![]() And I put them in the boot of the car and took them home. And what I discovered was that while they had been in that room alone, they had been teaching themselves to write. WALLACE: I saw their parents and then they took me upstairs, and they showed me in the bedroom lots of bean bags filled with writings - exercise books. SMITH: They barely graduated high school, and at the time of their arson spree, June and Jennifer were still living with their parents. They both moved in sort of synchronicity. WALLACE: One doctor was giving them a vaccination, and he noticed that neither of them spoke. It was like they were speaking a foreign language. They chirped and squeaked, enunciating the wrong syllables. They started talking late and when they finally did speak, their words came out garbled. They had grown up on an army base in Wales. They spoke only to each other.ĮLIZA SMITH, BYLINE: Like most twins, June and Jennifer Gibbons had an innate bond. The story was that there were two girls living on the coast of Wales and that these two girls had committed arson, having set fire to three buildings, but what was so strange about them was that they had never spoken to anyone in their lives. And I came across this story, and it seemed very strange to me. MARJORIE WALLACE: I was a journalist working on the Insight team as an investigative journalist of The Sunday Times in London. And today, we're exploring what it means to forgive to forgive other people to forgive yourself, but what if yourself is spit in two? Marjorie Wallace has the story. ![]() Welcome back to SNAP JUDGMENT, from PRX and NPR, the "Unforgiven" episode.
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