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The general opinion seems to be that twins must be a terrible nuisance to have on hand in an otherwise well-regulated home, particularly while they are very young. People spoke to us of the twins as if we had acquired a couple of full-grown alligators or a pair of African elephants. They seemed to take it for granted that we would be completely incapacitated for the ordinary human activities for ten or twenty years at least.

I blame Shakespeare for this widely spread notion. One of the cyclopedias says of Shakespeare, "Susanna was born May 26th, 1583, and on Feb. 2d, 1585, twins -- Hamnet and Judith. About 1587 Shakespeare went to London." This sounds as if he went to London because he could not stand the twins; but I don't believe it. It only means that the twins were old enough to wear shoes and Shakespeare had to earn more money.

Excerpted from How It Feels To Be The Father Of Twins, by Ellis Parker Butler in American Magazine.

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