Looking around, it is hard not to see when two or more people look alike. Sometimes the slight differences are noticeible, and sometimes it takes a second glance to notice any difference at all. At East, there are many sets of twins and even one set of triplets, both identical and fraternal.

“It is really cool to be a twin,” junior Chase Rody said.

Sophomores Lindsey, Christine and Sara Vance are the only triplets and juniors Chance and Chase Rody are one of the sets of twins here at East. Lindsey, Christine and Sara Vance are fraternal triplets and Chance and Chase Rody are fraternal twins.

“Well, I’ve never known anything besides being a triplet,” sophomore Sara Vance said. “It’s like having a built-in two best friends.”

Being a twin means growing up with another person who is the same age and when people are nearer in ages they tend to get along or have some similar interest. That is why people think that twins have a special power of communicating, but it’s just they bond they have created during the years.

“My brother and I tend to get along and bond differently than my stepsister,” Chase Rody said.

Although twins and triplets were born on the same day or around the same time that does not mean they are the same person. They might hang around each other and even say or do some of the same things, but they also have different personalities like everyone else.

“We don’t have much [in common], other than we like gaming,” Chase Rody said.

Having different personalities doesn’t mean that they don’t have similar interests. Lindsey, Sara and Christine are all into music.

“We have some similar interests such as music and we all play instruments,” Sara Vance said.

Birthdays are some of the things that many people ask twins about. According to Lindsey Vance, that is the most popular question she recieves when she is aksed about being  a triplet.

“We developed different personality traits and such and the birthday song is one thing that is always interesting because either a jumbled mess of everyone’s name or we sing three times and nobody wants to sing the birthday song three times,” Lindsey Vance said.

It is common for multiples to run in the family. For the Vances, this remains true in their family.

“Multiples run in our family because my grandma is a twin and then our distant cousin is a twin so yes multiple do run in our family,” Sara Vance said.

Being a twin or triplet seems fun and for twins they could not imagine being the only child because they have grown up knowing the other twin or triplet.

“It’s also kind of hard to imagine being an only child because you always have someone there for you,” Lindsey Vance said.