Anne LeGare

Here’s an article from the Copperas Cove Leader Press in @ 2003.

By KRISTAN HALL
News editor – Halstead Elementary is overrun this year. Overrun, not with varmints, but with twins. Halstead has eleven sets of twins enrolled this academic year, a record number.

Aubrey and Alyssa Odum are seven-year-old twins who were born five minutes apart. Alyssa, who is older by five minutes, likes being a twin. “It gives me someone to play with,” she says.

Nine-year-old twins Breanna and Breonne Ande like being twins as well, though Breonne does admit, “Sometimes my mom calls me Breanna instead of Breonne.” Breanna is older by one minute.

Identical eight-year-old twins Maria and Anna Joseph love being twins. Says Anna, the younger twin – by one hour and one minute, “I love being a twin because when our brother is being mean, we still have someone to play with.”
Maria adds that it’s easier to talk to other twins. “Plus when you need to find one twin, you already know what she looks like,” she reports.

Although the girls say they aren’t mistaken for each other very often, Maria did pretend to be Anna once. “One time Maria told her teacher she was me,” says Anna. “It was funny,” giggles Maria. Until mom found out. Will Maria pretend to be Anna again? “Maybe not,” she says.

While eight-year-old twin Nisha Davis likes being a twin, her younger, by 11 minutes, sister doesn’t. “They always get me and her mixed up,” she grumbles. The duo are fraternal twins.

Identical five-year-old twins Hannah and Joanna Legare are often “mixed up” as well, they say. “I’m not Hannah,” states Joanna, the older twin.

Devin and Dane Parsons are the only twins that have one boy and one girl in the set. Eight-year-old Devin only likes being a twin sometimes, but loves being in a school with so many other twins. “You can make other twin friends,” he declares.

Other twins attending Halstead are four-year-olds Sebahn and Ayanna Baxter, four-year-olds Ryan and Aaron Brumels, six-year-olds Sydney and Taylor Phillips, five-year-olds Ashley and Asia Hemphill, and seven-year-olds Celia and Sonia Leslie, all identical.

Halstead Principal Coley Howell likes having a school full of twins. “It’s wonderful to have so many different sets of twins,” he states. The most sets of twins Halstead has ever had at one time is six, he says. He adds that the twins’ parents have been wonderful to work with.