I don't know but I've been told

As a non-native speaker of Spanish, I am often told one of two things:

• "Wow, you don't even have an accent!"

Or, conversely:

• "You never lose the accent!"
  

Similarly, people who know us both generally either agree that my sister Lisa and I look very much alike, or absolutely nothing alike.

(That we sound alike has been extensively documented, not only by unsuspecting telephone callers, but also by an independent study involving the numerous individuals who were monitoring the internal radio frequency at a certain state zoo one particular afternoon of one particular day and were never the wiser.)

In the case of our physical appearance, many people are led astray by the fact that her hair looks like this:


While mine looks like this:


However, I would like to submit that, if one is able to get past the hair, we both pretty much look like this:


That's me on the left, taken last night by Dad, and her on the right, taken by Mom earlier this year. Sorry it's blurry - I had to biggify it a little.

Here's the original shot of me, plus another one just for fun.