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Ena Pugh and Lily Millward, The World's Oldest Twins, Celebrate 102nd Birthday Together

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HuffPost Weird News   First Posted: 01/ 5/2012 9:02 am Updated: 02/ 8/2012 9:54 am

Few people know what it's like to turn 102, but Ena Pugh does.

And, luckily for her, there's at least one person who understands how it feels: her twin sister Lily Millward.

Pugh and Millward, who live both near the town of Brecon, Wales, celebrated the big 1-0-2 on January 4 the same way they celebrated the first one more than a century ago -- side by side.

In fact, they haven't missed a birthday apart from each other since the sisters were 79 and both were ill, according to The Sun

But while the 102nd birthday was one worth celebrating, it wasn't under the best of circumstances. Ena had to visit Lily in the hospital where she is recovering from a broken hip.

According to Dianne Powell, Lily's 65-year-old daughter, her mom slipped and fell just before Christmas.

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"But she's in good spirits and enjoying the attention of being one of the world's oldest twins," Powell told the Daily Mail. "Ena pops in to see her in the hospital when she can - they are very close. And despite the terrible weather she made a special effort to get together on their birthday."

However, the sisters managed to share some cake as well as some laughs, thanks to a birthday present given to them by their five kids, 15 grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren: Copies of the latest edition of Guinness World Records, where their status as "Oldest Twins" is made official.

Lily says the secret to the long life she's had with sister Ena is "laughter and having a joke with each other," but Dr. Alan Shuldiner, director of endocrinology, diabetes and nutrition at University of Maryland, suspects the real reason is more likely genes than jokes.

“At higher and higher ages, genetics play a larger and larger role,” Shuldiner told ABCNews.go.com. “Many centenarians eat unhealthy diets, smoke, never exercised. I suspect genetics is a large reason why they have lived 204 years between them.”

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HUFFPOST SUPER USER
Marturia
Are we there yet?
06:11 PM on 01/08/2012
Congratulations! You go, girls!
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Justdontgetit
Don't screw with old people, they will mess you up
04:14 PM on 01/08/2012
Good on you ladies! Happy Birthday and I hope we get to see those sweet smile for several more years!
12:23 AM on 01/08/2012
May the Lord continue to watch over you.
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11:00 PM on 01/07/2012
Congratulation.Powys twins upstage French record holders Raymonde and Lucienne Wattelade as the oldest twins ?

http://goo.gl/K9sBp
12:55 AM on 01/07/2012
Happy Birthday YOUNG ladies....you both look great
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Susan Shaffer
tell me from the beginning
07:30 PM on 01/06/2012
i know of twin sisters who were born on separate days. one was born just before midnight and the other after midnight.
05:01 PM on 01/06/2012
Happy Birthday to these two BUT the OLDEST twins live right here in Florida, United States. Charlotte Eisgrou and Ann Primack born December 24, 1909. Someone needs to get them into the Guiness as the oldest twins in the world!
01:34 PM on 01/06/2012
well then happy birthday to them both
01:04 PM on 01/06/2012
you ladies look great and not your ages at all
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siegfried728711
12:48 PM on 01/06/2012
twins ,same day b-day , no kidding ! if they had different b-days, then there would be another 8th wonder of the world!!!!
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Susan Shaffer
tell me from the beginning
07:30 PM on 01/06/2012
see my comment above
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siegfried728711
10:37 AM on 01/07/2012
Susan, pls re-post your comment.
12:29 PM on 01/06/2012
Guess they took the," and many more", in the happy birthday song, seriously. but perhaps they never heard it in the first place. anyway.. Happy Birthday Ladies,, and perhaps a few more..
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Pamela Ivins Dobuler
11:46 AM on 01/06/2012
lookin very good for 102 !
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cottere5
wienie dog daddy
02:33 AM on 01/06/2012
Happy Birthday !, girls. Maybe next year you can go dancing. The boys will be standing in line.
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siegfried728711
12:48 PM on 01/06/2012
are they cougars :)
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rewith85man
10:14 PM on 01/05/2012
So, they must had been born in 1900. If not, then congratulations to them for living long than the Golden Girls did.
09:59 AM on 01/06/2012
1910.
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09:52 PM on 01/05/2012
Why on earth did the HP put something so sweet and touching under WEIRD NEWS?
11:49 PM on 01/05/2012
I was wondering why it was under Weird News too. This is not weird to me
09:59 AM on 01/06/2012
Ditto.