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...WORK IN THE FIELD OF DEVELOPMENTAL disabilities, and thought I had seen everything. Your story on the conjoined twins Abigail and Brittany Hensel [MEDICINE, March 25] certainly made me look at my life's problems in a different light. The politicians inside the Beltway could learn a lot from these two bright six-year-old girls. I wish the twins well. ROBERT A. GEBHARDT Plattsburgh, New York...
...FORTUNATE FOR THE HENSEL TWINS to be in a loving family and an accepting community. Would that they continue to find such acceptance in the larger world, which is not notably receptive to people's differences. The twins' challenge will be to continue to focus on their abilities and not worry too much about their shortcomings. Since this is the same challenge facing everyone else, they should be able to count themselves as normal individuals indeed. JAMES C. PLUNTZE Olympia, Washington...
PATTY AND MIKE HENSEL'S UNRESERVED love for their abnormal six-year-olds contrasts reassuringly with killer Thomas Hamilton's eruption of hate on the youngsters of Dunblane. The world sorely needs that kind of contrast. JAMES A. DUNLOP Northfield, Minnesota...
...veteran TIME science writer is the mother of three and the managing editor of TIME FOR KIDS, which reaches nearly 800,000 fourth-, fifth- and sixth-graders each week. But she could not resist the opportunity to tell the remarkable story this week of Abigail and Brittany Hensel. "I had read LIFE magazine's cover story about the conjoined twins," she says, "and was moved to tears." Wallis teamed up with reporter Jen Doman, who befriended the Hensels last fall and secured exclusive rights to their story for Life. Says Wallis: "She did a remarkable job of documenting one family...
Patty and Mike Hensel had no idea what they were in for when Patty's first pregnancy came to term six years ago. A spunky, attractive emergency-room nurse, Patty, now 37, had no signs that there was anything unusual about her pregnancy. Ultrasound tests indicated a single, normal fetus. (Doctors later guessed that the girls' heads must have been aligned during the sonogram.) Mike, who works as a landscaper and carpenter, thought he had heard two heartbeats at one point, but that impression was soon dismissed...