All in The Family

How does that gutsy South Dakota grandma feel about being pregnant with her daughter's twins?

MOM PREGNANT WITH HER OWN GRANDKIDS!

TWO-HEADED MOTHER GIVES BIRTH TO TWINS!

Eyes twinkling, hands folded across her swelling belly, Arlette Schweitzer imagines the headlines a tabloid might concoct to sensationalize her admittedly unusual condition. The exercise amuses her no end -- probably because there is nothing the least bit bizarre about this cheerful 42-year-old librarian who lives with her husband Dan, a fluffy white cat named Boom Boom and a cocker spaniel named Special on a tree-lined street in Aberdeen, S. Dak. What a visitor notices above all in their cozy, split-level house is the photographs of smiling kids: grandchildren,...

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