A Most Intimate Bond

[elleng]

When doctors realized that they could not separate Carmen and Lupita Andrade, conjoined twins, their mother, Norma, was devastated. She had traveled to the United States from their home in Veracruz, Mexico, specifically to save her daughters, then 2, from a lifetime of disability and ridicule.

Years later, when Lupita and Carmen were old enough to understand that they had been brought to the United States to be separated, they were stunned.

“Mommy, why would you want to cut us in half?” they repeatedly asked.

Annabel Clark met the twins three years ago while photographing for Healing the Children Northeast, the charity that arranged the medical visa for Carmen, Lupita, their mother and their older sister, Abigail, in 2002.

http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/20/a-most-intimate-bond/?hp

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. Interesting photos

[yellerpup]

2. They may come from different points of view

but these girls seem to be very much the same person. I loved the photo of them doing their homework, both writing at the same time! And so wonderful of them to invite us to see them as people. Very touching.

[laconicsax]

3. From the title alone, I was expecting Sean Connery in negligè.