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Hempstead, New York – 17 June 2025
1. Wide of graduation practice
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Heather Dvorak, Plainview-Old Bethpage John F. Kennedy High School Principal:
“So I’m here with the Plainview-Old Bethpage John F. Kennedy High School class of 2025. We have 445 graduates and within that group is 15 sets of twins."
3. Group of graduating twins
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Heather Dvorak, Plainview-Old Bethpage John F. Kennedy High School Principal:
“There’s gotta be something in the water.”
5. Track right of twins group
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Joshua Lipetz, Graduating Twin:
“Fifteen total sets of twins, so it’s pretty crazy knowing that there’s so many people in our situation.”
7. Track left of twins group
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Sydney Monka, Graduating Twin:
“We all get very excited when we’re together, and I think, you know, we get together and it’s like, whoa, whoa. We’re all bouncing off each other.”
9. Wide of graduation rehearsal
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Amanda Brake, Graduating Twin:
“So it’s good to have a community of people that I can talk to and relate to about all my twin problems. Sharing clothes is the big one. She steals all my clothes all the time.”
11. Students at graduation rehearsal
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Sydney Jasser, Graduating Twin:
“We all have like struggled with people not being able to tell us apart.”
SOUNDBITE (English) Kayla Jasser, Graduating Twin:
“Especially us.”
SOUNDBITE (English) Sydney Jasser, Graduating Twin
“Especially us because we are the same gender. A lot of people when we talk about them they say we are the ones that look the most alike.”
13. Graduation rehearsal stage
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Rebecca Lipetz, Graduating Twin:
“Even though it’s competitive it’s a very different type of competition when you’re the same gender so I am grateful this is the way it happened.”
15. Graduation rehearsal
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Sydney Monka, Graduating Twin:
“I kind of like to say that we are the same person, different fonts.”
17. Graduating twin Arianna Cammareri
18. SOUNDBITE (English) Arianna Cammareri, Graduating Twin
“I’m really proud of all of us. Like we know that we all did it together. We were always by each other’s sides. Like we know that each twin had each other’s back.”
19. Graduating twin Julianna Cammareri
20. SOUNDBITE (English) Vandita Singh, Graduating Twin:
“We’ve grown up in this town, like since third grade, so it’s just a normal for us.”
21. Students entering graduation rehearsal
22. SOUNDBITE (English) Alison Perrin, Graduating Twin:
“We’re going to different colleges so, I mean, I’m kind of ready. We’ve been together since we were born, and we live in very close proximity, so I’m excited to be on my own.”
SOUNDBITE (English) Samantha Perrin, Graduating Twin:
“Me too.”
23. Graduating twins Emma and Liam Heaney
24. SOUNDBITE (English) Emma Heaney, Graduating Twin:
“This is such a crazy thing, because this is such a big milestone. Like this is the last time we’ll be walking across the same stage together being in the same place at the same time.”
18. Twins Kayla and Emma Leibowitz at graduation rehearsal
STORYLINE:
One high school in the suburbs of New York City will be seeing double on graduation day this weekend as 15 sets of twins prepare to graduate in the Class of 2025.
"There’s gotta be something in the water," joked Plainview-Old Bethpage John F. Kennedy High School Principal Heather Dvorak about the unusually high number of twins among the 445 or so graduates.
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