Sets of twins face off for prizes in different categories
By Paul Wood
Monday April 24, 2006
Heather Coit
Five-year-old twins Mariya and Taelyn Harris play with 13-month-old twins Kinsey and Krysten Alyea during the 42nd annual Illinois State Twins Convention at the Holiday Inn in Urbana on Sunday.
URBANA – It is a tradition both honored and inevitable in the annals of daily journalism that if a twins convention should come to town, and it will come to town, the story will begin with a joke, pun or pop culture reference, such as Doublemint gum or a best-forgotten Foreigner song.
And that was the case Sunday, when if you were at the Holiday Inn in Urbana, you were seeing double – times two! – or more!
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