So, if you tell the 4-year-old that they aren’t twins because they have different color skin, the answer you’re going to get from them is: “You don’t know anything.”
While the girls are aware that they don’t look alike, they say that they have a bond that goes deeper than friendship or blood.
“We are twins because we have the same birthday and the same soul,” Jia told another child who challenged the notion that she and her bestie were twins.
While Jia, who is white, and Zuri, who is black, might not be biologically related they still might be technically twins according to a theory that Plato had about 2,500 years ago.
In Symposium, he stated that humans originally had two sets of body parts.
Either way, that’s their story, and they are sticking to it.
“They will tell you that they are twins and they have a long list of reasons why to back it up,” Jia’s mom Ashley Sarnicola said.
Jia and Zuri also love to wear matching outfits and sing and dance.
“I think that’s one of the nice things about growing up in a multicultural, melting pot city,” Ashley Sarnicola said. “They don’t see color. We’ve never talked to them about it, period.”