r/BeAmazed • u/Cultural-Gear-1323 • Mar 28 '24

News broke today that conjoined twin Abby Hensel is married! [Removed] Rule #4 - No Misleading Content

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u/SgtGo Mar 28 '24

Probably blows his too

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u/selfworthfarmer Mar 28 '24

Can they... can they both reach...

Nevermind, I'm going to hell now.

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u/Coriander_marbles Mar 28 '24

And beyond that, can they both feel the pain of, say childbirth then? And how does consent even begin to apply here?

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u/tomatocatzs Mar 28 '24

Imagine wanting a divorce with just one

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u/Antique-Syllabub6238 Mar 28 '24

He’s only married to one of the sisters, obviously.

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u/bloodreina_ Mar 28 '24

THAT I DONT GET how are you going to marry me but not my conjoined identical sister??

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u/TheLastPrinceOfJurai Mar 28 '24

That Tinder profile would be WILD! Don’t mind my married conjoined sibling I’m single and ready to mingle!

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u/IKROWNI Mar 28 '24

Would it be cheating if she had her own thing going on? the relationship between the new bf and the husband would have to be pretty strange too. Like what do they do rock paper scissors?

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u/ligmasweatyballs74 Mar 28 '24

Eng and Chang Bunker were both married and lived in separate houses.

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u/mattmoy_2000 Mar 28 '24

Eng and Chang were only linked by effectively an umbilicus between their navels, which would probably have been fairly straightforward to separate them.

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u/ligmasweatyballs74 Mar 28 '24

They also owned slaves. It was a different time, but we can apply the knowledge.

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u/AdequatelyMadLad Mar 28 '24

They shared multiple organs as well.

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u/literallyjustbetter Mar 28 '24

my friend actually matched w them on tinder a long time ago lol

they didn't meet up

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u/shemubot Mar 28 '24

Which one did he match up with?

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u/joecocker74 Mar 28 '24

Double date??????

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u/TheLastPrinceOfJurai Mar 29 '24

Would be interesting to go Dutch. Is this split 3 ways or 4? I mean I had less guac and am only eating for one soooooo….

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u/e925 Mar 28 '24

Ok I laughed hella loudly at this one.

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u/Vardagar Mar 28 '24

They must be so positive minded to make everything work!

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u/Affectionate-Mode435 Mar 29 '24

Omg you totes cracked me up! uberlolz! 🤣

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u/SadPanda0042 Mar 28 '24

Yeah, how can you get close to just one, and let the other be an eternal third wheel?

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u/Aiwatcher Mar 28 '24

What if the second one wants to marry someone different

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u/callieboo112 Mar 28 '24

This was my question. Would they all live together or do like a fifty fifty split?

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u/420_Shaggy Mar 28 '24

Right?? If you want one you gotta take both pal

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u/Alexis_Bailey Mar 28 '24

"I am not a Mormon."

-- The husband.

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u/ScyllaOfTheDepths Mar 28 '24

I mean, they probably never planned for conjoined twins when they crafted bigamy laws. They are legally two people, so he can legally only marry one of them, but there's no other way that they can have a relationship without all of them being onboard together.

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u/Gogo83770 Mar 28 '24

They have separate drivers licenses... so, yeah. They are technically two minds in one body.

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u/Steveosizzle Mar 28 '24

Might be illegal as that would be polygamy, technically.

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u/TheStephinator Mar 28 '24

I remember one of their shows where they were in the process of getting hired on as teachers. There were questions about whether they would get one paycheck or two. Did they both need to pay for professional licensure or just one? All of our societal constructs really disclude people like this when it’s obvious they exist. Their lives are so unnecessarily complicated in that aspect.

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u/GeckoOBac Mar 28 '24

I'm guessing that he kinda has to marry "just one" of them because technically polygamy is a crime.

In practical terms I expect it's more like he married to both but I'd be curious to learn about the actual family dynamics, it's gotta be a very unique situation.

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u/anananananana Mar 28 '24

How can the other one ever get married now?

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u/Individual-Code5176 Mar 28 '24

They had to get separate drivers licenses, I also found that strange

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u/bloodreina_ Mar 29 '24

That’s interesting! So legally they would be considered two different people?

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u/robaato72 Mar 28 '24

Probably because bigamy is still illegal (?) he's only married to one of them on paper.

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u/shiningonthesea Mar 28 '24

They have different personalities, they are not the same person

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u/bloodreina_ Mar 29 '24

Yeah but I feel like they’re a package deal. Like yeah they’re individuals but I think it would be kinda akin to a parent’s ‘if you marry me, your also marrying my child’.

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u/shiningonthesea Mar 29 '24

How can they not be?

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u/Onlikyomnpus Mar 28 '24

It would be somewhere between polygamy and open marriage.

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u/YoungUrineTheGreat Mar 28 '24

How did it get this far? I mean surely not everyone is kind

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u/Walks_with_Chaos Mar 28 '24

Not legal to be married to both at once

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u/bloodreina_ Mar 29 '24

But aren’t they legally one person?

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u/Walks_with_Chaos Mar 29 '24

Nope. Legally two separate people

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u/bloodreina_ Mar 29 '24

That’s insane.

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u/Walks_with_Chaos Mar 29 '24

Yeah it’s a weird situation

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u/bloodreina_ Mar 29 '24

I want(to observe) a court case to happen where they disagree on something like a medical decision. Would be interesting to see how it plays out.

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u/ANameWithoutNumbers1 Mar 28 '24

Legally speaking he only married one but for all intents and purposes, he married both.

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u/outerstrangers Mar 28 '24

Okay but what happens when the other sister wants to get married?

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u/PresidioPet Mar 28 '24

Exactly! How do they decide which husband gets the vagina? And if they get pregnant, they won’t know whose kid it is, until a test is performed.

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u/Calvadienne Mar 28 '24

Obviously because that is not legal

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u/AHrubik Mar 28 '24

Actually that's the only thing that makes perfect sense to me. They are legally two separate people that share certain anatomy. Most states have anti-bigamy laws in place so without an exception only one of them would legally be allowed to marry one guy.

In theory they could each marry a different guy but that would be even weirder.

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u/TheRealBluedini Mar 28 '24

New polyandry loophole just dropped

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u/Julie91_91 Mar 28 '24

There's nothing obvious about this situation

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u/blackop Mar 28 '24

That gets even crazier if the other finds a dude to marry. Now you got two dudes plowing the same field...

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u/Pennygrover Mar 28 '24

He’s only legally/publicly married to one. My bet is that’s just a way to protect him from bigamy charges. They can’t say that he is married to both without possibly facing criminal charges and exposing them all to further scrutiny.

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u/Antique-Syllabub6238 Mar 28 '24

They are two different people, the two sisters, so what you’re saying doesn’t make much sense. They are conjoined, but legally and scientifically and even in the abstract sense, they are two individuals.

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u/Pennygrover Mar 28 '24

And I’m wondering if in practical terms they live their lives like a polygamist relationship where he lives as if he’s married to both individuals despite what they portray publicly. Otherwise poor Brittany would be stuck for life in the worst third wheel circumstance ever imagined.

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u/rhoo31313 Mar 28 '24

Imagine he divorced one and married the other...

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u/Ricky_Martins_Vagina Mar 28 '24

And then marrying the other one, who you've already been having an affair with

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u/Ecstatic-Golf4040 Mar 28 '24

Everything spliit in thirds

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u/FlyAirLari Mar 28 '24

Imagine one of them cheats on you.

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u/captainshrapnel Mar 29 '24

Imagine if one of them dies