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CAPE FEAR MEMORIAL BRIDGE CLOSURE: UPDATES, RESOURCES, AND CONTEXT

The Dionne Quintuplets

The Dionne Quintuplets
The Dionne Quintuplets

"They were the princesses of the Depression, featured in four Hollywood films by the time they were four years old."

By Nan Graham

http://stream.publicbroadcasting.net/production/mp3/national/local-national-817750.mp3

Multiple births might be portents of good or evil. Ancient Mayans saw twins as a gift: one soul fragmented. Identical twin boys, (think Romulus and Remus) were deemed a blessing by the Romans.

Nan Graham's website is nangraham.com

Nan Graham has deep roots in Alabama and Carolina soil. She graduated from Tuscaloosa High School and attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where she graduated with an AB in English. She obtained her Masters degree from The Citadel in Charleston. In 1995 Nan began broadcasting her bi- weekly commentaries on WHQR Public Radio in Wilmington. She continues these bi-weekly broadcasts along with teaching at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington in the Honors College. She has taught for thirty-eight years...everything from first grade to graduate level university courses...(the last is far easier than first grade!).