Identical Twins Marry, Give Birth To Identical Twins
When identical twin sisters Diane and Darlene Nettemeier met identical twin brothers Craig and Mark Sanders a decade ago, they could never have guessed just how much of their lives would be based around perfect sets of two.
The sets of twins, from Texas, fell in love, went on a double date to Las Vegas, and won thousands of dollars at poker.
Sensing they were on a winning streak, they got engaged on the same day, married at a joint ceremony (officially “quarternary marriages”), and built a pair of homes, side by side.
Soon afterwards, despite a million-to-one odds, Diane and Craig went on to have identical twins of their own - Colby and Brady, now seven.
But the happy unions weren’t all down to incredible odds - one decade after they started dating Craig, 44, and Diane, 37, are returning to the Twin Day festival in Twinsburg, Ohio, where they met in 1998.
This year they will be taking their own seven-year-old boys to celebrate their good fortune at being part of a double double-act.
Twin Days are annual gatherings in which genetically identical siblings gather, in matching outfits, to celebrate sameness.
Five weeks after meeting “the girls”, the Sanders twins went to visit them in St Louis, where the sisters lived together, and had their first kisses in the Busch Stadium parking lot after watching the Astros play the Cardinals in baseball.
The following winter, the sisters went to visit the brothers in Houston, where they celebrated New Year’s Eve at a restaurant called Sabine– because it was owned by twins, naturally.
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About as close as you can get to legal incest
July 22nd, 2008 at 10:21 pmI find that somehow veeeery creepy.
July 23rd, 2008 at 4:20 amI said “good news”, the Brits are reproducing themselves by double standards
July 23rd, 2008 at 5:43 amThis is actually the second story I have heard like this, twin brothers marrying twin sisters … and both couples had identical twin births around the same time (this was long enough ago that those children are adults now) …
It was on one of those afternoon, Oprah-ish TV shows … and there was a geneticist on that said the couples’ sets of twins were so close in DNA that they COULD be considered ‘displaced’ siblings …
July 23rd, 2008 at 7:48 amI said “good news”, the Brits are reproducing themselves by double standards
July 23rd, 2008 at 5:43 am
I couldn’t follow how one man could have written so much rubbish when I read what you wrote about the EU and the UK earlier. Now I understand it is because you can’t read. The article clearly states they are from Texas you mong.
July 23rd, 2008 at 8:30 am