Triple milestone: Test-tube triplets, now 18, heading for 3 colleges; watch video
May 31, 2011
El Paso Times - For Guy McGunegle Jr.'s family, everything comes in threes -- even high-school graduation.
For Guy McGunegle Jr.'s family, everything comes in threes -- even high-school graduation.
"We are so blessed to actually be here and graduating from high school to start our own future," Guy said.
He, his sister Nicole and his brother, Daniel, will turn 18 on June 4 and graduate from two high schools just a few days later.
What's the big deal?
The triplets made headlines June 4, 1993, the day they became the first "test-tube" babies born at what was then Thomason Hospital.
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The in vitro -- popularly known as test-tube -- fertilization was done at Texas Tech University in Lubbock. Margarita McGunegle was implanted with five eggs fertilized by combining the sperm and ova of the two parents.