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Extraordinary life of the sisters who share one body with one leg each

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Conjoined at birth, sisters Carmen and Lupita know they will spend their entire lives together. The two girls who are joined at the abdomen down to their pelvis, where their spines meet have both two arms but only one leg each - Carmen controls the right leg and Lupita, the left.

At the age of they took their first step – which wasn't easy as they had to learn to balance and co-ordinate, reports the Mirror.

They are omphalopagus twins, which make up 10% of all conjoined twins. It means each of the girls has a heart, a set of arms, a set of lungs and a stomach.

In one of the girls' first disagreements, mum Norma Andrade-Solli looked on as her little baby daughter Carmen guzzled the last of her milk and, still hungry, immediately reached out

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