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Nine decades of sisterly love as identical twins turn 90

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Lois Lasher and Lori Hoots slept side-by-side in the same crib as babies. Nine decades later, the identical twin sisters share a queen bed.

The sisters have a four-bedroom house in McClusky, North Dakota, US, but said they preferred sleepovers.

“It’s nice to always have company,” said Hoots.

Lasher and Hoots, who celebrated their 90th birthday last week, have been inseparable most of their lives. Lasher is five minutes older, and often reminds Hoots, and others, of her elder status.

The twins were born in their family’s farmhouse in rural Sheridan

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