What surface forms when you glue opposite sides of a rectangle together, introducing a half twist for both gluings?

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I'm aware that when you glue the ends of a rectangle together normally, you get a torus. I'm also aware that when you glue the ends of a rectangle together while introducing a half-twist to one of the sides, you get a Klein Bottle. The way that each of these things gets glued makes sense to me, and the homeomorphism is pretty clear.

But what happens when you try and introduce a half twist to both sides? Is it even possible to do this? I've been fiddling around with cut-and-paste methods to work out what this might be and I'm coming out inconclusive.

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It's the real projective plane. Its Wikipedia page provides diagrams much the same as yours.