You
 don’t see identical twins everyday. The chances of having identical 
twins is 3 in 1000 so it’s not something that happens everyday and that 
makes them something special, in my book. I actually lived in Twinsburg,
 Ohio for a year, which is where they hold an annual twins convention, 
which made this story even more interesting to me.
Identical
 twin
 brothers, Mark and Craig Sanders were at the annual twins 
convention in Twinsburg, Ohio in 1998 when Mark met Darlene Nettemeier 
in the hotel lobby. Darlene and her identical twin sister, Diana, were 
visiting relatives who lived near the convention and decided to stop by.
Mark
 experienced love at first sight when he met Darlene and he wanted to 
introduce his brother, Craig, to Darlene’s identical twin sister, Diane.
 To make a long story short, two brothers met their identical twin soul 
mate sisters. After dating for a while, the men proposed to the ladies 
on the same day, with the exact same engagement ring.
To
 take the identical twin theme even a bit further, they had a double 
wedding and the ladies even wore the exact same dress design and their 
father walked them both down the aisle together in 1999. But, they 
didn't stop there with twins...
In
 2001, Craig and Diane gave birth to identical twin boys, Colby and 
Brady. What are the odds? Glad you asked. The odds of identical twin 
brothers, marrying identical twin sisters and then one of the couples 
giving birth to identical twin sons in one in millions.
Mark
 and Darlene have 2 little girls and Craig and Diane have the identical 
twin boys and another son. Due to genetic makeup, all five of the 
children are technically considered siblings but reason, and the fact 
that they have different parents, makes them cousins. If your mind is 
not completely blown away by this family and you are not seeing double 
yet, the families live next door to one another in Houston. Holy smokes,
 it must be hard to have an identity of your own in that family. 
Then 
again, wouldn’t it be awesome to have two of you?
I’m
 not a twin but I would think that after awhile you would want to stop 
having who you are permanently tethered to someone else. I think this 
story is very cool but if I had a sister, who looked just like me, 
living right next door with her husband that looked just like mine, I’d 
feel like I was always being compared to her and that would get old 
really fast. I’d imagine the price of having a built in best friend is 
losing some of your own independence and identity.
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