Mike &Mudge

Two Faces and Four Arms

Three degrees of separation linked Baby A to Baby B and Christmas trees. Around 385–370 BC, Plato wrote a play called the Symposium where one of the main characters was Aristophanes. Aristophanes said humans originally had two faces, four arms, and four legs. According to this myth, humans were originally whole beings, but the gods split them in half. As a result, each person is searching for their other half to become whole again. The Whitestone Italian American boy and Raleigh Chinese American girl were somehow linked.

Royal B

The first year Mike just called me Royal B, short for Royal Bitch. We met at Master Su’s mantis kung fu at Musical Theater, 440 Lafayette in Noho in 1998.

Same Height, Same Shoes

Both babies would grow to the height of exactly 5'1" as adults and both would become movement junkies. Because they were the same size, they would be able to swap shoes and sweatshirts.Exactly 28 years after birth, they would meet in NYC at Musical Theater Works at 440 Lafayette in lower Manhattan and become partners in mantis kung fu and later soul mates, two halves of one soul, separated at birth, destined to reunite. It was all written in the stars. That Plato.

The Plastic Chapel

One day, they would recite vows to each other in a courthouse chapel with plastic flowers and fake marble columns. To have and to hold, from this day forward, for better or worse, for richer or poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, till death do us part. Khalil Gibran, the Lebanese poet, wrote, "Love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation." That was also to come.