Elgin Taylor, STAR Writer
Monique and Shanique Hayden - Elgin Taylor photo
St Catherine
Monique and Shanique Hayden are like your typical twins. They love the same foods, play the same games, enjoy the same subject, are identical, and have similiar aspirations for the future.
They are 10-year-old grade five students at Marlie Mount Infant and Primary School in St Catherine. Monique is a class monitor, while her sister is a class prefect.
"I like mathematics," Monique, the firstborn, told THE STAR's Life and Times. "You stole my subject," said Shanique with a mischievous grin.
Both girls revealed that they like rice and peas and chicken, that red is their favourite colour, and that they would like to be medical doctors when they grow up.
Good friends
Monique said they think alike, and on several occasions "the same things would come out at the same time."
They also work well together in performing household chores like washing the dishes and tidying the rooms.
And, as is the tendency with siblings, they sometimes get into quarrels and even fights. Whenever this happens, Monique usually comes out the winner.
Baptised
The twins who live with their grandmother on Vernon Avenue in the Marlie Mount community, also worship at the Old Harbour Seventh-day Adventist Church. Shanique further explains:
"We are Christians and we are also baptised. We like going to church. Sometimes we invite our friends to come along too."
Another act that they like doing together is praying.
"At bedtime we get on our knees and pray silently to God," said Shanique. Her sister nodded in agreement.
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