In the United States, there is a pair of sisters who are independent of each other but share the same torso. Since birth, both of their heads have grown on the same body, hence the name "two-headed man". Either way, the "two-headed sisters" are truly close.
The sisters' names are Abby Hensel and Brittany Hensel, and as the years go by, they both reach the age of talking about marriage.
Just in 2021, Abby Hensell married a war veteran. This surprised many netizens, as conjoined people who are closely connected, after one of them gets married, how will these three people get along in the future?
Siamese babies miraculously survive
The story of the two sisters began on March 7, 1990, when a pair of conjoined babies were born in the delivery room, and all the doctors and nurses panicked!
Experienced doctors quickly reacted and recognized that this was a pair of conjoined babies, and in the recorded human record, the probability of a conjoined baby is only 1 in 200,000, and the probability of survival of severely conjoined babies is almost zero. It is already a miracle that these two sisters were born in this world.
Subsequently, the doctor issued a critical illness notice for the couple, claiming that the newborn sisters would not live more than 24 hours. In fact, most people at the time thought that even if the two of them survived, their future life would be very difficult and they would not grow up independently like normal people.
The parents of the children did not agree with this idea, they firmly believed that the two children were a gift from God, and said that they would take good care of the two children no matter what.
At the insistence of the parents, the medical staff took good care of the conjoined babies. However, the expected failure did not materialize, and the two sisters performed a medical miracle and survived as conjoined babies.
The medical staff was still not at ease, and they did a detailed examination of the two sisters, only to find that their common torso contained two hearts, two stomachs, two livers and three kidneys.
In other words, most of the critical organs are independent, and it is because of this that they are able to overcome each other's influence and ultimately survive.
The doctors were surprised that the conjoined babies had survived in such a subtle way, saying that after the examination, the two sisters were healthy.
Glad to learn that their daughters had survived, the parents named them Abby Hensel and Brittany Hensel, respectively. Since then, the conjoined sisters have started their extraordinary lives.
Twin sister flowers
The principles behind the control of two heads over the same body are complex and involve multiple disciplines under the broad category of biology. To put it simply, Abby is able to control the left side of her body, and has no feelings for her right hand or right leg. Brittany, on the other hand, only has feelings for the right body and cannot control the left body.
Life requires intimate cooperation between two people, such as walking, eating, drinking water and other simple actions, all of which need to be completed by two people together.
Such a physiological condition has brought a lot of troubles to the lives of the two, there is no space between the two, and all kinds of small things such as eating, sleeping, and going to the toilet must be highly synchronized, otherwise there will be contradictions and quarrels.
For example, when one of them wants to sleep and the other wants to watch TV, there will be a difference of opinion between the two people. Life is equal, and no matter who accommodates the other, it is not something that should be taken for granted.
The other sisters can go to their own rooms when they quarrel, and they can only stay together all the time, and they have no chance to be alone anyway.
Therefore, it is not only necessary to cultivate a tacit understanding of cooperation physically, but also to constantly run in and adapt to each other's existence in terms of personality in order to live together harmoniously.
It is to be expected that the small contradictions between the two have never disappeared. Especially at a lively and active age, they always quarrel with each other over some inconspicuous trivial matters.
For example, when Abby is full and wants to go out to play, but her sister has not started to eat, Abby has to cooperate with her to finish the meal. For example, when my sister wants to go to the toilet, my sister is sleeping soundly, and she must be woken up to go to the toilet together.
They would argue over the taste of lunch, and they would have to prepare two different meals each time they ate. During the meal, the two sisters will also have an argument over the priority of the meal. At the end of the day, one person must compromise and help the other with one hand that they can control to give priority to the meal.
Both sisters have their own independent thoughts, and their aesthetic styles are also different. They also disagree on what to wear when they go out.
Neither of them was willing to accommodate each other on this issue, and the helpless parents could only modify the style of the clothes, making the left and right sides of a dress into different styles and connecting them together.
This kind of quarrel also made the parents very entangled, and a doctor once suggested that their organs were still independent, and they could be separated by amputation. This also means that both sisters will be highly disabled after separation, and each will only be able to have one hand and one leg.
This is unacceptable to both of them, and they are more willing to accept each other's existence than highly disabled. In the end, they did not accept the proposal of amputation and chose to live together despite the difficulties.
