California twins born just 15 minutes apart, but in different years

[MissMillie]

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/twins-born-different-years-2020-2021/#textJanuary2032C202022202F20103A0420PM202F20CBS113A4520pm2C20the20Natividad20Medical20Center20announced20Sunday

Two fraternal twins in California were born just 15 minutes apart, yet their birthdays fall on different days, in different months and years.

Alfredo Trujillo was born on December 31, 2021 at 11:45 p.m., the Natividad Medical Center announced Sunday. His twin sister, Aylin Trujillo, was born 15 minutes later — right at midnight on January 1, 2022.

"It's crazy to me that they are twins and have different birthdays," their mother, Fatima Madrigal, said, according to the hospital. "I was surprised and happy that she arrived at midnight."


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estimated odds of twins being born in different years: 1 in 2,000,000

[Hortensis]

1. :) How nice. Their birthdays straddle these special days, so Alfredo

and Aylin and their family can celebrate them individually and/or as a two-day fest, as they choose. Salinas is just inland from Monterey Bay, California

[Brother Buzz]

5. Salinas was John Steinbeck's hometown

Curiously, Steinbeck's Opus, East Of Eden, was set in the Salinas Valley and had a pair of twins, too.

[Hortensis]

6. Oh, I'd forgotten. The delightful psychopathic creature our

hero fell desperately in love with. Great book, but. It still amazes me how often characters created by male authors and film makers of those days found mental dysfunction in women irresistibly alluring. And apparently not notably abnormal.

Pre- second wave.

[Brother Buzz]

9. Dysfunctionality is subjective, no?

I read East of Eden fifty years ago and everyone in it was dysfunctional in my mind. I did not enjoy reading the book the first time through, and only kinda appreciated it on the second visit.

Only after reading Renaissance Man of Cannery Row: The Life and Letters of Edward F. Ricketts did I come to embrace what Steinbeck was trying to do; I'm convinced I heard Doc Ricketts and Joseph Campbell whispering and kibitzing throughout the book.

Oh, but to invent a time machine so I could go back and be a fly on the wall for one of the Wednesday night meetings at the Pacific Biological Laboratories.

[Hortensis]

10. Oh, yes, but even better to belong at meetings like those. Next lifetime. :)

Can't agree dysfunctionality is really just subjective when someone keeps locking stray animals in cupboards and forgetting them, or more commonly can't hold a job consistently enough to pay for food and shelter because of chronic depression. Like pornography, it's subjective but you know it when you see it.

Cathy did do a lot better than that, stretching out a long decline that only ended in suicide years later, and she successfully hurt many others over that period; but all in all that qualifies her as severely dysfunctional by virtually any standard even if she did get away with murder and didn't end up freezing to death behind a dumpster.

These days her chronic traits would qualify her for formal diagnosis(es), probably including some form of malignant antisocial personality disorder like whatshisname.

Lol, speaking of, I'd like to see an author these days try to sell as believable and sympathetic even a female heroine who fell desperately in love with tRump and never realized there was anything seriously whacked about him -- or her.

[pandr32]

2. They'll love that their birthdays are their own

I'm a twin and it becomes a strong identity. People who are not twins cannot understand. Our mother exclaimed one day that we were almost born on different days and what that meant to me was that I would have had something my own--my own birthday. That sounded so wonderful.

[MissMillie]

3. I never minded sharing my birthday

I'm an identical twin.

Had to share my first name too. We have different middle names. (Yes, that has caused a lot of issues--I once registered to vote in a different state, and she got bumped off the voter rolls.)

[pandr32]

8. You must have used middle names

Same as me, but not the same reason.
I am a fraternal twin, but everything was for the both of us! Most gifts, at least.
We even shared a crib, and then a bed--one at one end and one on the other, so the small bed had two heads and no foot. Eventually we got bunk beds and that was heaven.

I fantasized about having my own birthday even though we mostly shared friends. Just that one thing would have been nice.

[vsrazdem]

4. It sucks for taxes this year.

[Totally Tunsie]

7. Why? No difference for this year - they claim two dependents for 2022,

plus, they can claim Alfredo for all of 2021!

[vsrazdem]

12. Yes, but it would have been 2 for this year filing if a few minutes earlier.

[Totally Tunsie]

13. Is your glass half full or half empty?

Consider Alfredo as the bonus baby for being deductible for 2021! They are twins, so probably delivered early...most likely they were due in 2022.

Their taxes for "this year" (your words) are unaffected - two babies, two deductions. It's last year's taxes - 2021 - that gets the bonus.

In other words, they came out ahead.

[vsrazdem]

14. I am referring to the taxes that we file this year which are for 2021.

[ARPad95]

11. My twin and I were born 364 days after our 1 year older sibling so for one day every year, the 3 of

us were the same age. (My twin is now deceased so that's why I use past tense.)

Another cool thing...my twin and I were pregnant at the same time and delivered our children 14 hours apart! Her child was born on Thursday night and mine on Friday morning. None of it was planned and she was in Florida and I'm in New York.