Honoring Gospel's Only Siamese Twins through Pictures in 30 Seconds

Yvonne and Yvette McCarther (1949-1992). Born joined at the top of the head, it was predicted that they would be unable to walk and that they would both be mentally challenged. Neither would prove to be the case (in fact, it was determined that they had above average intelligence, which leads me to wonder if Kurt Vonnegut had gotten inspiration from them for his novel Slapstick of Another Kind).
Willa (Willie) McCarther, then a struggling 38-year-old divorced mother of five normal children, had more faith in her God than in medical predictions. “God gave them to me,” she told the doctors, “so I guess he’ll show me how to raise them.” And for the next 40 years, she did. Willie McCarther, a garment worker, taught her babies not only to walk but, more important, to accept their lot as the grace of God and to respect themselves as two people, not one.
Only the first six months of their lives were spent in a sideshow; they toured with the Royal American Circus to help pay off their medical bills. Later, however, they did travel around the country and tour as gospel singers.
In 1987, bored with a life of sleep and television soap operas, the twins began classes at Compton Community College after finding the school's catalog in the mailbox.They began living on their own, in their own apartment. They passed away on December 15, 1992, and were discovered two weeks later.