SALE TODAY: Learn Piano on iOS bit.ly www.mahalo.com An Akron, Ohio, couple made headlines in February of 2011, after their story was featured by ABC News. Khristi and Charles Cunningham's 17-month-old children, Triniti and Ghabriael, are fraternal twins who look very different: Triniti has dark skin, eyes and "the classic dark features of an African American," but "Gabe" has "ivory-white" skin with blonde hair and blue eyes. The twins' mother, Khristi, is white and their father, Charles, is black. The racial differences between the twins are said to "involve many genes" that "are more complex in determining looks than those for eye color." ABC News quotes Dr. Ronald Bachman, retired head of the genetics department at Kaiser Permanente Hospital in California, as saying that the twins' different appearance is "no big deal" from his viewpoint. Khristi Cunningham says she has gotten a lot of questions from people when they see the babies together. Cunningham says she's even been asked, "Are you sure they are twins?" She tells ABC News that the family does "get a lot of stares." The Cunningham's story was told on the "Mixed and Happy" blog on February 20, 2011. In the post, Khristi Cunningham recalls that when the twins were born nearly three months early, they were hospitalized for some time in the pediatric intensive care unit - and their skin color threw hospital staff for a loop. Cunningham says nurses called Triniti and Gabe "the black and white twins" and even asked if <b>...</b>
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