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Now Playing in the Arnold Family: A Double Feature

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--After being separated for most of their lives, fraternal twins Michael and Matthew Arnold, 4, are part of the same family again. For a year, Michael has lived in Rochester, Minn., with his adoptive parents, Kevin and Ann Arnold, and Susan, a 6-year-old adopted Korean sister. Matthew probably lived in a South Korean orphanage, officials said. When the boys were reunited at Minneapolis-St.Paul International Airport, they hugged, cried and then stood side by side, holding hands. “I don’t think I’ll have any regrets,” said Ann Arnold as she watched the boys. The Arnolds didn’t know about Matthew until July, when a social worker from the Children’s Home Society of Minnesota told them that Michael might have a twin. “Of course, I got excited. I kept saying, ‘We want him,’ ” Ann Arnold said. The Arnolds have learned that the twins were split up soon after birth Jan. 15, 1983, in South Korea when their parents separated and each took one child. Both parents had difficulty keeping the boys, and they were given up for adoption separately.

--Patrons of an East Hartford, Conn., doughnut shop served up a surprise for waitress Isabelle Dillon, who has worked at the shop for 25 years. The no-tipping policy was loosened to allow 80 customers to give $1,000 so Dillon, 70, can visit a sister she hasn’t seen in 60 years. A relative recently learned that Dillon’s 86-year-old sister, Grace Gates, was living in Canada. “She (Dillon) gives an awful lot to her customers. If everyone had known about it (the collection), we would have had a lot more money,” Joseph Derohanian, the shop’s owner, said. Dillon said she may use the money to take Gates to Idaho, where another sister, Ina Low, 77, is hospitalized. The three are the survivors of 10 siblings.

--Frank Sinatra was hospitalized for a routine checkup, and excess scar tissue from earlier intestinal surgery was removed, the entertainer’s spokesman said. Sinatra, 71, was expected to be released “in a day or two” from Eisenhower Medical Center at Rancho Mirage, and his April appearance at the Golden Nugget in Las Vegas is still on as scheduled, spokesman Lee Solters said. He said Sinatra was feeling fine. The performer underwent surgery for diverticulitis last November and again in January.

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--Princess Caroline of Monaco and her husband, businessman Stefano Casiraghi, expect their third child at the end of the summer, the principality’s press office announced. The couple are the parents of a 2-year-old boy and a 7-month-old girl.

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