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TWINSBURG, Ohio, Aug. 6 (UPI) -- The city of Twinsburg, Ohio, saw double as twins from around the world converged for the annual Twins Days Festival.

Twins such as Jeanette Meadows and her sister Geneva Petitt attended the event Saturday, giving them a chance to mingle with others who were born into the same situation, the Cleveland Plain Dealer reported.

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"It's just the fellowship with other twins," said Meadows. "To be around other people who understand what it means to be a twin."

Festival organizers expected nearly 3,000 sets of twins -- and more than 40,000 people overall -- to attend the 31st incarnation of the event.

This year's festival was organized around a movie theme -- which led to twin zombies walking the grounds -- but some attendees for there more on business than for fun.

Dr. Kevin Cooper, chairman of dermatology at University Hospitals and Case Western Reserve University, was there for the seventh year in a row to study the onset of diseases as they pertain to twins.

"Every time we come, we learn something," Cooper told the newspaper. "It's quite a resource."

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