DAVID DUNKLEY,
Staff Reporter
Six-year-old twins Tameka (left) and Tamara Wilkie.
SIX years ago when Patricia Wilkie was having her twin daughters, Tameka and Tamara, she was a bag of nerves.
Now six years later, she is a happy mother, proud of her twins and watching them grow into beautiful young women.
"I had no idea I was going to have twins, the doctor didn't inform me and I only bought enough items for one child. I was frightened when I had another contraction after giving birth to Tamara," said Wilkie, who lives with her daughters in Portmore, St. Catherine. "When the nurse told me, I told her no, cause I didn't know what I was going to do."
She said at times the twins fight each other, sometimes for nothing at all, but noted that at other times they are very, very nice children.
"As soon as they stop fighting, they hug one another and start whisper to each other," she said. "They may give trouble but I am proud of them and love them very much."
Tamara and Tameka are second grade students at the Pembroke Hall Primary School in Kingston. Tamara whose favourite subject is Art, would like to become a teacher while, Tameka who loves Mathematics, dreams of becoming a doctor.
The twins say teachers and students often mix them up.
Their mother explains that she can tell the twins apart but not all the time.
"I know each by how they act, sometimes by the way they talk, I know by their sound and their voice," Mrs. Wilkie said. "Their faces are of different sizes.
