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Social History fo Conjoined Twins When Yvonne and Yvette McCarther were born on May 14, 1949, their mother faced a tremendous dilemma. The babies were joined at the head, and were among the rarest of conjoined twins. The girls had separate brains, but shared a circulatory system so they could not be separated. Initially, Mrs. McCarther resisted offers by circus owners to put the girls on display. However, faced with numerous hospital bills, she and her daughters travelled with the circus for two years.

{ with no documentation, with almost no hope for fair hearing, with the pain of a thousand unseen blows still slamming my head to the concrete of this strange time, I insist, I will insist until the day I die, that conjunction can be so almost complete as to be virtually indistinguishable, that it is rare but consistent in our history as organisms, that something like that is how bilateral symmetry first developed, that this is the basis for the ignorant persecution of 'witches' with third and fourth breasts, that the double crown, and rudimentary third nipple i myself wear is a mark not of evil, but of the wondrous beauty of biological truth, deep truth. that these bastards knew the possibility of duality there and sought us out. for these reasons the duplicity possible with not two artificially induced personalities but two distinct and real personalities two beings in one body and the miracle of almostness that is neither, not one not two, but something outside that graph entirely. it is so strange, so close to nonsense and fantasy, but I have never found a a more accurate explanation for so much that is already provably strange, and so frighteningly real. I hate the lack of advocacy that makes me have to claim this, alone. what they did to us is unspeakably dark}