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Romeo and Juliet born just hours apart at same hospital

This Romeo and Juliet had a date with destiny.

The two star-crossed babies found each other quickly after being born just hours and a few feet apart to different women at Coastal Carolina Hospital in Hardeeville, South Carolina.

“It was just a coincidence. They were both actually scheduled to be induced on March 26, but they both came early which is so neat,” the hospital’s newborn photographer Cassie Clayshulte told CBS News.

“It just shows even more that it’s fate — they just happened to be in the room next to each other,” she said.

Romeo was born at 2:06 p.m. Sunday to Morgan and Edwin Hernandez.

Christiana and Allan Shifflett welcomed Juliet 18 hours and 8 minutes later in an adjoining room after a C-section.

“Both parents had picked these names out early on in their pregnancies and neither couple knew each other until they met today!” Clayshulte wrote on Facebook. “Both babies have full heads of hair and already make the cutest couple!”

The shutterbug told the happy parents that they could hire her now for the wedding.

“We’ve already made jokes they need an arranged marriage,” Clayshulte told CBS.

Ironically, neither baby was named directly after the Shakespearean tragedy, Caters News reported.

Rather, Romeo’s name was inspired by a singer his parents are fans of – and Juliet was named after Jules in TV show “Psych.”