My twin brother Bobby and I literally grew up surrounded by the
Ocean on the tiny Peninsula of Nahant, Massachusetts. Bobby is now in a
nursing home in Nahant suffering from stage 4 Parkinsons disease ~ probably
accelerated by many concussions while playing college football. From his window
at the Jesmond nursing home, where he now lives, he can see the Thompson Club (
now Nahant Club ) where we played together for many years as young children and
also right across the street from where we lived on Nahant Road. This is a love
note to my twin as he looks out that window: Allen L Roland
My
dearest twin,
As
you look out your window at the old Thompson Club, you may not remember the
glorious summer days we spent as children playing baseball, football and even
tennis together but I will help you ~ for I
remember virtually everything about our closeness and the fun we had together
as twins, before events forced us to go on separate paths in our late teens.
It
was so special to wake up every morning with my best friend and playmate ~ we
were the Hardy Boys, my favorite book series, embarking on new daily adventures
and using the whole peninsula as our playground. The Thompson club was our
sports arena and depending on the season ~ it became Fenway Park or any sports
stadium we invented in our active and exuberant imaginations.
The
barn in our backyard became the set piece for all the movies we watched and
acted out as well as the radio shows we listened to ~ The Shadow, Jack
Armstrong, The green Hornet, the Adventures of Sam Spade , the Lone Ranger and
of course, the Inner Sanctum and Lights Out.
Once
again, in many ways, we WERE the Hardy Boys ~ "The Hardy Boys are
constantly involved in adventure and action. Despite frequent danger, the boys
never lose their nerve ..." They
are hardy boys, luckier and more clever than anyone around them." They live in an atmosphere of mystery and intrigue: "Never
were so many assorted felonies committed in a simple American small town. Murder,
drug peddling, race horse kidnapping, diamond smuggling, medical malpractice,
big-time auto theft, even (in the 1940s) the hijacking of strategic materials
and espionage, all were conducted with Nahant (Bayport) as a nucleus." With so much in common, the boys are so little
differentiated that one commentator facetiously describes them thus: "The
boys' characters basically broke down this way ~ Frank (Allen) was
the thinker while Joe ( Bobby ) was more impulsive, and perhaps a little more
athletic." The two boys are
infallibly on good terms with each other and never engage in sibling
rivalry." Wikipedia / Hardy Boys
Those
were fun childhood times in Nahant and I vividly remember the hurricanes that
swept over that Peninsula as we watched from our top floor bedroom perch on
287 Nahant Road ~ two houses down from the Jesmond Home
where you now reside.
You
were my constant companion and sharer of joy and we
were indelibly connected together through our shared nine month journey to this
planet and obvious deep loving twin connection.
The
twin connection defies description, Bobby
~ it's a loving connection that goes beyond time and space ~ it's a deep
knowing soul connection that was cemented in the womb as well as our shared
birth experience.
Since
I am the first born twin, two minutes before you, it is my responsibility to
prepare you for the final transition by sharing that God (a loving plan in action) only reveals itself to a grateful heart and that
alone will prepare you for your final passage.
My
heart is most definitely grateful that you were my loving twin and companion
for so many years and I will most certainly be with you in your final moments
and most definitely when you pass through the event horizon of physical death.
Right
now, you may feel increasingly alone since it's so difficult to speak and move ~ but you are being well taken care of
and are most certainly loved by your immediately family as well as brothers and
sisters.
But
be aware that I am already holding your hand, as I did as a young enfant, and
as you look out that window at the Thompson
Club you will see me beckoning to you, with a baseball bat on my shoulder,
telling you to hurry up before the summer rain squall starts and you will smile
knowingly and be grateful, as I am, that you are indeed blessed to be a twin.
With
my deepest love and joy
Allen
Freelance
Alternative Press Online columnist and psychotherapist Allen L Roland is
available for comments, interviews, speaking engagements and private
consultations ( allen@allenroland.com )
Allen
L Roland is a practicing psychotherapist, author and lecturer who also shares a
daily political and social commentary on his weblog and website allenroland.com
He also guest hosts a monthly national radio show TRUTHTALK on www.conscioustalk.net
Those who we love deeply become part of us forever ~
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