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Conjoined twin beats the odds, has own child

When Dr. Frank Greer visited the hospital room of brand-new mother Amy Hurt last month, he came bearing an unusual baby gift: Two boxes of slides from a surgery 27 years earlier that made Wisconsin history. The June 1984 operation separated the newborn Amy from her conjoined twin sister only days after their birth. It was complex, closely documented, and celebrated in local news headlines.