The story ends ……

_Elsa_

The twins head on home, a bit disappointed, but both are very happy that they decided to attend school. Even Philippe is very happy that he stuck it out for the entire semester. He actually is looking forward to the next semester. 

The two of them discuss which class was their favorite. 

“Philippe, I remember you telling me how much you love chemistry,” says Jean-Luc.

“I did love it until the day that I tried to make a volcano erupt and it exploded,” Philippe says. “I was so embarrassed but do you remember Paul coming over to tell me that it was ok. I couldn’t stop crying. I hope that he’s in our next semester class because I really like him. Which was your favorite class Jean-Luc?”

Jean-Luc has trouble choosing a favorite subject. He really enjoyed learning algebra and geometry, although learning those angles was no fun. He thought that the English class was ok. 

“I really liked our English teacher,” says Jean-Luc. “But it wasn’t fun writing as much as we did and critiquing. I’ll leave the writing thing to Elsa. She’s good at it and I don’t see me getting a career in storytelling. But I really loved the genetics class.”

Jean-Luc got so involved in the genetics class that whenever he had free time he would do some googling to learn more about it.

“Do you remember when I found this article on Google about twins marrying twins?” asks Jean-Luc. 

Philippe remembers that article. Jena-Luc remembers reading the article to him.

‘A fascinating scientific fact is revealed by this family's experience: both pairs of parent-twins have the exact same selection of genes - that is, they are literally identical in physical terms. In turn, it works out that their two sets of children are as genetically close to each other as brothers and sisters are, yet they are formally cousins.

The chances are that many people expected to see two "symmetrical" families with identical children here, but this is actually impossible. An individual's physical appearance is the result of combining various genes, and some of them can be passed on an additional generation down the line - from great-grandparents, for example. So absolutely identical children, in genetic terms, by definition cannot exist - even if we're talking about two pairs of identical twins having kids together.’ (Info here)

And now this story comes to an end. Seriously, it could have gone on and on but how many pages would you really want to read? So, let’s end this for now. One day, it might pick up with a part 2 of the twins’ next semester.

This story is dedicated to our @Sofia1992 and @candycrushinit who love Nutcracker, and to any other community members who also love him.

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