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Jes Wibowo |
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Jes Wibowo: Hi, my name is Jess Wibowo and my twin's name is Sin Wibowo. Our full names are Jessica Cynthia Wibowo and Jacinta Priscilla Wibowo. We usually like being called Jess and Sin, though. We much prefer that.
The story behind our names is that our parents weren't expecting twins. They were actually expecting one kid in the womb. There was something about how my mom was like... That was the first pregnancy for her. So when they got the scan, they didn't bother to check if maybe there was more kids in there. They were just like, "It sounds like one healthy beating heart. You're good."
So what happened was, basically the moment we were born, the nurse saw us and immediately called out, "There's another one coming!" And my mom was in shock, and my dad waiting outside the doctor's room was shocked, and they basically were like, "Now you have to come up with a name on the spot for the birth certificate." And they only prepared one name. The name was Jessica Priscilla Wibowo.
So, what my parents did was they split that name in half. So one twin would get Jessica Cynthia Wibowo, and the other twin would be Jacinta Priscilla Wibowo. It was a name that was made at the very last minute out of sheer panic.
Then, my parents had to buy double of everything because this was not what they were expecting. My dad called everyone in the family and they all thought he was pranking them, and that is how my name happened. That's how our names happened.
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