I used to think I was pretty unique. But not so much anymore. I am a twin. My identical brother looks enough like me that we have fooled people on occasion into thinking they were face-to-face with the other. How can an identical twin feel unique? Well, it so happens that I was born one minute before midnight, my brother following 15 minutes the other side. We have separate birthdays. A college professor once told me that he estimated that only 1 pair out of 1,500 had separate birthdays, making us rare indeed. But now after reading an Associated Press story, I'm feeling rather ordinary. In a story filed on Jan. 4, AP medical writer Mike Strobbel relayed "In 2009, 1 in every 30 babies born in the U.S. was a twin, an astounding increase over the 1 in 53 rate in 1980, according to a government report"/Jerry Hitchcock, Coeur d'Alene Press. More here. (AP file photo: Identical twins Kira, left and Kendra Ridgley, 3, share a multi-colored popsicle outside a Bayer's Road convenience store in west-end Halifax, Canada)

Question: Do you have any twins in your family?