Science & Technology, 1st prize
Thomas Stephan
Geo
Geo
01 January, 1987
January - June. The three surviving girls of a set of quintuplets born three months prematurely. Weighing less than a kilo at birth, the two male infants died. The girls are shown here at 184 days.
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