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Hannah Mackenzie Wood

Estranged twins reunite to find they lived identical life - with wives and sons names the same

A pair of identical twins separated at birth and put up for adoption reunited 39 years later - only to discover they had led incredibly similar lives. Jim Lewis and Jim Springer, also known as 'the Jim twins', were born in 1940 and given the same name by their respective adoptive parents - James, or Jim for short.

But according to MamaMia.com, the extraordinary similarities didn't end there. Growing up just 40 miles from each other in Ohio, both Jims had a brother named Larry and a dog called Toy. They shared the same interests in school - mathematics and woodwork - and both hated spelling.

Each brother also went on to marry a woman named Linda, only to divorce several years later. But even more astoundingly, their respective second wives also had the same name, Betty, with both men naming their sons James Allan.

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