Separation is extremely complicated and highly dangerous in most cases — often one or both twins doesn’t make it.
A friend of mine made aliyah about twenty years ago. Her family lived far from civilization, at the time, without regular transportation. So it was only when she was three weeks overdue that she went to a doctor to see if something was wrong.
The doctor did a sonogram, and during the procedure, he spoke across the table to a colleague, in broken, Russian-accented Hebrew.
“It has four legs,” one doctor commented.
“Four arms,” the other added.
“Two hearts,” one said excitedly.
“Two heads … ”
My friend was almost fainting.
“It’s twins,” the two doctors informed her, smiling simultaneously.
“Twins?” she said. “Twins?”
She traveled back to her far-off town to tell her husband — but she was very nervous. “What kind of twins?” was the question that plagued her. She searched frantically for any information pertaining to twins.
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