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Hannah Mackenzie Wood & Clare McCarthy

Twins reunite to find they live identical lives - and have wives and sons with exactly the same names

A pair of identical twins, who were 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 the US in 1940 and given the same name by their respective adoptive parents - James, or Jim for short.

But the extraordinary similarities didn't end there, reports the Daily Record. The twins grew up just 40 miles from each other in Ohio, and both Jims had a brother named Larry and a dog called Toy.

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