Sweet! Twin sisters Grace Stokes and Elspeth Hall, 70, had a double wedding and are now celebrating their 50th anniversaries. They even received a letter from Queen Elizabeth because of their special story. My favorite part of the article:
Elspeth said: “We did think we might have separate ceremonies as we wanted to be married at different times of the year.
“But my dad told us, ‘You came into the house together, so you should leave the house together’ – and that was it’.”
Another anniversary, this one from Canada.com: Colin and Gregory Rankin are Canada’s first IVF twins. They just turned 25. From the article:
In Canada alone, there are now 28 IVF clinics across the country, and the 2004 numbers – the latest available – show that almost 2,000 babies were born through IVF that year.
But for Colin and Greg, who are planning to go on a road trip later this summer to make up for their lacklustre 25th birthday celebration, the significance of their birth is enough to make them a bit philosophical at times.
“Hundreds of thousands of babies are born through IVF every year, and it’s crazy to think we were one of the first,” Colin said.
“But if you think about it, anybody being born and turning out the way they are is a one-in-a-million chance, so I think Greg and I being born is just one out of a billion – just a few zeros away.”