1. The feeling of receiving your fan club kit in the mail:

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2. Reading this very important debut issue of Mary-Kate and Ashley magazine:

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I would give anything to be at Aaron Carter's party with them...
3. Learning about the twins in this authorized biography that they totally wrote themselves without a ghostwriter or anything:

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4. Playing with these dolls that didn't *really* look like MK&A but it didn't matter because the outfits were A+ and you wanted Ashley's tiny platform Barbie shoes:

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5. Spritzing yourself with these perfect scents and imagining you smelled JUST like the twins:

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6. Shopping their Wal-Mart fashion line, which featured REAL FASHION FOR REAL GIRLS, okay?!

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7. Reading their entire life story in this collector's item:

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8. Browsing the World Wide Web for some very important news:

9. Freaking out when both Mary-Kate and Ashley appeared on Full House at the same time:

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10. And reading up on the most important character on the damn show:

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11. Honestly being low-key scared of this movie:

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12. Knowing MK&A did the whole "parent trap" thing before Lindsay Lohan was even a thing:

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13. Scoring invites to the greatest parties of all time:

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14. Solving extremely important mysteries:

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15. Wishing you were literally this cool to the max:

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16. Traveling all around the damn world and living vicariously through their pre-teen romances:

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17. Watching the best TV show of all time:

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18. And the second best... a little Fox Family original series called So Little Time:

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19. Then reading the book versions of both, because honestly why NOT?

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20. Even watching their animated series because cartoon Mary-Kate and Ashley were cooler than you would ever be:

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21. Listening to Cool Yule for some holiday cheer:

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22. Or some of their other GREATEST HITS instead...

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23. Popping this bad boy into your Game Boy...

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24. Or this one...

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25. Or this very convenient way to keep track of your very busy schedule:

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26. Never wanting to drink milk more in your entire life:

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27. And finally just wishing so hard that you had a twin because it seemed like the greatest thing of all time:
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