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A Story of Two Sisters

A Story of Two Sisters

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Katy Hessel
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On 1 May 1943, twins Judith and Joyce Scott were born.

As young children, they were inseparable: playing together, making mud pies, curling up together at night, rejoicing in their shared love of bunnies, “enclosed in their own world” as Joyce recently recalled.

But after a short while, their parents noticed that Judith wasn’t learning to speak like the…

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