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Right now the girls seem content with their lot. "I'm not going to be separated," Britty insists. (Having met just one Holton twin, she has some sense of the risks.) Each girl seems to have established a remarkably solid sense of self. "They do their own work," says Stahlke, their teacher. "When we take tests, they could copy each other so easily, but they don't. If Abby makes a mistake, Britty has that one right. It just amazes me."
Abby wants to be a dentist. Britty dreams of piloting planes. "It's gonna be kind of hard in the cockpit when one's flying and the other one's working on someone's teeth," jokes Mike. They are already asking if they might someday find husbands. And why not? says Mike. Other conjoined twins have married. "They're good-looking girls. They're witty. They've got everything going for them, except," he pauses, "they're together."
--Reported by Jen M.R. Doman with the Hensels