Authored by Mark Jeftovic via BombThrower.com,

Roger and Reggie were identical twin brothers, born in Merrickville, Ontario around 1980.

They both had normal school trajectories, even sharing an apartment through college – Roger taking computer programming and Reggie electronics engineering. The brothers seemed well positioned to enjoy reasonably affluent lives, having secured high-tech vocations in an increasingly digitized world.

They're in their early 50's now and it's hard to say exactly where their lives diverged – this is not a "separated at birth" story. They were separated by something else.

Here in 2033, both of them are married – or least got married. Reggie's wife left him in the late 20's. She gave numerous reasons why "she couldn't take it any more", but statistically, financial stress overtook infidelity as the number one cause of divorce around the time of the first climate lockdowns.