With the help of their parents, Brittany and Abby gradually mastered the rhythm of life in a "fit together". The personalities of the two sisters are tough and gentle, and they complement each other to do things surprisingly well.
Such an interesting contrast effect also made them gain a lot of friends, and their friends liked the sisters with different personalities and living in the same body. During that time, being able to play with the sisters was considered a cool thing by friends.
Under the praise of their friends, the hearts of the two sisters became more and more sunny, and they did not leave psychological pressure because of the previous quarrels. The cooperation between the two is more tacit, especially when they are in school, their two heads work together, and it is easy to complete the tasks left by the teacher.
The teacher also felt helpless about this, and in order to give them better learning results, they could only leave two assignments, and each of them completed their own independently.
In order to take advantage of their conjoined strengths, their parents took them to learn to swim, ride a bicycle, and even play volleyball. With the tacit cooperation of the two, they can do better than others in these sports.
With the blessing of two brains, their bodies can quickly change a variety of different tactics, which makes them masters of ball games, and their body coordination is no less than that of any healthy adult.
When taking the driver's license test, one of the two people controls the direction, and the other is responsible for stepping on the brake and accelerator, and they easily get the driver's license. But after all, they are two people, and the local authorities require them to take another driver's license, one for the elder sister, and one for the younger sister for safety.
When answering questions, the two sisters will also receive "special attention", and the two heads cannot communicate with each other, so they can only answer their own exam questions.
With the careful help of their parents, the two sisters lived together tacitly and became a pair of "two-headed sisters".
Get married and have children
The tacit understanding between the two sisters cannot change the fact that they are two people with their own independent personalities after all. They live in the same body, but they have their own careers and dreams.
As adults, they have two different jobs, and the older sister and sister are financially independent of each other. There is a detailed description of how they are doing two different careers in the same body in "Spend the Rest of Your Life Together".
The American documentary "Together for the Rest of Our Lives" was filmed with two sisters as the main characters. This documentary tells the story of the sweet daily life of two sisters and how the two sisters have overcome life's difficulties to adapt to each other.
In the second half of the documentary, Abby revealed that she wanted to get married and have children like normal people, really become a mother, and raise a child of her own.
The marriage problem of sisters is worrying, after all, the marriage of conjoined sisters involves too much, whether it is the physical problems caused by conjoined sisters, or the ethical problems of three people living together, they need to be properly resolved. For example, the vital organs of the two are independent, but the lower body is still one.
Relatives and friends around them are worried about them, and the two sisters only have one lower body, so how can they get married and have children? Whether it is biological or ethical, the mother of the child is not easy to define.
More importantly, would there be such a man willing to accept such a pair of sisters? If you marry any of these sisters, your married life will inevitably be full of embarrassment. Especially when the husband and wife are intimate, the other person is watching from the side, and there is no chance of living the world of two people at all.
Even in open Western countries, it is rare for a man to live such a life of three people in marriage. The question worth pondering is that if the two sisters are married, the two sisters will definitely not be separated, and the four of them will not have to live together?
If it is barely acceptable for a man to live with two sisters, then it is inconceivable that two men are forced to live together.
These are the marriage problems of the conjoined sisters, the most important of which is that there will be such a man who is willing to accept this awkward lifestyle for the sake of love and start an unusual married life with them.
Under the attention of many netizens, Abby always believes in love, and she believes that there will be such a person who can accept two sisters, three or four people to live happily together.
In the end, the two sisters proved that they could overcome this difficulty. Drawn to the sunny and cheerful personalities of the two sisters, Josh, a war veteran, quickly develops a love affair with Abby, as well as a harmonious relationship with her sister Brittany.
Until 2021, they got married, and according to the photos they posted on social media, Josh is living with her 8-year-old daughter and two sisters, both with smiles on their faces and looking happy.
epilogue
Their bodies are connected, and this does not affect the excitement of their lives. The conjoined lives of Abby Hensel and Brittany Hensel may have caused them a lot of inconvenience, but at the same time, if we think about it from another angle, this kind of life with someone at all times is also enviable.
The same is true of each of our lives, everything is two-sided, as long as we always maintain an optimistic and positive attitude, things will always develop in a better direction.