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Brilio.net - A rare moment at a high school graduation event is going viral in cyberspace. This rare moment shows the graduation of twin students from high school in Florida, United States. It's no surprise that the number of twin students who graduated was 14 pairs.
Reported by brilio.net from the New York Post news page, Thursday (13/6), at Cooper City High School in Cooper City, Florida, a rare moment occurred that will not be remembered forever. The reason is, 14 pairs of twins celebrated their graduation from the same school. Not only that, there was also a set of triplets who also graduated as the same class. This rare moment occurred last Wednesday (5/6).
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Cooper City High School principal Vera Perkovic said when she shakes one twin's hand and hands him a diploma, the other twin will soon come to do the same.
"This moment seems to symbolize that they are themselves, but also, they have been together for many years as twins," said Vera Perkovic, quoted from the New York Post page from today.com, Thursday (13/6).
This high school graduation may be the first time for them to separate to continue to the next level. After years together since elementary school, now the twins are ready to go their own way, whether it's college or going straight to work.
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Among the graduates were two sets of identical twins, one set of triplets and 12 sets of fraternal (non-identical) twins, local station NBC 6 in South Florida reported. One pair of identical twins is Gabrielle and Jocelyn Reed.
Aaron Reed, father of Gabrielle and Joeclyn, described this graduation moment as extraordinary and unique, considering how challenging it is to raise twins with all the multiple experiences that come with it.
The father said that Gabrielle and Jocelyn had attended school together since pre-kindergarten. However, next August, the two of them will start a new journey by going their separate ways to attend college. Reportedly, Gabrielle will continue her studies at Cornell University, while Jocelyn will study at Washington University in St. Louis. Louis, Missouri.
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Gabrielle expressed her happiness at being able to go to a different place and live independently, feeling that she had often been compared to her twin sister and not considered a separate individual.
Jocelyn herself, who is the editor of the Cooper City High School yearbook, always remembers the number of twins in her class. However, it wasn't until they were all gathered in one room that he realized how special it was to have so many twin friends in one class.
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Jocelyn also noted that as twins, they were often treated like a sideshow by people. Therefore, seeing so many twins in one class is an amazing experience.
Meanwhile, the Cooper City High School Foundation, Broward County Public Schools believes that the graduation may have broken a county record, with the most sets of twins graduating simultaneously from one school. Not only that, some students created a special slogan to commemorate their unique graduation: "Twice as fun and three times as fun."
(brl/psa)
