Nine years later, twins lead separate but unequal lives
Wednesday, August 17, 2011 - 10:00
in Health & Medicine
They were called "Las Dos Marias," the two Marias, playful 11-month-old twins from Guatemala who were born joined at the head. Nine years after a 23-hour operation at UCLA freed them to live their own lives, they are no longer patients here. But the two surgeons who so famously separated them are still tenuously tethered to the girls.