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TWINSBURG, Ohio—Brothers Mike and Matt Wickert arrived at Twins Days here last weekend dressed alike.

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"I feel shafted here because everybody looks the same," said Matt Wickert who was attending the festival with his brother in the town named for a set of identical twin landowners, Moses and Aaron Wilcox.

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Brian Wickert , president of Accunet Mortgage LLC, a Wisconsin-based lender, says several of his clients with otherwise pristine credit can't qualify for affordable mortgages because of unpaid medical bills.

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Mike and Matt Wickert "We never got to be that set of twins that fooled teachers and switched around in class," said Barbara Marschik, who identified herself as "twin b," because she was the twin that emerged last from the womb.

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And so on the sprawling grounds of the twins festival, the Wickert twins were lost in a sea of identical twins dressed alike down to their shoelaces, twins so alike that in one case they share a similarly crooked right incisor.

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"Nobody ever asks us if we're twins," Matt Wickert said with a sigh.

At a Convention Full of Them, It's Apparent Not All Twins Are Created Equal Dionne Searcey 2011

"It's devastating for these borrowers," Mr. Wickert says.

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Wickert Family Mike, left, and Matt Wickert are fraternal twins who attended the twins festival but say they didn't get as much attention there as the identical twins, some of whom were so identical even their teeth were crooked in similar fashion.

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Mike Wickert chimed in: "Yeah, we're the redheaded stepchild here, the fraternals."

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