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曾被诊断只能活三天的连体女婴16岁了！

When Carmen and Lupita Andrade were born, doctors said they only had three days to live. The conjoined twins, now 16, born in Mexico and now living in New Milford, Connecticut, went though those difficulties and lived far past doctors’ expectations.

Health problems have arisen and placed the girls’ futures at risk, but they tell the Hartford Courant they don’t see the point in a surgery that could end up killing them. “There’s the whole psychological situation,” Carmen says. “We’ve been so used to being together. I don’t think there’d be a point.”

The girls were brought to the U.S. by their parents, who wanted to improve their daughters’ condition. Each of the girls has a heart, a set of arms, a set of lungs and a stomach. But they use the same digestive(消化的) system. Doctors have told them that a surgery to separate them could end in serious problems or death.

Despite these troubles, the girls have done well in school and in their personal lives. Carmen said, “A lot of people don’t notice how different we are. When they first meet us, we have the same reactions.” She continued, “But our friends, once they get to know us, they would say you are so completely different.”

Despite Lupita only having 40 percent lung capacity and a severely curved spine(弯曲的脊柱), the sisters say they’d rather live their lives than run the risk of losing each other. “There’s a lot more risk to it than it actually being beneficial,” Carmen begins, “so we decided not to go through with a surgery,” Lupita finishes. “We’re just going to live out life and that’s it.”