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London Couple Has 2nd Set Of Twins… 1 Black, 1 White…

January 3, 2009 by TMA  
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Wow… What are the odds?

LONDON (AP) — A mixed-race British couple has defied the odds — twice — by producing two sets of twins in which one sibling appears to be black and the other white. Dean Durrant’s newborn daughter Miya has dark skin like him. Twin sister Leah has fair skin like her blue-eyed, red-haired mother, Alison Spooner.

Their older siblings Lauren and Hayleigh, born in 2001, also have strikingly different skin tones and eye colors. “There’s no easy way to explain it all. I’m still in shock myself,” Durrant, 33, told Sky News on Wednesday.

Both sets of twins are fraternal rather than identical, meaning they are the product of two separately fertilized eggs, so it is not unusual that they don’t look alike. Miya’s skin color was more influenced by her father’s genes, while Leah takes after her mother.

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2 Responses to “London Couple Has 2nd Set Of Twins… 1 Black, 1 White…”
  1. theHustleHER says:

    the odds used to be like 1 million : 1 but then that other mulatto couple had it happen… then i think there was another couple… then them above… so like 3x in like 5 years… some1s prob redoing the odds.

  2. Ummmmmmm says:

    Wow

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