[michellemfry]

The grim reality of conjoined twins is that many are lost in the separation surgeries. Even fewer survive to tell us of what their lives have become.

I am guilty of thinking of the tidy little miracle that identical twins affords us. I thought of the split, a moment shared between two resultant embryos that go on to occupy two bodies from one conception.

Honestly, there is so much grief with conjoined twins, let's not go there. I'm having a visceral recoil here. For what it's worth, we explored the possibilities and dared to think it out. I've suddenly grown a thin skin here, harmonygirl, what shall become of me!