose, beautiful hat, cozy scarf and gloves. He was a masterpiece（杰作）.
The next morning when looking outside, we smiled lovingly at him over our meal. We gave him a high five as we passed by on our way to school. A lot of kids went past our house, so he was the hot topic at our school that morning. It was our pride！
The day dragged on until finally we could rush home. But as our yard came into sight, we saw something wrong. The snowman was gone！We only found a broken stick here, a torn glove there and balls of snow everywhere. Worst of all, the snowman’s once-proud carrot nose lay limp（无力的）and half-eaten.
What had happened？We were both astonished and angry. But then, we were only kids, who wouldn’t have anything take away our happiness. Actually we knew only one thing: Our snowman would rise again. And so we rebuilt him.
The next day we came home to find another mess on the front lawn（草坪）. For the rest of the week, the destruction was repeated daily. Each afternoon we’d return to find our snowman had fallen apart, and then we built again.
By Saturday morning, we had a plan. We borrowed a really big bucket （水桶）from Mom, filled it with water and left it outside. The next morning. it was frozen solid. We packed snow all around the ice block as the base （底座）of the snowman. Then we built the other parts of it once again The trap was set, and we wailed for the snowman bullies（破坏者） to come
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On Monday morning, hiding behind the window, we soon saw what we were waiting for
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Seeing their pained look, we couldn’t help laughing
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It was a fantastic and cheery early summer day. The sun was shining brilliantly, with clouds dancing in the blue sky. The birds were singing merrily and the colourful flowers were in full bloom. There was a warm gentle breeze. Bright green leaves swung in the wind, occasionally falling to the ground, cast off from the trees they trusted.
It was a lovely morning to be outdoors, to enjoy oneself in the splendid beauty of nature. There’s nothing quite as curative as being out in nature. Little Bear hated being locked at home. He wanted to go out to relieve his boredom. While his mother was busy with the daily domestic tasks, Little Bear slipped out through the backdoor. He was so eager for independence that he ignored his parents’ words and raced off into the woods near his home on his own.
As he jogged along the winding path from his home, Little Bear felt like an adventurer. Soon, the stone path ended and he found himself in the forest. He had never been so far from home all by himself. As Little Bear explored the plants of different colors in the abundant green forest, the fear of being alone in the great outdoors began to wear off. He immediately began to regret his careless decision to escape from his parents.
By afternoon, the sun was burning hot. Little Bear was weak from hunger and thirst. He felt tired and hungry. He longed for his mother’s cooking. He longed for his nice cosy bed. He longed to go home. Little Bear scanned the surroundings. Everything looked unfamiliar to him. He was lost! There was not a soul in sight from whom he could ask for directions. Little Bear sat on a rock, alone and depressed. Looking down, all he could see were his little paw prints imprinted in the mud.
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An idea suddenly came into Little Bear’s mind.
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Before long, he saw his familiar wooden cottage.
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