It's rare to have two sets of natural twins. It's even more rare for the babies to be born of different color (one black and one white). Well, a mixed-race British couple Dean Durrant (black) and Alison Spooner (white) had that happen--twice! Dr. Sarah Jarvis of Britain's Royal College of General Practitioners is quoted in an MSNBC article as saying, "Non-identical twins from mixed parents, of different races, less common still. To have two eggs fertilized and come out different colors, less common still. So, to have it happen twice must be one in millions." It's so rare that the article says there is no statistical data for this phenomenon. However, scientists believe that this might become slightly more common as more mixed-race couples continue to marry.

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