“I’m younger than you!” gloats Lyndsey.<\/p>\n
“I was born a minute later,” snaps Lynnette.<\/p>\n
“Took myself a little trip to Europa,” Lyndsey’s laugh crackles over the spacephone. “Near lightspeed. Time dilation, baby. Lost a month!”<\/p>\n
“Beat you by six,” says Lynnette, much later, from Pluto.<\/p>\n
“Two years!” retorts Lyndsey, from Rupert.<\/p>\n
They leave for Alpha Centauri within days of each other, but when they meet again Lyndsey’s losing.<\/p>\n
“We’ve still got the same DNA.” Lynnette’s smirk is too old for her face. “It’s perfectly legal.”<\/p>\n
“Your brain in a clone body is not<\/i> a twin!” fumes Lyndsey.<\/p>\n
“You’re right. We’re dectuplets.”<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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