"it's not money; it's coins!"

in the nature vs. nurture debate, i'd like to cast a very strong vote for neither. you see, two people with the same biological parents, raised in the same household, under the same rules, should, if either of those constructs hold at all, have at least one thing in common. one. something. anything.

as individuals, there will, of course, be some differences but nature and/or nurture would seem to dictate that there would be at least one similarity.

as it turns out, there exists a pair of biologically-related, same house raised, exact opposites.

while one if off chasing down coins to cure cancer, the other is turning her nose up at retrieving the coins from the restaurant floor that landed there when her designer purse got knocked over. while one delights in the maintenance-free life of a honda owner, the other has "bad luck" when it comes to her turbo-charged european sports car staying in one, undamaged piece. while one regularly has dinner with a friend made in kindergarten, the other changes friends more often than she changes her thong underwear.

so while this is only an n of 1, it's a pretty strong freakin' n. and if 2 is a pattern, then surely 1 is more than enough to toss out a construct that has always been problematic and hotly contested, at best. no?

then again, maybe one of the best hospitals in the world just isn't that good at keeping track of which baby belongs to whom...