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  • IT'S LEAP DAY AND THREE

  • COUSINS IN MICHIGAN ARE ALL

  • CELEBRATING THEIR BIRTHDAYS

  • TODAY--IT'S A COINCIDENCE THEY

  • SAY THEY'RE EXTREMELY THANKFUL

  • FOR.NEWS 8'S DANA WHYTE IS

  • LIVE IN OUR STUDIO WITH THE

  • STORY.DANA?

  • 3

  • WHAT ARE THE ODDS OF BEING

  • BORN ON LEAP DAY?WELL --

  • ACCORDING TO THE MATH --

  • THAT'S ONE IN ONE

  • THOUSAND-FOUR HUNDRED-AND

  • SIXTY ONE.AND FOR THESE THREE

  • COUSINS -- THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT

  • HAPPENED TO THEM

  • 3

  • 7:21:56ááNATS OF LAUGHINGáá

  • 7:17:58MARTIN: "WE WERE KIND

  • OF PLANNED TO BE YOU KNOW BACK

  • THEN THEY HAD CHILD'S

  • TOGETHER, THAT'S WHAT THE

  • FAMILIES DID, THEY PLANNED

  • STUFF, BUT IT WASN'T PLANNED

  • TO HAVE IT ON THAT DAY."ON

  • FEBRUARY 29TH -- 1972 -- DAWN

  • HOPKINS WAS BORN -- AND

  • 3

  • THEN JUST A FEW HOURS LATER --

  • SO WAS HER COUSIN -- MARTIN.

  • 7:16:38MARTIN: "I WAS ALMOST

  • BORN IN THE ELEVATOR AND I WAS

  • RUSHED RIGHT IN AND BORN LIKE

  • AT RIGHT IN AND BORN LIKE AT

  • 12:30"BUT.... THE FAMILY STILL

  • HAD ROOM FOR ONE MORE LEAP DAY

  • BABY...BRANDY.7:18:20BRANDY:

  • "THEN 12 YEARS LATER I JUST

  • SHOWED UP ON THE SAME DAY."

  • 7:17:40DAWN: "HIS DAD WOULD BE

  • MY MOM'S UNCLE THEN HER MOM

  • WOULD BE MY MOM'S COUSIN."

  • 7:23:45ááNAT: HM, REMEMBER

  • THAT? I DON'T REMEMBER SEEING

  • THAT ONE. WHO IS THAT? THAT'S

  • MEááEVEN THOUGH THEY WERE BORN

  • DECADES AGO...7:20:20BRANDY:

  • "I'M TURNING NINE. I'VE ONLY

  • HAD NINE BIRTHDAYS." MARTIN:

  • "AND I'VE ONLY HAD 12." DAWN:

  • "AND ME ALSO." MARTIN: "YUP SO

  • THAT REPRESENTS HOW ONLY WE

  • ARE TODAY."SO...WHEN DO THEY

  • CELEBRATE WHEN IT'S NOT A LEAP

  • YEAR?7:21:08MARTIN: "I

  • CELEBRATE ON THE 28TH, YOU?"

  • BRANDY: "I DO A WHOLE BIRTHDAY

  • WEEKEND, THAT'S WHAT I DO."

  • DAWN: "YEAH ME TOO, GOT TO

  • TAKE ADVANTAGE OF IT. áLAUGHSá"

  • AND THESE THREE SAY WHILE

  • THEY'RE ONLY TURNING A TOTAL

  • OF 33 YEARS-OLD TOGETHER --

  • THE ACTUALLY BIRTHDAYS THEY DO

  • HAVE ARE PRICELESS.7:20:13

  • DAWN: "HAVING COUSINS TO

  • CELEBRATE ON THE SAME DAY IS

  • FUN."

  • 3

  • BRANDY, MARTIN,

  • 3

  • AND DAWN ALSO TOLD ME THAT IS

  • THE FIRST YEAR THEY'VE ALL

  • GOTTEN TOGETHER FOR THEIR

  • BIRTHDAYS IN A WHILE --SO

  • THEY'RE EXCITED TO MAKE EVEN

  • MORE MEMORIES.(CHAT)

  • 3

  • JUSTIN:..

IT'S LEAP DAY AND THREE

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