The Twins Reunion Became A Triplet Reunion

Further to my previous post Coincidence Leads To Twins Reunion there is more to this story than I first thought. Several people contacted me about this. It appears that the coincidence is well known on the US and has been reported on television. Peter Shafran directed me to more information.

After the two 'twins' Robert Shafran and Eddy Galland re-united this made headlines in some newspapers. So much so that a David Kellman, a student at Queens College, contacted Shafran and Galland telling them that he also looked very much like them. This became quite a story as this had now become a reuniting of triplets.

According to Newsday the triplets had a natural sense of humour and started making the television talk-show rounds 'and even landed bit parts in the movie Desperately Seeking Susan' and on the TV show, Cheers.

Sadly though 'the laugh track went silent in 1995, when Galland committed suicide at his Maplewood, N.J., home.'

My thanks to all, mostly through Google+, who got in touch with me about the story.

The Coincidence Of The Triplets Babies

Todays post is about the closeness and coincidences of triplets.

Natalie, Lindsey and Deborah were in rooms 21, 22 and 23 in a Sydney hospital. The three 26 year olds are identical triplets and the room numbers coincidentally corresponded with the order in which they were born. They were in hospital - to give birth to their own children.

On April 17th this year two of them had their babies within hours of each other and the other was just two weeks behind. All three had boys.

None of this was planned, it just happened. One of the triplets, Natalie, explained about the coincidence, "All the nurses thought it was ridiculous, but it was meant to be for us to share this experience together. It's not like we all sat down and worked it out on a calendar."

And, of course, when they each individually went shopping for baby clothes they bought matching outfits for the babies, without talking about it to each other.

The triplets parents weren't surprised by this. Their father Rob said, "At Christmas time they buy us Christmas cards, exactly the same, and they would never have even discussed which one they were going to buy, it would just be the same one.

The three new mums are always in touch as they live just 15 minutes distance from each other and speak on the phone to each other several times a day.

Natalie, Lindsey and Deborah were born on the Isle of Man, UK but moved near to Sydney in Australia with their parents when they were four years old.

There is definitely some sort of special psychic link between them - after all, they even all got pregnant at the same time!

Photo by Anne Geddes for a television series she is working on called 'My Pregnancy' for Australian television.