Article: World Exclusive: Our Siamese Twins Miracle: My heart was thumping .. I was terrified as the doctor came in and told us: They are joined.(News)

Byline: MAGGIE O'RIORDAN and DEBORAH SHERWOOD

JUST moments earlier Luther Rahman and his young wife Nipa had been chatting excitedly about the joy a baby would bring.

Would it be a boy? Or would it be a girl? Luther was praying for a girl, the first female grandchild in his family.

Then the nurse, studying the scan, told them she had "good news". Nipa, 21, was expecting twins.

"For some reason I asked if they were separate," says Nipa. "It was an odd thing for me to say - I wonder if it was because a few weeks earlier I had seen a TV ...

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