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...PLAY PERIOD IN Connie Stahlke's kindergarten room. Abigail and Brittany Hensel are at the Play-Doh table, when a visitor asks, How much is 10 plus 10? Britty starts counting on her fingers. Abby helpfully lays down her hand on the table. They count fingers and toes with all the accuracy their six-year-old minds can muster. "Nineteen," they conclude. Then the clearly ancient guest asks, "Guess how old I am." Britty can't resist the chance to tease: "900,000!" she shrieks. The sisters dissolve into giggles. They reach up and slap a celebratory high five...
...Hensel twins love to share a joke. A puckish sense of humor is one of their best tools for contending with all the other sharing they must do day in and day out--a sharing of a more profound and intimate nature than most of us can imagine. The two hands that meet in a high five, offer fingers for counting and clasp their adored parents in an embrace belong to a single body. Abby controls the right limbs, Britty the left. Although they have separate necks and heads, separate hearts, stomachs and spinal cords, they share a bloodstream...
...years the Hensel twins have lived a quiet existence in a tiny Midwestern town where everyone knows them. (The family does not want the town to be identified.) They go shopping with their parents and younger brother and sister, attend school and even play in Little League T-ball games. But until recently when their parents opened their doors and hearts to a Life magazine reporter and photographer, the twins have been shielded from media attention. Their touching story, which appears on the cover of Life's April issue, has made them instant celebrities...
...like the proposal better the way it was," Nayantara D. Hensel '97 said. "I think that people are basically now going to have to make the choice to do recruiting and not do magna and summa or not do recruiting and write a thesis and have a chance at getting magna or summa...
...times, students can get really involved in writing a long thesis or doing research for a professor that has nothing to do with the classes they have taken," concentrator Nayantara D. Hensel '97 said...