Identical Twins marry, give birth to identical twins

[Marilyn. 340]

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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[chri'stina 190]

Wow!

[Jenn! 918]

The ladies don't look identical - one is so much shorter.

[HAL 9000 96]

The ladies don't look identical - one is so much shorter.

The difference between them may be due to how they've handled environmental conditions beyond their genetic identities. But even with identical twins, some genes get expressed more so than others in different combinations.

But yeah I'd probably say they're fraternal twins.

Pretty awesome though... fertility drugs (if taken) aside and all... twins marrying twins and both having twins...

[Marilyn. 340]

The ladies don't look identical - one is so much shorter.

the one twin is slouched over a bit...

plus the fact that they are standing on a hill and the one twin is on the edge of it ..

Edited September 22, 2008 by *Marilyn*

[HAL 9000 96]

The ladies don't look identical - one is so much shorter.

the one twin is slouched over a bit...

plus the fact that they are standing on a hill and the one twin is on the edge of it ..

And the hairstlez sez it too.

[Saddle Bronc 124]

The ladies don't look identical - one is so much shorter.

Maybe different in-utero exposure to environmental factors?

(pilfered from Kollywood "logic", of course).

[akdiver 3]

#######...I thought it was going to say that identical twins married EACH OTHER.

Such a tease.