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Oh, I think I see an actual joke in there now that I missed before. The phrase "of different sexes" could mean just that the twins are male and female, but it could also mean "of different times having sex", in which case it would mean the father may not be the father of one (or either) of the babies. I missed it, because it's not actually good English: no native-English speaker would say, "the last two sexes you had"; they would say, "the last two times you had sex". (When sex is used as a plural noun, it refers to male and female [e.g., "the battle of the sexes"]; when the noun sex is used to mean "act of copulation", there is no plural form.)Makes sense, thank you for explaining. I guess what confused me was the way the "joke" was handled later on, like there was a punchline:
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