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Triple twins story in Cedar Rapids family spans decades
Donnie Murphy recalls his mother Judith Irene Sewell Murphy giving birth to three sets of twins within 27 months at Cedar Rapids hospitals. The family, highlighted in Look magazine in 1958, raised six children across Marion and Cedar Rapids, facing hospital stays and busy routines while each twin pair grew up separately in various states.
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