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418 CHAPTER 10 PersonalityThe Twins Julian (left) and Kenneth (right),with their father, Henry, when they wereabout 10 years old. As boys, Kenneth andJulian were inseparable.He found them in Tennessee. A fewmonths after Julian left Iowa, Henryreceived word that Julian had beenarrested for armed robbery and sentencedto 15 years in a Tennessee state prison.Though Kenneth was only 22 years old,Henry gave him a large sum of money andthe family car and sent him to try to getJulian released.Kenneth’s conversation with the judge inKnoxville was the first of many times thathe would deal with the judicial system onsomeone else’s behalf. After much negotiation,the judge agreed: If Julian promisedto leave Tennessee and never return, andKenneth paid the cash “fines,” Julianwould be released from prison.When Julian walked through the prisongates the next morning, Kenneth stoodwaiting with a fresh suit of clothes. “Motherand Father want you to come back toGrinnell,” he told Julian. But Julian wouldnot hear of it, saying that instead he wantedto go to California to seek his fortune.“I can’t let you do that, Julian,” Kennethsaid, looking hard at his twin brother.“You can’t stop me, brother,” Julianresponded, with a cocky smile. Reluctantly,Kenneth kept just enough money to buyhimself a train ticket back to Iowa. Hegave Julian the rest of the money and thefamily car.Julian got as far as Phoenix, Arizona,before he met his destiny. In broad daylight,he robbed a drugstore at gunpoint. As hebacked out of the store, a policeman spottedhim. A gun battle followed, and Julian wasshot twice. Somehow he managed toescape and holed up in a hotel room. Aloneand untended, Julian died two days laterfrom the bullet wounds. Once again,Kenneth was sent to retrieve his twinbrother.On a bitterly cold November morning in1928, Julian’s immediate family laid him torest in the family plot in Grinnell. On theone hand, Kenneth felt largely responsiblefor Julian’s misguided life. “I should havetried harder to help Julian,” Kenneth laterreflected. On the other hand, Julian haddisgraced the family. From the day Julianwas buried, the family never spoke of himagain, not even in private.Kenneth took it upon himself to atonefor the failings of his twin brother. In thefall of 1929, Kenneth entered law schoolin Tennessee—the same state from whichhe had secured Julian’s release fromprison. Three years later, at the height ofthe Great Depression, Kenneth establishedhimself as a lawyer in Sioux City,Iowa, where he would practice law formore than 50 years.As an attorney, Kenneth Hockenburywas known for his integrity, his intensity inthe courtroom, and his willingness to takecases regardless of the client’s ability topay. “Someone must defend the poor,” hesaid repeatedly. In lieu of money, he oftenaccepted labor from a working man orproduce from farmers.Almost sixty years after Julian’s death,Kenneth died. But unlike the sparse gatheringthat had attended Julian’s burial, scores ofpeople came to pay their last respects toKenneth Hockenbury. “Your father helped meso much,” stranger after stranger told Don atKenneth’s funeral. Without question, Kennethhad devoted his life to helping others.Why did Kenneth and Julian turn out sodifferently? Two boys, born on the sameday into the same middle-class family.Kenneth the conscientious, serious one;Julian the laughing boy with mischief in hiseyes. How can we explain the fundamentaldifferences in their personalities?No doubt your family, too, is made upof people with very different personalities.By the end of this chapter, you’ll have amuch greater appreciation for howpsychologists explain such personalitydifferences.