LK

In high school, the twins were “very confident, and very interesting for their age—there was a certain amount of maturity, or should I say sophistication” Ernie Casciato, their English teacher, who became a mentor, says. They were also reliably bad students, and on one occasion they took advantage of the frequent confusion of their identities by splitting their subjects between them while preparing for their final exams, so that Michael took the history and biology tests twice, and Matthew sat for English twice.