We've Got to Be Strong for Faith ; After Losing One of Their Siamese Twins Last Week, the Parents of Faith and Hope Tell How the Brief Life of One Daughter Is Helping Them Fight for the Life of the Other

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ALED and Laura Williams had been waiting eight-and-a-half hours when the phone call finally came. After a gruelling emergency operation at Great Ormond Street Hospital, their Siamese twin daughters, Hope and Faith, had been successfully separated.

'They called on Aled's phone,' said Laura. 'I saw his jaw drop and he just looked really shocked. I didn't know if it was good shock or bad shock. But they said that the girls were separated, that Faith would be back upstairs in the intensive care unit in about an hour and that they were still working on Hope.

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We've Got to Be Strong for Faith ; After Losing One of Their Siamese Twins Last Week, the Parents of Faith and Hope Tell How the Brief Life of One Daughter Is Helping Them Fight for the Life of the Other

'We thought it was really good news. We knew they might not survive the operation but after that call we thought they'd pulled through.' The relief they must have felt in that moment is unimaginable. For eight months Laura, 18, had nurtured her daughters knowing, all the while, they might not make it.

Then, in the days after their birth, she and her husband had hoped and prayed as their girls lay in intensive care, tightly hugging each other, their two hearts side by side and beating as one. Now, it seemed, everything was going to be all right.

But 15 minutes later a nurse came into the ...

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