TWIN AND GRAMPS: Kimeshia (left) and Kimoya gets a hug from grandfather Noel Edwards KIMOYA and Kimeshia Dawkins were born as identical twins.
They look so much alike that at birth even their mother had trouble telling them apart.
Now 12 years later, their features have changed so much they do not even look like sisters.
Everyone, even their doctors, are puzzled at this drastic change as the two girls were said to have come from the same placenta. Not only have they changed physically, but their personalities are totally different.
"When they were babies I used to feed one twice because I didn't know who was who. One weighed seven pounds five ounces and the other weighed 7 pounds," explained their mother Marcia Hunter.
Now the girls are totally different. "Kimoya is quiet but she is a tomboy and Kimeshia is more the Christian type but she is very loud," said Hunter.
One thing you can be sure of is that the twins are usually to be found together. "When they are asleep that is when you know they are twin because if you turn them head and tail on the bed by the time you go back in the room they are hugging up together in the corner regardless of how hot the night is," she said.
At school, the girls say they both have different friends, at which point Kimeshia interjects that while she speaks to all of Kimoya's friends, Kimoya does not speak to her friends.
"It is because they are in A class they don't want to talk to us because we are in B class, " explained Kimoya.
"We were together in grade one but is when we went into grade two that they separate us and we cried everyday," said Kimeshia.
Although the girls fight and argue with each other at times, their mother says they always support each other. "If I talk to one about something the other one said is because I don't like them."
Kimeshia wants to be a teacher, lawyer or singer, while Kimoya wants to be an athlete or an entertainer. Their future plans however does not include them living together as adults as Kimeshia says she is not interested in that arrangement.
"I want us to live apart and then we can visit each other because I don't want us to have to be quarrelling," Kimeshia said.
One thing they are certain of is that when they start having children they do not want any twins.
They might not get their wish as Hunter says she is from a family of twins. Her great grand aunt had 17 children - four twins and three triplets.
Hunter has two older sons.
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