Psychopomp Magazine Spring 2015 | Page 30

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thing when they are finally rewarded with two. They find separate jobs and separate apartments, sharing custody of their single body.

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I mean, yes, it was regrettable what happened to their lives after that show, but we tried our hardest to respect their wishes. It was their idea to have the show on two different days with two different titles. It wasn’t our fault that we had the same footage for both the girls. We weren’t trying to imply that they were the same person, but they did all the same things. They weren’t talking to each other at the time; it was a series of interactions with other people and mishaps trying to do things with one hand or one foot. They kept eating foods that required both a fork and a knife. We weren’t trying to ridicule them. Who orders a steak when they only have one hand at their disposal? It made the trials difficult too; neither one of them could ever meet with their lawyer in private, and eventually all the lawyers just quit. I wouldn’t say it’s our fault, no. I think it’s just one of the challenges people want to know about. It did make good TV, though, when neither of the girls could agree on what to wear, and they just started going shirtless all over the place, and you could really see their body, breasts so far apart, skin melded together. It didn’t look natural, but that was the point.

They continue their fight until they receive a pile of letters from men who only love two-headed women and they are the only ones that can fulfill their desires. They start working part time at a strip club, with their own special room in the back. There is a Cerberus painted on the door, even though the dog has three heads instead of two. A warning above: What you are about to see is very sensual. Everyone is careful never to use the word “freak.”

Nurse:

They showed up at the hospital with blood on their hands. We couldn’t separate them, not that they could ever be separated, but when we were finally able to pull their fingers apart—a death grip, that’s what it’s called—we found the fetus inside. They