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Welcome to Kind World, I'm Yasminamir.

And I'm Andrea Aswahi.

Yasmin, you and I are both older sisters.

Yep, I've got two younger brothers and you've got one, Andrea,

and we always talk about how they drive us crazy even as adults.

They really do but even though they sometimes make us pull our hair out there's nothing we

wouldn't do for them that's just part of being a big sister.

Yes, and that reminds me of the story of Melissa Turner.

She went above and beyond the call of sisterhood

when she decided to help her twin sister, Jen,

fulfill her dream of being a mother.

This kind world story originally aired in 2014.

Stay tuned afterwards for an update.

Being an identical twin, it's something that has certainly defined my life in the sense that you grow up with this person and because that person is always with you they become

sort of the central figure of your life. My name is Jen Turner and I'm from Quincy in Massachusetts. My husband's a little bit

older than me. He's about 10 years older than me. So after we got married, you know, we're thinking, you know, maybe we would

think about starting a family soon and we had a

miscarriage in um August of 2011 and then I was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes

in January of 2012.

About six months after I was diagnosed as a type 1 diabetic,

I developed a eye condition called macular edema.

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