[Elspode]

I look at the picture of these two, and all I can think of is the intelligence in their eyes, the look of mournful acceptance of their lots in life.

Renting oneself out as a circus freak has to be one of the most humiliating vocations possible. It is sort of a, 'isn't it bad enough that we are conjoined twins, but we must debase ourselves for the amusement of others?' thing.

I am saddened, yet filled with admiration for the Iranian twins who risked and lost their lives in an effort to live more normally. The human machine is magnificent when it works, and unspeakably terrible when it malfunctions.