This weekend is graduation day at a high school in the New York City suburbs, where 30 of the almost 500 graduating students are twins.
They are a close-knit group.
Some of the students at Plainview-Old Bethpage John F. Kennedy High School on Long Island have known one another since kindergarten, thanks to a local twins club that brought their parents together. Some even continue to organize family getaways.
As graduation day draws near, several of the twins are currently coping with their newfound fame by participating in a group text chain.
Sydney Monka, who was at the graduation rehearsal with the other twins earlier this week, remarked, “Honestly, when we’re together, the room is electric.”
We are all bouncing off one another since we are all quite at ease with one another and have similar experiences. It’s truly awesome.
Despite not being identical, they are twins.
When the couples walk the stage for their high school graduation on Sunday at Hofstra University in Hempstead, they might be difficult to identify unless they have the same last name.
None of the students are alike since they are all fraternal twins, which means they were created from distinct sperm and eggs.
The genders of several of the twins are different.
Bari Cohen, who will be attending Indiana University in the fall, believes it doesn’t lessen the closeness of the ties.
Regarding her brother, Braydon Cohen, who is enrolled at the University of Pittsburgh, she stated, “Especially for boy-girl twins, a lot of people think it’s just, like, siblings, but it’s more than that, because we go through the same things at the same time.”
The high school is situated in a wealthy, predominantly white neighborhood around 35 miles (56 kilometers) east of Manhattan, and most people, when questioned, shrug their shoulders at the oddity.
Echoing the twins’ familiar refrain, Emily Brake, a University of Georgia student, remarked, “I guess there’s just something in the water.”
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We’re all extremely fortunate. Her sister, Amanda Brake, who will be attending Ohio State University, added, “We’re all just very lucky. I think it’s just a coincidence.”
Others admit that Mother Nature isn’t the only force at play. According to Arianna Cammareri, in vitro fertilization was her parents’ last resort after years of attempting to conceive.
IVF infants were more likely to be twins or triplets back then than they are now. Additionally, a hereditary component might be involved.
The incoming student at Stony Brook University, located on Long Island, continued, “There’s a few twins in our family, like I have cousins that are twins, so I guess that raised the chances of having twins.”
There are often large twin cohorts at Plainview-Old Bethpage.
According to school authorities, the high school had back-to-back graduating classes in 2014 and 2015 with ten sets of multiples, and the incoming freshmen class next year has nine sets of twins.
Other schools across the nation with large graduating twin sets include Eleanor Roosevelt High School in Greenbelt, Maryland, with 10 pairs, and Clovis North High School in Fresno, California, with 14 pairs.
Although it is still far off the record for the most multiples in the same scholastic class, a middle school in suburban Boston had 23 sets of twins in its graduating class last year.
According to Guinness World Records, New Trier High School in Winnetka, Illinois, produced an incredible 44 pairs of twins and a set of triplets in 2017.
The majority of the twins at Plainview-Old Bethpage are leaving for various colleges after graduation.
Aiden and Chloe Manzo are an exception. They will both be attending the University of Florida, where they will share a dorm on campus and pursue business as their major.
Chloe remarked cynically, “We’re going to see each other a lot.
“Deep down, my mom knew it would be easier if we went to the same school,” she continued.
