Tasha Coryell | 25
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Everyone was excited about the driving special. It had been so long since they were last on TV, and the nation was desperate for an update. We got all these letters; the inaccuracy in them showed how badly we needed another show. A lot of them said things like, “What happened to that two-headed girl?” Doctors were even writing us. We had more access than they did. The parents kept insisting there was nothing wrong with their children. That’s really what we wanted to show with that special, just how normal the children were. They did everything that normal sixteen-year-olds do, except I don’t know that they dated at all. No one was sure that they’d be able to drive, so we were all elated when it came naturally to them. We filmed them talking online with their friends. It was strange though, they never needed to discuss what they were going to say and referred to themselves as “I” rather than “we.” I guess people are still “I,” even if their “I” includes more than one person. It seemed sort of nice in a way, someone to keep you company all the time. I think that’s how they got through it, they had the other person to support them whenever anything went wrong. The sort of thing people want from their spouses, but never really get because no matter how close you are with someone, they’ll always be some distance away. Not so with these girls, they will never be any distance away.
In college, Student One is able to register for classes first and Student Two is stuck taking classes like “Basket Weaving” and “English Composition 102.” They are charged tuition and a half, not minding that they are only counted as one and a half percent of themselves when there’s money involved. They attend sorority recruitment, but the only sorority that accepts them has room for one more girl and not two. They live in a house with three other girls, and they are the only ones forced to share a room.
When they graduate, they must order a robe made for an obese man, the neck still too small for both their heads. The announcer puts their names in the wrong order, and