If you tell Jia Sarnicola and Zuri Copeland 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.”
From a spiritual standpoint, these 4-year-old kids might be right.
Jia Sarnicola and Zuri Copeland are aware that they don’t look alike, but 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 said that she and her bestie were not twins.
While Jia, who is white, and Zuri, who is black, might not be biologically related, according to a theory that Plato had about 2,500 years ago, they still might be technically twins.
In Symposium, he stated that humans originally had two sets of body parts.
They were basically two humans combined into two attached bodies that shared a soul.
Zeus was afraid that these perfect and powerful human beings would rise up against him, so he split them in half forcing the two separated halves to search for each other for all eternity.
So, maybe Jia and Zuri really do share a soul.
“They will tell you that they are twins and they have a long list of reasons why to back it up,” said Jia’s mom Ashley Sarnicola.
As per their mothers, both girls are bursting with energy and have big hearts and love to care for others.
Both Jia and Zuri have big opinions they love to voice if that wasn’t already obvious.
Their birthdays are just two days apart so both belong to Gemini whose astrological symbol is twins
Both the girls 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.”
But the moms are aware that their rosy-colored view of the world might not last forever.
“You know, you’re happy for a few seconds and then you become sad because they have to grow up – and then society takes over,” Zuri’s mom Valencia Copeland said.
My sister and her bestfriend think that they’re twins because they have the same birthday and this was the outcome.. pic.twitter.com/x1dCZmIip3
— la loba (@vickto_willy) November 5, 2017
However, these girls seem perfectly poised to challenge whatever society throws at them.
They’re already doing it, which places them in the perfect position to change how society views people as different from one another.
Victoria Williams, Zuri’s older sister, shared the story about the two girls on social media after she had been informed by the 4-year-olds about how they share a soul.
It just took this sweet story of friendship between these soul sisters a short time to go viral. That post has since been liked more than 68,000 times.
Learn more about these two besties in the video below.
