Dipole Moment of Two Electrons

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Why is the dipole moment of two electrons equal to zero?

[tex] <br /> \vec{d} = \sum{q_{i}\vec{r_{i}}}<br /> [/tex]

The distance between them is nonzero and they both have charges. It is not obvious to me why this sums to zero.
 
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