Conjoined Twins Lori and George Schappell, Who Defied the Odds Since Birth, Dead at 62 The Daily Beast
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- Lori and George Schappell were the first pair of conjoined twins to identify as different genders
- The craniopagus twins shared 30 percent of their brains but led drastically different careers and interests
- The pair was given only a year to live by doctors when they were born in 1961, but they managed to defy the odds
Conjoined twins who set a world record as the oldest with the rare phenomenon, and who were the first to identify as different genders, have died at the age of 62.Lori and George Schappell died at [+1527 chars]
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