A set of identical twins, separated at infancy and placed for adoption, demonstrated their genetic similarity when they met for the first time at the age of 39.

Jim Lewis and Jim Springer, also known as ‘the Jim twins,’ chose to go by Jim despite their adoptive parents christening them James.

I’ve never written Jim so frequently in my life.

The twins, who were born in Ohio, learned at birth that they had a twin but that their brother had died; Lewis found out at age five, while Springer learned at age eight.

They remained unflinching for the next 30 years. We’ve talked about how their names were shared without any control. They also lived only 40 miles apart.

They each discovered love twice: first, they met and married ladies named Linda.

It failed for Jim and the other Jim, so they divorced Lindas.

Jim subsequently met Betty, and Jim also found a lady named Betty, with whom he married—yep, Springer and Lewis married different Lindas and Bettys before ever meeting.

The parallels don’t end there; the two guys realized they had the same taste in beer and wanted to smoke the same brand of cigarettes.

When asked to participate in scientific research, they provided nearly identical responses to personality and medical history tests, and when asked to draw a picture, they both drew the same one.

Thankfully, there are some differences; otherwise, this tale would be quite unsettling, as one twin ultimately tied the knot for the third time with a woman named Sandy, a feat that the other Jim failed to replicate.

In February 1979, at the age of 39, the Jim Twins finally reunited.

There are also additional remarkable stories of twins living remarkably identical lives, including twins having children on the same day as their siblings.

Who knows, maybe you have a long-lost identical twin someplace out there who lives almost exactly like you? We doubt that such a narrative will have this many parallels.