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Article: YOUR MAP TO THE STATE FAIR; A DAILY SPECIAL PULLOUT; Sunday, August 31, 2003.(SPECIAL)
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- August 31, 2003
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Byline: Paul Levy; Staff Writer
A FAIRLY GOOD STORY
By the Seifert quadruplets
As we all four sit together and reminisce (it's hard to get us all together now), we have fond memories of the Minnesota State Fair.
Our annual visits to the fair began in 1951 at age 1 1/2 (we being the Seifert quadruplets from Sleepy Eye, Minn.). The first three years we spent all 10 days there on display in the Administration Building. Fairgoers paid 25 cents each to walk through and watch us play, sleep and eat. Inside were our toys, swing set, beds and high chairs. At the time we were born, there were only 11 sets of quadruplets in the United States, with us being the only ...