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神奇的双胞胎

There’s a set of twins in the UK who are turning heads because one is black and the other is white.

Born in 1997 to a white father and a half-Jamaican mother, the sisters have grown accustomed to getting mistaken for being just friends.

“No one ever believes we are twins because I am white and Maria is black,” Lucy explained. “Even when we dress alike, we still don’t even look like sisters, let alone twins.”

After giving birth naturally, the twins’ mother, Donna Douglas, did a double-take as she looked at her daughters for the very first time.

And when it comes to the girls’personalities, they are nearly as different as their looks.

Lucy, who has red hair and a very fair complexion, studies art and design at Gloucester College. Maria, who has brown hair with a caramel complexion, studies law and psychology at Cheltenham College. They have three siblings, who all have mixed skin colour.

Lucy says one of the great things about having a twin who looks completely different is that people don’t mistake them for one another.

“We were in the same class at infant school, but no one ever had a problem telling us apart,” she explained. “Maria and I couldn’t look more different if we tried. We don’t even look like we have the same parents, let alone having been born at the same time.”