Twin Lights

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Doctor whispered Sister Giovanni with a sense of urgency </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>as the tiny newborn infant slipped into her outstretched hands </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>I think there's another one! </span></p><p><br></p><p><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)><span></span>Twin Lights</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> was written to help a father imagine a very different version of his life had his premature twin sons lived and been his only children. Michael Charles and Mark Edward Dowdle were born at five-and-a-half months' gestation in Perham Minnesota on August 9 1953 each weighing a pound and a half. The twins died an hour apart the following day. When Dowdle was 83 years old he began pondering the question of what that life might have looked like a life with twin sons and no daughters. That question was answered when he finished writing </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Twin Lights</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> in 2021 at the age of 93. </span></p>