The double Lynch twins

DAVID DUNKLEY, Staff Reporter

BEING a twin himself, Carlton Lynch had always wondered what it would be like to be a father to twins.

Now he knows.

He has fathered two sets of twins, and to boot, his doctor has advised him that if he ever went at it again he would most likely be a father to triplets.

This, however, has not daunted Lynch, and, according to him, had it not been for his wife's ill-health, he would have tested the doctor's theory.

"The doctor told us that if we tried to have another child we would have triplets but that was not why we did not have anymore children," Mr. Lynch told THE STAR. "We decided not to have anymore because of health reasons."

Lynch, who lives in Hampden, Trelawny, with his pair of twins, David and Davian, 16, and Deisha and Deborah, 14, says when he and his wife, Grace, got married in 1982, they had planned to have only three children. He said when they had the boys they tried for the third child but found out it was another set of twins.

He noted that he never dreamt of getting twins. In fact, when his wife got pregnant with David and Davian, neither of them knew she was having twins until about seven months into the pregnancy. "We were not expecting twins," he said. "We were forced to rush out do more shopping."

He said even though they had twins his wife was happy because it was her first pregnancy and she did not have any problems whatsoever.

Lynch who runs a restaurant and waitering school is not afraid to admit that he still has difficulties telling his children apart. He said that whenever he sees one of them and he is not sure who it is he simply calls a name and one of them answers.

He recalled that when the boys were much younger they used to trick him. Explaining, he said if he had something for both of them, one would come and take one and the same one would come again pretending to be the other brother and take the other. "Sometimes I find out and they just run off and laugh," he noted.

The boys are grade 11 students at Muschette Compre-hensive High School while the girls are in Grade 9 at William Knibb. David would like to become an accountant, Davian would like to become a travel consultant, Deisha would like to become a nurse or private investigator and Deborah has dreams of becoming a computer analyst.

They boys say their free time is spent playing football and cricket. Both play football for their school and the Harmony Football Club where they are members.

Of the girls Deisha represents her school at netball while Deborah is a member of the school's badminton team.

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