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They have four arms and four legs and separate hearts and stomachs but share a lower digestive tract, a groin, a rectum and penis, over which Donnie has control.
The twins were born healthy in Dayton, Ohio in October 1951 but stayed in the hospital for two years as doctors tried to figure out how to separate them.
Ronnie and Donnie lived that way until they died from congestive heart failure on July 4th, 2020 at 68, as theoldest conjoined twins ever recorded.
Ronnie and Donnie’s six-decade career in entertainment provides a glimpse into how America still puts humans on display. Growing up in the 1990s, she saw sideshows included in rock festivals like Lollapalooza, and later, Riot Fest.
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They were 62 years and 202 days old. Later in their lives, doctors told them that they could be safely separated, but the brothers — who had spent their entire lives face-to-face — weren’t interested.
“It’s the same thing without the guilt,” he explains. “We always said we would never do it, but we were constantly hounded to death of people wanting to see them,” Wesley said inBeing Different. The date means they will have lived longer than the original “Siamese Twins,” Chang and Eng Bunker, who became famous as a sideshow act in the 1800's.
“Put it this way -- I’m stoked,” Ronnie Galyon, 62, told the Denton Daily News.
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Ronnie and Donnie Gaylon were born in 1951 and live with their younger brother, Jim Galyon, and his wife in Beavercreek, Ohio.
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The Sideshow Must Go On
While participating in a fair in San Bernardino in 1961,Wesley Galyon was arrested by local authoritiesunder a little-known section of the California Penal Code. They could make their own food, do the laundry and could shower unassisted.
The twins were also active in the community and moved around thanks to a custom double wheelchair.
“This has been a life-long goal to meet and beat the Bunker twins.
They were hospitalised in 2009 after Ronnie suffered a viral infection which resulted in a life-threatening blood clot in his lungs.
Following their hospitalisation, they required round-the-clock care and needed help with almost everything, including going to the toilet.
Meet the conjoined twins, 62, from Ohio as they prepare to become the world's longest living duo
- Ronnie and Donnie Galyon hope to become the world's oldest conjoined twins in October, when they turn 63
- This weekend they are celebrating overtaking the age of their heroes, Thai twins Chang and Eng Bunker, who died in North Carolina in 1874
- Later in the year, they hope to overtake Italian twins Giacomo and Giovanni Battista Tocciwho died aged 63 in 1940
- The men, who made money for their family at circuses when they were growing up, live with their brother in Ohio in a custom-made home
- They have two sets of arms and legs and their own hearts and stomachs but share a lower digestive tract and a penis, which Donnie controls
By LYDIA WARREN
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A set of 62-year-old conjoined twins from Ohio are preparing to become the world's longest living duo as they hit a massive milestone this weekend.
Ronnie and Donnie Galyon, the oldest living conjoined twins, will overtake the age of their heroes, Thai twins Chang and Eng Bunker, as they turn 62 years, eight months and seven days on Friday.
The twins have four arms and four legs between them
The Galyon twins, who are joined at the waist and face each other, are throwing a party Saturday to mark overtaking their heroes, Mlive reported. “I ingrained myself in punks, especially riot grrrl, because punks did not care about what you look like,” she tells Rolling Stone.
There was also increased societal self-awareness — or “political correctness,” as Hartzman describes it — that made people uncomfortable. But soon after as Hartzman points out, carnivals and circuses saw attendance dwindling as they had to compete with newer forms of entertainment like television and films. He and his wife now care for his brothers 24 hours a day.
“[They] have their own totally different personalities,” said Jim Galyon.
“Now, I can sit on my couch and gawk and stare at people with these anomalies and not feel guilty, because I’m not looking at them in person, and they don’t have to see me looking at them.” In both forms, Hartzman says, the appeal comes down to the fact that we’re all innately curious, and curiosity will always sell.
That was up until 2010, when they received a custom-made chair bed that allowed them to sleep at the same time.
Despite sharing many aspects of their lives, the twins had different personalities and political opinions. It’s a genre of reality shows that, like a sideshow, gives audiences the opportunity to see people with different bodies that they typically don’t encounter in real life (like conjoined twins).
They’re asking anyone who might have seen Ronnie and Donnie Galyon in their circus days to can contact the Galyon family at Worldsoldestconjoinedtwins@gmail.com.
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Inside life of longest-living conjoined twins who travelled with circus from just three years old
Conjoined twins Ronnie and Donnie Galyon became Guinness World Records holders when they turned 63 and lived until the age of 68, when they sadly passed away due to heart failure
The world's oldest set of conjoined twins, who joined carnivals and circuses at just three years old, beat all odds during their lives, reaching the age of 68 when they died in 2020.
Ronnie and Donnie Galyon were born in Dayton, Ohio, on October 25, 1951, to parents Eileen and Wesley Gaylon.
The twins moved in with their younger brother after they became deathly ill following a viral infection and were in the intensive care unit with various health problems, including blood clots in Ronnie’s lungs.
With the help of the community and the Christian Youth Corps, Jim Galyon was able to build an addition on his house and make it handicap accessible.
According to an interview with Wesley in the 1981 documentaryBeing Different, which features interviews with people with rare physical differences, the doctor who delivered the boys told Wesley and Eileen that they weren’t likely to survive. The Galyon twins lived on their own after retirement, although they moved just a few houses down from their brother so that he could help them.
Their brother Jim said Robbie loved eating and Donnie was the one doing most of the household chores.
Jim looked after their finances, giving them a monthly allowance, as the twins loved toy cars and he feared they would spend all their money on buying them.