Identical twin sisters Elizabeth and Eleanor (not their real names) say that when they entered the world on November 19, 1939—Elizabeth first, then Eleanor 8 minutes later—their mother was rather shocked. She’d been expecting just one baby, not two. But that day, she made a vow: The girls would always be treated the same, so that there would be no competition between them.
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