{"id":312,"date":"2020-03-25T07:52:58","date_gmt":"2020-03-25T14:52:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elizabetholdham.com\/wpd\/?p=312"},"modified":"2020-03-25T07:53:00","modified_gmt":"2020-03-25T14:53:00","slug":"deception-twins-part-iv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elizabetholdham.com\/wpd\/2020\/03\/25\/deception-twins-part-iv\/","title":{"rendered":"Deception – Twins, Part IV"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Can’t keep the grins off of those faces!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

When my sister and I graduated from high school, we left for\nseparate universities. She headed to a large public university with 30,000\nstudents while I headed for a private, Jesuit university with 3,500 students. I\nquickly chafed under the small class sizes, conservative philosophies and the\nwealthy private-school mentality of the student body however, and decided late\ninto the year to transfer to the same university as my sister and brother. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a prospective athlete, I was able to get my application\nsubmitted and accepted despite missing the early deadlines.  Housing, on the other hand was a different\nmatter. Though my sister was moving into an apartment with friends, I wanted to\nlive in the residence halls for a few months to meet people and make friends\nunconnected to her. But I had missed all the deadlines. Because my sister,\nhowever, lived in the dorms as a first year student, she was able to sign up\nfor a second year automatically. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Without much thought or discussion, we agreed that I would\nlive in the dorms for the first quarter of school under her name.  When the new fall term started, I moved into\nthe dorms and memorized my sister\u2019s social security number, required for\neverything from meal plans to key rentals. Each floor was overseen by a student\nResident Assistant, an RA, and each building was supervised by a Resident Director\nwho was older and likely a graduate student. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As luck would have it, the RA on my floor, Ben, was a good\nfriend of my sister\u2019s, and I had met him and socialized with him several times\nin the previous year. He pretended not to know that I was an imposter, even\nthough it was common knowledge among the students. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first quarter progressed without incident until the keg\nparty. I honestly don\u2019t know why or how we did it, but my roommate and I hid a\nkeg of beer in our closet and let students from our floor come in and out to\nrefill their cups. Ben left the dorm to avoid any conflict, but somehow word\nmade it to the Director who knocked on the door just as it was being opened by\nsomeone leaving with a full cup. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

She put an immediate end to the party and let us know that\nif we could get the keg off of university grounds, we would not face further\nconsequences. We quickly made arrangements to get the keg to my sister\u2019s\napartment and take the party there, which is what we did. The party lost steam,\nhowever, without the steady stream of students to liven it up, so while I was\npartied out and stayed at my sister\u2019s apartment for the rest of the night, a\nfew other students took possession of the keg and moved it back to the dorms. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The following day, when I returned to the dorms, I received\na notice to appear in front of the Resident Director. Heart pounding, I\nreminded myself that I was my sister. We met in her office, and she asked if I\nknew that the keg had been seized from a student\u2019s room on my floor. I hadn\u2019t\nbut wasn\u2019t surprised.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

She then reminded me that I had assured her that the keg\nwould leave the university. Well it had,<\/em>\nI began, but she cut me off. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well, it came back.\nWhether you were involved or not, you promised that the keg would leave the\nuniversity. I\u2019m afraid that this will have to go on your permanent record. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I nodded slowly, considering what it would say. Can\u2019t control her liquor? Minor consuming and furnishing alcohol to other minors? Doesn\u2019t keep her promises? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We concluded our meeting with an assurance that I would refrain from further keg parties or other infractions. I doubted that this mark on my sister\u2019s record would ever affect her, so I didn\u2019t feel too guilty. I didn\u2019t feel shame or sadness. I felt only relief that I had not been discovered. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When my sister and I graduated from high school, we left for separate universities. She headed to a large public university with 30,000 students while I headed for a private, Jesuit university with 3,500 students. I quickly chafed under the small class sizes, conservative philosophies and the wealthy private-school mentality of the student body however, and decided late into the … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[92,19],"tags":[93,110,111,94,109],"class_list":["post-312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deception","category-musings","tag-deception","tag-keg-party","tag-permanent-records","tag-twins","tag-university","no-post-thumbnail"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizabetholdham.com\/wpd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizabetholdham.com\/wpd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizabetholdham.com\/wpd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizabetholdham.com\/wpd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizabetholdham.com\/wpd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/elizabetholdham.com\/wpd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":316,"href":"https:\/\/elizabetholdham.com\/wpd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions\/316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizabetholdham.com\/wpd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizabetholdham.com\/wpd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizabetholdham.com\/wpd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}