DEAR ABBY: A recent column contained a letter from "California Granny," who wrote on behalf of her daughter who had 7-month-old triplets. She asked you to ask your readers to refrain from stopping the parents of multiple birth children to ask personal questions, such as, "Did you take fertility drugs?"
This reminds me of the story about a young woman with six children waiting on the street corner for a bus. An elderly woman approached her and remarked that all the children so greatly resembled her -- but could they all be hers, since they appeared to range only several years in age?
The young mother replied that they were three sets of twins -- born a year apart, and they were all hers.
"My," said the older lady, "Do you and your husband have twins every time?"
"No," said the young woman, "Most of the time we don't have any!" -- A MORRISVILLE, PA., READER