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[Opinions] Names of siamese twins
I hope you don't find this macabre. I'm interested in people who are "different" (I love the story about Joseph Merrick - the Elephant Man) and I recently read a fictional story about siamese twin girls (The Girls by Lori Lansens. Very good!). On a site about "freaks" as these special persons used to be known, I found these names of siamese twins (the surname is not always known, or the didn't have one):Daisy and Violet Hilton
Giacomo and Giovanni Batista Tocci
Rosa and Josefa Blazek
Millie and Christine McCoy
Masha and Dasha Krivoshlyopova
Lori and Reba Schappell (Reba, who was originally Dori, has changed her name again - to George!)
Simplicio and Lucio Godina
Margaret and Mary Gibb
Ronnie and Donnie Galyon
Yvonne and Yvette McCarther
Radica and Doodica
Ritta and Christina
Helen and Judith
Mary and Eliza Chulkhurst
Chang and Eng Bunker (boys)
Ganga and Jamuna Mondal (girls)
Liou Seng-Sen and Liou Tang-Sen (boys)
Nadir and Juraci Climerio (girls)
Maria and Arrita
Ganga Lai and Gaura Bai (girls)
Guadalupe and Josefina Hinojosa
Maria and Rosalina
Lotti (or Lette) and Rosemarie (or Gitta) Knaak
Emilie and Elisabeth (known collectively as "Emilisa") Stoll
Abigail and Brittany Hensel
Anastasia and Tatiana Dogaru
Ladan and Laleh Bijani
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I love Anastasia and Tatiana together! And while I don't care for Helen and Judith much at all, together they work. Also, Rosalina is so pretty!
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Anastasia and Tatiana are my favourite pair. I feel sorry for those kids whose parents made their names rhyme., for any twins
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phreeque.com? Marvellous site - really well put together, and an awesome and humbling read.
Name-wise, I like Millie & Christine, Daisy and Violet, Lotti and Gitta and Ladan and Laleh.
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Yep, that's the siteI actually find some of the persons considered "freaks" beautiful.

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Emilisa is quite interesting.
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The PC term is "conjoined"just FYI :) I think the term "Siamese Twins" is now considered to be racist or derogatory, though the history behind the term is accurate (for the famous Thai ["Siamese" in the old days] twins Chang and Eng)I also like reading about "different people" like that. The Elephant Man is one of my favourite movies, I bawl my eyes out every time. I'll have to check out this book! Have you seen the 1932 movie "Freaks"? I want to see it quite badly but I cannot find it anywhere. anyways, I like these twosomes:Daisy and Violet
Millie and Christine
Masha and Dasha
Ritta and Christina
Mary and Eliza
Lotti (or Lette) and Rosemarie (or Gitta)
Emilie and Elisabeth (known collectively as "Emilisa") - that is so sad, known collectively. Emilisa is a beautiful name though.
Anastasia and Tatiana
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OK, I'll remember the PC term. Thanks! :)
I haven't seen Freaks, but it's a movie I would really like to see.
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Amazon has Freaks on dvd, and there are several clips on youtube. I've seen it. V sad, but amazing-looking film.
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ah thanks!I was looking in all the quirky little hole-in-the-wall local movie stores thinking that would be my best bet - but of course Amazon has it! Silly me.
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