Tasha Coryell | 23
Deleted scenes:
We did it out of curiosity more than anything else. Nobody knew what these
bab[ies] would look like until we showed up at their house with a video camera. It was very normal, really. They have older children too, and they were running around the house, and the bab[ies] were screaming. It still wasn’t guaranteed they were going to live yet. The doctors considered removing one of the heads, but then the other head would be left with a half-paralyzed body. You know how when they remove a tree from the ground, there’s still a stump sticking out? I bet it would’ve looked like that, just a stump of a head, like it never really grew at all. The remaining twin could’ve really said that they had lost a part of themselves. It would’ve made a good show. We could’ve titled it something like My Parents Killed My Twin Sister Who Was Attached To Me. What we had was probably better, but there were so many possibilities. That’s what was exciting about it. The doctors were excited; we were excited. We were all excited together but speaking different languages. They wanted the bab[ies] to live, and we wanted television. Television that did what was best for the bab[ies], of course.
The IRS contacts the parents and says, “You have two children listed here, but only one body.” The father sends a letter back and says, “Yes, but I have two mouths to feed.” The IRS changes all of their forms to read: We count children by stomachs, not mouths. The child[ren] are repeatedly brought in front of the school honor board for allegations of cheating. “Student One deliberately looked at Student Two’s paper during every test and every homework assignment. It appears that Student One deliberately changed answers to appear different from Student Two.” The Supreme Court issues a verdict that people conjoined by a minimum of two body parts cannot be discriminated against and such discrimination would be considered a hate crime.
Classmate (allegedly, sent to the principal, but denied accusations):
Two heads are better than one.