A Life of Pain, Fame, and Ultimate Suffering
Nonetheless, the girls remained together, destined for a life of pain and suffering. It wasn’t all depressing, though. Their lives did get sprinkled with the glitter of fame that they got to experience for many years. That is, until the novelty wore off and their “15 minutes of fame” were up.
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The twins’ final years were sorrowful, just as their early existence was. It began with the tragic detail that their mother, Kate Skinner, a barmaid who wasn’t married at the time, rejected her abnormal babies. It was a time when children with birth defects were called “monsters.”