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"Are you there, Evelyn?"
"Yes, of course I am. I'm always here. What's the matter, Evelyn?"
"I'm frightened. It's that time of year again, isn't it, Evelyn?"
"Yes, it is that time of year again, Evelyn."
"Tell me once more how it all happened, Evelyn."
"Hush now. We don't talk about that. Because it makes us sad, Evelyn."
"I won't be sad this time, I promise. Please? Tell me again about the tragic events of September, Evelyn..."
"The year is 1985. St. Elmo's Fire is at the top of the charts, the wreckage of the Titanic has just been discovered at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, and on a small farm on the Kansas-Colorado border, a young mother is about to give birth."
"The local doctor has predicted twins, which gladdens the hearts of the woman and her husband, who could certainly use the extra help around the farm."
But the birth does not go well.
"The terrified father drives his screaming, hemorrhaging wife to the local clinic, a poorly funded facility housed in a converted air stream trailer. The residing physician is Dr. Charlie Von Kook, a local denture maker of dubious training with eccentric religious beliefs."
"The labor is long and painful, and Louisa Neville, a Mennonite girl who had given up a promising career as a legal assistant to join her first and only love on the run-down farm that was his only inheritance-"
May her soul rest forever in peace-
"-is pronounced dead by the doctor at 11:23 am on the eleventh day of September, precisely twelve minutes after the birth of her twin daughters."
"The girls are parapagus tripus dibrachius twins, conjoined at the side and sharing between them three legs, two arms, two hearts, three lungs, and a single liver."
"Without hesitating, Dr. Von Kook places the infants on the operating table. Muttering Biblical quotations of doubtful accuracy, the doctor leaves the trailer and returns with a gas-powered chainsaw. The noise is deafening in the small space as he starts the engine and prepares for the grisly operation."
"At this very moment, Sheriff Wilbur Owens, who had noticed the Neville's car parked outside the clinic, steps inside to see if he could be of assistance. Seeing the crazed doctor hovering above the newborns, the teeth of the chainsaw about to connect with their innocent flesh, the valiant sheriff draws his pistol and fires."
"As the bullet pierces his heart, Dr. Von Kook emits a cry and stumbles backwards."
"Samuel Neville, a timid, nervous man who wanted nothing more than a quiet country life with many children, is still in a state of shock over the death of his young wife, and the alarming physiology of his daughters when he is struck in the neck by the chainsaw blade."
Killing him instantly.
"Distraught, the good sheriff takes the infants to his car. He radios back to the station, where it is arranged for the twins to be admitted to the Bethany Center for Developmentally Disabled Youth in Topeka. Sheriff Owens decides to deliver the twins to the Bethany Center personally."
"Less than an hour into the drive, an oncoming truck swerves, crosses the median, and strikes the sheriff's car. The sheriff is thrown into the windshield, knocking him unconscious. he will die, thirty minutes later, from loss of blood."
"Meanwhile, the world has become a sea of feathers as the truck's cargo of live chickens, many among them now seriously injured or dead, spill into the road. A small awkward man limps out of the truck's cab and cautiously approaches the sheriff's vehicle."
"The man's eyes focus on the twin girls, calmly looking up at him from the back seat. Ignoring the dying sheriff, the truck driver lifts the infants into his arms and sets them in the cab of the damaged vehicle."
"He unhitches the trailer and climbs into the cab, abandoning the defenseless chickens to their grim fate on interstate 70."
"A smile forms on his lips as he puts his truck into gear and continues down the highway."
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