The Quintuplets

When Elzire Dionne gave birth to five identical babies, she caught the attention of reporters and doctors hundreds of miles away, the Chicago World’s Fair – and the Ontario government. Before the quintuplets were ten months old, they passed a new law: the Dionne Quintuplet Guardianship Act. “These children are our own royal family.”

Sarah Miller’s book is The Miracle and Tragedy of the Dionne Quintuplets (rhcbooks.com/books/547459/the-miracle-and-trag…).

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