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Growing Up A Triplet

"I'm a triplet"......I'll wait for the oohs and ahhs.

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Growing Up A Triplet
Miranda Nosia

Let's play Two Truths and a Lie:

1. I love cats

2. I'm a triplet

3. I hate Grey's Anatomy

Really?

I actually hate cats, thank you.

"I'm a triplet"......I'll wait for the oohs and ahhs.

You probably haven't met a triplet before or think it's the coolest thing ever because those are the top two responses I get. But to clear things up:

I do think its cool, yes I know other triplets, no we are not identical, and even if only two of us are there that does not make us twins, were still triplets.

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Growing up a triplet you have to endure a lot of matching, and a lot of sharing. You wear ridiculous outfits that are exactly the same, except for the colors. You share a room. Have matching bedding. There is triple the amount of stuffed animals and toys.


Marissa, myself, and Madison were born in that order on September 4, 1996 at Bryn Mawr Hospital. We were the first set of all girl triplets born there. Arriving two months early, and spending a month in the NICU, we luckly got to go home with very minor health issues. Now sophomores in college we are thirty, flirty and thriving! Just kidding, we are twenty, broke, and barely surviving but now I'm getting away from the point.


Growing up a triplet you will forever be you guys, the triplets, you all, girls, etc. We are surprisingly separate people with our own names.

Growing up a triplet you will forever be called your siblings name at some point in time. My parents thought it would be a great idea to have us share the letter M for first names as well. So now when our mom is yelling I don't get to be just Miranda, I'm also Madison and Marissa or our dog Ginger because it's too confusing when she is screaming like the kracken coming out of the deepths of the ocean.


Growing up a triplet, it is hard for people to visualize 2/3 of you or just one of you by yourself. People think when I'm with just one sister that makes us twins, or when I'm alone they want to know where my twins are.

One of my favorite questions asked is "are you fraternal or identical" as they meet all three of us....at the same time....face to face. So yes obviously identical.

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But ya gotta think about our MVP parents as well. As soon as we say we're triplets most peoples reactions are in awe of my parents and how they handle three 20 year old girls, let alone our three older siblings they dealt with before us.

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The birth order is a highly anticipated question we're usually asked. I'm not sure if the two minute difference in between each of us really is that life or death to whose the "baby" of the family or the "oldest", but it is always asked.

People ask whether we were natural conception or Bill Nye the Science Guy laboratory experiment......its none yo beeswax! Anyones conception/pregnancy is a private and personal conversation that should be shared to their discretion

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"Are you guys best friends?" Honestly? No, not all the time. My sisters and I definitely know how to fight. I swear we deserve an oscar for some of our performances. I also think we'd make a nice reality television show. We don't see eye to eye on everything, we steal each others clothes, we fight about whose driving the car. But at the end of the day, I have two life long partners in crime to battle these crazy twenties with, let alone what we'll be like eighty old and wrinkled with each other.

Growing up a triplet people tell you "you're really lucky!"

I'd have to say I agree.


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