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Bookends

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My brother-in-law ,Tim Berry, posted this 2009 photo of me with my sister, Terri Berry, and my nephew, Sebastian Berry, on Facebook. I had to share it here because I think Terri and I look even more matchy-matchy than usual.

Bookends!

Background information:

  • We aren’t twins (though we do both wear MAC’s Lasting Lust lip color).
  • No one in the family is really named Berry. We just liked to call Terri “Terri Berry” when she was a kid. Tim and Sebastian are honorary Berries as a result.
  • My sister changed her last name when she got married (but still not to Berry!). I decided long ago that there was no way in hell I was changing my last name … unless I met a guy whose last name was “Bendy.” “Wendy Bendy” would be amazeballs … and I don’t say “amazeballs” lightly.

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  1. A-dorable! You two really do look like twins in this photo… I look like my dad and my sister like my mom and I’m four years older, but I recall at least one occasion as a teen when someone thought we were twins. Weird.

  4. Ahh! My anti-spam word wears monkey fur and paints soup cans! 😀

    Anyway, you sure you two aren’t twins… how do you know you weren’t… “cloned”? *dramatic music*

  6. 1st: I can’t believe my word ver. is something I’ve been craving, gazpacho. crazy.
    You look like twins to me. What’s the age difference?
    My daughters are three years apart, and people get them mixed up all of the time.
    “more detached than the average cat” hahaha, loved that on Drolly’s page.
    I just realized that the last sentence makes it look like I’m stalking you.

  7. yes, gorgeous family, indeed!
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  10. Wow you two are alike. Lovely pic. Wendy Bendy made me chuckle! I was soooo reluctant to change my name when I got married, and two tears on and I have a bit of a dual identity!!! Hope you are well. e xxxx

  11. WOwza! You do you look like twinkies!

    Gorgeous pic Wendy and I love the blazer! So stylish all the time!
    smiles,
    gina

  17. Dang, you DO look a little twinny here.

    And I’m glad you explained the Berry references. I always wondered.

    I really wanted to marry my college housemate because his last name was Scally. Seriously. Sally Scally? Also awesomeballs.

  18. Bendy Wendy would be EVEN better than Wendy Bendy. 🙂 I love funny last names. Last night I was watching “Wipeout” (please, I know, shut up) and there was a girl whose last name was Funke-Ho (pronounced Funky Ho) How awesome is that? She was born Funke and married a Ho. If I was Miss Funke-Ho I’d be milking that thing for all it’s worth. 🙂

  23. Amen…don’t change your last name. For so many reasons and so much work. The two of you are beautiful and I would have though you were twins.

  29. Wendy Bendy. How appropriate that my anti-spam word is “hahaha” cuz that is what Wendy Bendy made me do!

  39. I love your family knicknames. Too bad Mr.B’s last name isn’t “Bendy” . . . . Maybe you could get him to change his last name to that, then your biggest dream would come true!

  42. Typically, I spit my coffee all over my laptop when I read “Wendy Bendy”.

    You and your sister are gorgeous! And young Master Berry is adorable.

    I didn’t change my last name when I got married over 25 years ago (yup, child bride) and it was never an issue until my son came home at age 7 from a parish basketball game and asked why he was a “bastard” when he thought he had been nice to the other children. And that happened in this century.

  43. My friend used to have me on his cell phone labeled Jill the Thrill. His wife wasn’t too pleased. Love Wendy Bendy and you and your Sister…Beautiful.

  45. Oh My Gosh! I can’t believe there are two people with, almost the same, terrific face. I didn’t believe it possible. Beautiful dames. 🙂