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Quintuplets Leave the Nest

Empty-nest syndrome hit Dan and Pam Pisner harder than most parents who send their children off to college. All five of their children - quintuplets who made headlines when they were born in 1983 - left for college last fall.

ABCNEWS’ Barbara Walters first got to know the Pisner children - Devin, Ian, Shira, Michael and Elliot - when they were 14 months old. She revisited the quintuplets last year, as they prepared to leave their home in Olney, Md. and head off to college.

A Natural, But Difficult, Change

“It’s just so hard to believe that 18 years have gone by so quickly,” said Pam, a government worker who was 29 years old when she gave birth to the quintuplets after fertility treatments. “I am going to be crying my eyes out. They are going to leave this house as quickly as they entered - all at once.”

For Dan, a computer network consultant who works from home, it’s a difficult transition as well. “I thought we got to keep them forever,” he said. But, he has realized, “You don’t get to keep them forever and this is natural.”

Four of the Pisners are at the University of Maryland, about 15 miles away. Elliot left the pack to attend Salisbury University in Salisbury, Md., which is about a 2 1/2 hour drive.

“I just loved their campus,” said Elliot, who plans on focusing on management information systems. “I’ll admit I’ll probably miss them,” he said of his siblings, adding with a laugh, “Maybe.”  

Devin, who was the first-born by 30 seconds, might be described as the troublemaker. Michael, who plays the keyboard and paints is known as the artistic one, while Elliot is labeled the smartest. Shira is the most outgoing sibling, and Ian is known for having the most common sense. The hardest part about being a quintuplet, they say, is finding privacy.

On the flip side, they also thrive in the midst of the constant tumult in the home they call “Camp Pisner.”

“There’s always somebody going through the same thing at the same time,” says Ian.

“And you always have somebody to talk to,” adds Shira. “It’s like a friend because they’re the same age and you are going through the same problems.”

Advice From the Quints

With fertility treatments and multiple births becoming more common, the Pisner kids offered some advice for raising children from multiple births.

“Don’t dress your kids alike,” suggested Michael.

“Take it one step at a time,” said Ian, knowing that his parents did just that. “Don’t get too far ahead.”

Shira, the only girl in the bunch, said, “Make sure you treat them as individuals.”

And Elliot added: “When it comes to school, don’t put them all in the same class.” 

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They’re the odd couple again: George Bush and Hillary Clinton, the most admired man and woman in America.

Though they stand on opposite sides of a political divide, the Republican president and the Democratic senator from New York are sharing the honor for a sixth straight year, according to a USA Today-Gallup poll.

They didn’t win by much. Oprah Winfrey and Clinton’s husband, former president Bill, were right behind.

When people were asked to name the man they most admire, 10 percent picked Bush, his lowest figure in the seven years he has been president. Bill Clinton got 8 percent, while Nobel Prize winner and former Vice President Al Gore had 6 percent and Illinois Sen. Barack Obama, a presidential hopeful, was chosen by 5 percent.

Whoever is president has won the most-admired title every year since 1981.

Sen. Clinton, a presidential hopeful who leads in many polls, was named by 18 percent as the most-admired woman, the 12th time she’s been in the top spot. Talk show host Winfrey came in a close second with 16 percent. First lady Laura Bush and actress Angelina Jolie were each selected by 3 percent.

The poll, released Wednesday, asked participants an open-ended question, allowing them to respond with any names that came to mind. The rest of the votes were spread among a wide variety of government figures, movie stars, friends and relatives. Queen Elizabeth II was in the top 10 for a record 41st time.
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To learn that even though they may think they have nothing to give, when a friend cries with them, they find the strength to appease the pain.

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To learn that even though the word “love” has many different meanings, it loses value when it is overstated.

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