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* BriefAccentImitation: Kate is greatly annoyed by the terrible British accent Vi uses when imitating people she considers to be narrow-minded, especially since most of them are American.
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* MillenniumBug: Kate was worried about this, but Vi told her, "That Y2K stuff is bullshit. My meditation group was talking about it, and we've all gotten messages that the transition will be peaceful."
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* OuijaBoard: During the five-week period in eighth grade when Kate is best friends with [[AlphaBitch Marisa Mazarelli]], the two girls ask the board about the preferences about the hottest boy in class to help Marisa attract him.
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* OuijaBoard: During the five-week period in eighth grade when Kate is best friends with [[AlphaBitch Marisa Mazarelli]], the two girls ask the board about the preferences about of the hottest boy in class to help Marisa attract him.
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* MySignificanceSenseIsTingling: When Kate's mother dies of a reaction to her fibromyalgia medication, Kate feels desperately sad, even though she doesn't get the news until the next day.
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* OuijaBoard: During the five-week period in eighth grade when Kate is best friends with [[AlphaBitch Marisa Mazarelli]], the two girls ask the board about the preferences about the hottest boy in class to help Marisa attract him.
-->'''Vi''': It's different for different people in my line of work, and for me it's always been a combination of things - sometimes dreams, sometimes a conscious visualization, other times just a gut feeling.
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* TalentContest: The twins participate in one during eighth grade, dancing to Music/BillyJoel's "You May Be Right." Their act is so well-received that Daisy is invited to [[AlphaBitch Marisa Mazarelli]]'s birthday party a few weeks later.
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* SpiritAdvisor: Vi is in contact with a being she calls Guardian. Kate doesn't like to hear about Guardian, since she's worried he has ulterior motives of some kind.
* TalentContest: The twins participate in one during eighth grade, dancing to Music/BillyJoel's "You May Be Right." Their act is so well-received that Daisy is invited to[[AlphaBitch Marisa Mazarelli]]'s Marisa's birthday party a few weeks later.
* TalentContest: The twins participate in one during eighth grade, dancing to Music/BillyJoel's "You May Be Right." Their act is so well-received that Daisy is invited to
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* TwinDesynch: The twins were practically impossible to tell apart as children, but once they hit puberty, Violet got a different haircut and started gaining weight faster than her sister. Now many people can't tell they're related.
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* TwinDesynch: The twins were practically impossible to tell apart as children, but once they hit puberty, Violet got a different haircut and started gaining weight faster than her sister. Now many most people can't tell they're related.related.
* TwinTelepathy: When Violet is interviewed on the Today Show, Kate can hear all of Matt Lauer's questions even though they're only playing in Vi's earpiece.
* TwinTelepathy: When Violet is interviewed on the Today Show, Kate can hear all of Matt Lauer's questions even though they're only playing in Vi's earpiece.
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* FloralThemeNaming: Violet and Daisy, and Kate's daughter Rosie.
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* MeaningfulRename: Kate's first name is Daisy. She started going by her middle name, Kathleen, because she was desperate to distance herself from her past, and because she thought Daisy was too hippie-ish.
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* MeaningfulRename: Kate's first name is Daisy. She started going by her middle name, Kathleen, because she was desperate to distance herself from her past, and because she thought Daisy was too hippie-ish.fanciful and lighthearted.
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* TalentContest: The twins participate in one during eighth grade, dancing to Music/BillyJoel's "You May Be Right." Their act is so well-received that Daisy is invited to [[AlphaBitch Marisa Mazarelli]]'s birthday party a few weeks later.
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* AgeGapRomance: The twins' parents, Earl and Rita, were born 23 17 years apart.
* DreamingOfThingsToCome: Kate's powers first became apparent at age four, when she woke up screaming from a nightmare about a burning house. The next night, another house on their block burned down.
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* LastMinuteBabyName: Justified with Kate. Earl and Rita had already settled on Violet or Victor for their child, but weren't expecting to have twins. It took them a few five days to choose a name for their younger daughter.
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* PsychicPowers: The twins characters call it "having senses.""
* ScreamingBirth: The epidural the twins' mother received only numbed half her body, causing her to be partly paralyzed and in excruciating pain throughout the birth and leaving her traumatized.
* ScreamingBirth: The epidural the twins' mother received only numbed half her body, causing her to be partly paralyzed and in excruciating pain throughout the birth and leaving her traumatized.
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* DoesNotDrive: Vi claims she's stopped driving because it's greener, but it's really because she's developed a phobia.
* {{Flashback}}: Even-numbered chapters take place in the present day, and odd-numbered chapters describe Kate and Vi's childhood and youth.
* {{Flashback}}: Even-numbered chapters take place in the present day, and odd-numbered chapters describe Kate and Vi's childhood and youth.
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''Sisterland'' is a 2013 novel by Curtis Sittenfeld. Kate Tucker and her identical twin Violet Shramm were both born with PsychicPowers, but while Vi has embraced her abilities and become a professional medium, Kate has suppressed hers and become an ordinary housewife. But after a minor earthquake hits St. Louis, Vi predicts that more serious earthquakes will occur in the future, and appears on television to warn as many people as possible. A few days later, Kate herself wakes up with the date October 16 in her head, which both twins think will be the date of the earthquake. As the date approaches, the publicity throws Kate's life of carefully cultivated normalcy into turmoil.
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!!''Sisterland'' contains examples of:
* TwentyMinutesIntoThePast: Most of the non-flashback chapters are set in 2009.
* AgeGapRomance: The twins' parents, Earl and Rita, were born 23 years apart.
* AlphaBitch: Marisa Mazarelli, the popular girl who outed the twins as psychic in eighth grade.
* AlwaysIdenticalTwins
* DistantPrologue: The book opens with a description of three devastating earthquakes that hit the Louisiana Territory in the early 1800s.
* MeaningfulRename: Kate's first name is Daisy. She started going by her middle name, Kathleen, because she was desperate to distance herself from her past, and because she thought Daisy was too hippie-ish.
* NiceGuy: Kate's husband Jeremy.
* PsychicPowers: The twins call it "having senses."
* ThemeTwinNaming: Violet and Daisy.
* TwinDesynch: The twins were practically impossible to tell apart as children, but once they hit puberty, Violet got a different haircut and started gaining weight faster than her sister. Now many people can't tell they're related.
* WhatIfTheBabyIsLikeMe: Kate was initially reluctant to have biological children for fear that they'd inherit her senses.
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!!''Sisterland'' contains examples of:
* TwentyMinutesIntoThePast: Most of the non-flashback chapters are set in 2009.
* AgeGapRomance: The twins' parents, Earl and Rita, were born 23 years apart.
* AlphaBitch: Marisa Mazarelli, the popular girl who outed the twins as psychic in eighth grade.
* AlwaysIdenticalTwins
* DistantPrologue: The book opens with a description of three devastating earthquakes that hit the Louisiana Territory in the early 1800s.
* MeaningfulRename: Kate's first name is Daisy. She started going by her middle name, Kathleen, because she was desperate to distance herself from her past, and because she thought Daisy was too hippie-ish.
* NiceGuy: Kate's husband Jeremy.
* PsychicPowers: The twins call it "having senses."
* ThemeTwinNaming: Violet and Daisy.
* TwinDesynch: The twins were practically impossible to tell apart as children, but once they hit puberty, Violet got a different haircut and started gaining weight faster than her sister. Now many people can't tell they're related.
* WhatIfTheBabyIsLikeMe: Kate was initially reluctant to have biological children for fear that they'd inherit her senses.
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