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‘Magnificent Nine’ Babies Are Now Adults

Twin sisters Taelyn, left, and Mariya Harris are shown a day before their 18th birthday at their home in Georgetown, Ill. They are two of the ‘Magnificent Nine’ — three sets of twins and one set of triplets all born in the same 24-hour period on Jan. 9-10, 2001, at Carle Foundation Hospital in Urbana, Ill. AP Photo
Darrin Dohme, center, has his hands full with son Dylan, as wife Julle, left, holds Jacob and their triplets’ godmother, Tena Fowler of right, holds Caroline during a first-anniversary reunion of the ‘Magnificent Nine’ — three sets of twins and a set of triplets all born in the same 24-hour period on Jan. 9-10, 2001, at Carle Foundation Hospital in Urbana — on Thursday, Jan. 10, 2002, in Urbana, Ill. Joining them on the couch are, from left, twin sisters Mariya and Taelyn Harris of Georgetown; twin brothers David and Daniel Ekstam of Champaign; and Quinn Gard and his twin sister, Carrigan, of Danville all frrom Illinois. AP Photo
URBANA, Ill. (AP) — They don’t remember, of course, but 18 years ago, a group of newborn twins and triplets made big baby news across…

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