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Connecticut Quadruplets Going to College Together

Aired June 27, 2002 - 10:45   ET

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LEON HARRIS, CNN ANCHOR: When autumn approaches, the leaves will turn color, and the Zipadelli household will turn silent. Four siblings who entered the world all together will remain united for the next milestone of their adult lives. They're going to go off to college. Connecticut's first set of quadruplets graduated last week from high school and are now bound for college. But it seems that they will share more than just a campus. The three bothers and sister will also live in same dormitory, they say, separated by only by different roommates and maybe different floors.

We'll find out about that as we check with them now, because we're going to get that story from them directly in quadraphonic stereo. There you go. There's the picture. We're joined this morning by the Zipadelli siblings of Hartford, Connecticut. James, Daniel, Mark and Kristin all join us from Hartford this morning.

Hey, gang. How's it going?

(CROSSTALK)

Let's do the roll call here. I want to see which one's which here. OK, James raise your hand.

There you, there's James.

OK, which one is Daniel?

Thanks, Daniel.

Mark.

And I guess a that means Kristen has got to be the one on the lower left.

Hey, guys.

Well, first of all, congratulations on graduating from high school.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Thank you.

HARRIS: How come you're not sick and tired of each by now?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: No, not at all. HARRIS: Really, so going to college together and maybe staying in the same dorm all makes sense?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Oh, yes.

HARRIS: Did you come to conclusion together, or did it just happen? Did it evolve or what?

KRISTIN ZIPADELLI, GRADUATE: It just seemed to make sense. We've been together since we were in grade school, and we couldn't break the bond that we've had for so many years, so just going to college just really made sense. We wanted to do it.

HARRIS: OK. So now you guys have decided you are going to have separate roommates, though?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes.

HARRIS: That to me seems to be a pretty smart idea. Now who was it who came up with that idea?

MARK ZIPADELLI, GRADUATE: I think we all came up with it, since college is time for forming new ideas and being a little bit independent, we figure we maybe should stay in the same dorm house so we can contact each other at regular times, but we would have different roommates.

HARRIS: So you like each other, but just not that much, huh?

(LAUGHTER)

HARRIS: Actually, we're showing some pictures right now, your baby pictures. Listen, I understand you guys been getting quite a bit of press because of this. How does that feel?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It's good. It's good. It's a new experience, and we welcome it, and we're -- we're all right with it. We like it.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It's a different feeling.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It's a different feeling.

HARRIS: Tell me this, how is your mom and dad going to pay for all four of you guys to go to college? I would assume that if it was my mom, I know what she would do. She would make two of us stay home and work so the other two could go?

K. ZIPADELLI: It's been a really big burden that the whole family has had to deal with for many years now, especially since we have to do this almost entirely on our own.

HARRIS: Kristen, I'm sorry, can you stay right there. We've got to go away because we've got some breaking news.

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