![]() Rose and Ruby are attached at the head, but their struggles and triumphs remind us that connection is central to us all. Rose has a passion for writing, and The Girls is her version of life as a conjoined twin. ![]() Now almost thirty, Rose and Ruby are on the verge of becoming the oldest living craniopagus twins in history. The sisters attempt to lead a normal life, but can't help being extraordinary. Born during a tornado to a shocked teenaged mother in the hospital at Leaford, Ontario, they are raised by the nurse who helped usher them into the world. Rose and Ruby are twenty-nine-year-old conjoined twins. Abandoned by their frightened teenage mother, they are adopted by the eccentric nurse who attended their birth, and her husband, a gentle immigrant butcher. In Lori Lansens’ astonishing second novel, readers come to know and love two of the most remarkable characters in Canadian fiction. And, if such things were to be, I'd live a thousand times as me, to be loved so exponentially' The girls, Rose and Ruby Darlen, were both joined at the head (craniopagus twins) in a rural farming community in 1974. Or been kissed like that.So many things I've never done, but oh, how I've been loved. I have never stood in the grass at night and raised my arms to a beguiling moon. 'I have never looked into my sister's eyes. ![]() ![]() ![]()
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