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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):

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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