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Formerly conjoined twins reunite with medical staff who separated them as infants

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Formerly conjoined twins had a heartwarming reunion with the dozens of doctors and nurses who performed their separation surgery 19 years earlier.

As infants, Erin and Jade Buckles shared a diaphragm and doctors weren't sure if they would be able to breathe on their own.

"The hearts were beating together in synchrony," he recalled. "And so that was an unknown -- were the hearts joined or were they separate?" "It was a huge emotional day. And to see them years later ... is very big for me," plastic surgeon Dr. Michael Boyajian said.

 

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