Having been through a lot and going against what scientists predicted, the oldest conjoin twins celebrated their 63rd Birthday in Ohio, USA.
Ronnie and Donnie are joined
at the waist and face each other. They have four arms and four legs and
separate hearts and stomachs but share a lower digestive tract, a groin, a
rectum and penis, over which Donnie has control.
The twins were born healthy in
October 1951 but stayed in the hospital for two years as doctors tried to
figure out how to separate them. When experts said they could not guarantee
both babies would survive an operation to part them, the parents said they
would stay as they were. The boys did not go to school as teachers asked them
to leave because they were too distracting to the other students. From the age
of four to 39, they supported their family by performing in carnival sideshows
in the U.S. and circuses throughout Central and South America.
The twins live with their
younger brother Jim
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