Seeing double: 35 sets of twins set to graduate from Texas school district
MANSFIELD, Texas – A North Texas school district will graduate a staggering 35 pairs of twins in its 2022 senior class, with a set of triplets also slated to collect their diplomas.
On Friday, the Mansfield Independent School District held a special photo shoot exclusively for the multiples, KTVT reported.
“Watching them interact was a lot of fun. There’s no question, multiples have a special connection,” parent Matt Slimak told Today.
Slimak’s 17-year-old identical twin daughters, Keaton and Avery, are seniors at Mansfield High School, soon to become roommates at the University of Texas at Austin.
Meanwhile, Anthony and Angela Morka, both seniors at Lake Ridge High School, may experience a little separation anxiety with 1,700 miles separating their divergent paths to the University of Houston and Yale University, respectively.
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“Being so far away from each other will definitely be an adjustment, but I know they’ll be on the phone. They will be cheering each other on just like always,” their mother, Stella Roberson, told Today.
Angela Morka told KTVT that the transition will be bittersweet.
“Knowing that it’s almost over is exciting, but it’s also kind of sad,” she told the TV station.
According to Today, 15 sets of twins graduated from Iowa’s Valley High School in 2015, and three years later, New Trier High School in Illinois earned a Guinness World Record with 44 sets of twins and one set of triplets in its sophomore class.
