Lori and George Schappell obituary: Conjoined twins who defied the limits the world put on them

Lori and George Schappell, conjoined twins whose skulls were partly fused but who managed to lead independent lives, have died aged 62.

She added: “There is much more to Reba and I than this. Get past this already, everybody, get past it and learn to know the individual person.”George, as Reba, performed country music in the United States and abroad; won a Los Angeles Music Award for best new country artist in 1997; and sang The Fear of Being Alone over the closing credits of Stuck on You , a comedy directed by Bobby and Peter Farrelly that starred Greg Kinnear and Matt Damon as conjoined twins.

The Schappell twins were born in West Reading, Pennsylvania, two of eight children of Franklin and Ruth Schappell. Their doctor gave them a year to live. They were not intellectually disabled and so “helped the caregivers there make beds and feed other children”, said Ellen Weissbrod, who directed Face to Face: The Schappell Twins, a 2000 documentary.

The twins said that they never wanted to be surgically separated and that they did not wish they had been born apart. Doctors said that when one of the Schappells died, the other would have almost certainly followed quickly.

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