Robin Scholz
Clockwise from upper left, John, Edward, Rachel and Robert Pacey on the 'Tree of Life Fantasy' sculpture outside the education building on the University of Illinois campus. The quadruplets graduate this weekend from the UI.
PAXTON – Twenty-two years ago this week, the last of the Pacey quadruplets came home from the hospital.
It was a sweet Mother's Day for their parents, Brenda Pacey, a librarian, and her husband, Paxton attorney Steve Pacey, who had waited anxiously while their children's tiny lungs grew strong enough to let them breathe on their own.
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