Told By Mary Lemke

Back row lt to rt: Mary (holding Micah), Jeff, Matt, Melissa (holding Evelyn); front row lt to rt: Patience, Isaiah, Grace, Adelaide, Hope

It was our second year attending the Twins Days Festival in Twinsburg, Ohio. Unbeknownst to us, it was also Jeff and Matt’s second year.  First, let me back up a bit.

As identical twins, Melissa and I were very close.  We went to college together, worked as registered nurses in the same intensive care unit on the same shifts, had matching cars, and even bought a house together.  We wanted to get married someday, but men can be intimidated by the twin bond, so we weren’t sure how that would happen.  People often joked that we needed to find some nice guy twins, and we knew that would be a dream come true and a prayer answered.  We were living a fairly normal life together, filling our spare time with our dogs and horses.  We even published a novel together, “Daisy’s Dreams.”  But everything changed the day we met Jeff and Matt. More