Happy Birthday, David Carr's Daughters

David Carr’s twin daughters Erin and Meagan turned 25 today.

“On this day a quarter of the century ago, my twin girls were born,” he tweeted. “Everything good started with them.”

Indeed,  the effect the twins had on his drug-addled life as a part-time reporter, part-time crackhead in Minneapolis in the late 1980s is well documented.

Here is part of an essay published in the New York Times Magazine, where Carr is the marquee media reporter and columnist, from 2008, just before his memoir “The Night of the Gun” was published:

 On April 15, 1988, Anna had twin girls.