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Much-loved Chapman-Burgess quintuplets turn 18
By Samantha Townsend
From: The Daily Telegraph
May 20, 2010 12:00AM
FOR 18 years Australia's most famous quintuplets have done everything together - from walking hand-in-hand through the school gates to start kindergarten, to getting their L-plates and now sitting for the HSC.
But for the first time Jack, India, Georgia, Erika and Louis Chapman-Burgess will go their separate ways when they leave their family home in Glen Innes next year.
Jack wants to study mechanical or mechatronics engineering at the University of Newcastle, India is looking at nursing at the University of New England in Armidale while Georgia wants to do hospitality and event planning at Coffs Harbour's Southern Cross University.
Both Erika and Louis are looking at a career in the defence forces.
The thought of having an empty nest has been met with mixed emotions by their parents Ian Burgess and his wife .
"It's been so intense with them all studying for the HSC, it's been rush, rush, rush, that we have put off talking about it," Mrs Chapman-Burgess said. "It's going to be such a big change for us that we won't know what to do with ourselves.
"But no doubt I will still be running around after them. India will be the closest, just an hour away."
Last week when the teenagers - Australia's first indigenous quintuplets - turned 18 Mrs Chapman-Burgess said the day was met with both relief and reflection.
"Relief that they made it to 18 safe and that they seem to have direction and know what they want to do," she said. "And looking back on the past 18 years, remembering every stage."
Since the day they entered the world on May 13, 1992 at Brisbane's Mater Hospital after IVF, she said everything had been done in a big way, and they could not have managed without support from the Glen Innes community.
"The saying it takes a village to raise a child, well in our case, it's taken a whole village to raise five," she said. "That's the beauty of living in a rural community." |
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