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[1] In the hands of⁽¹⁾ both of their parents, twin brothers Amari and javar leave the children's hospital of Philadelphia for the first time, since they were born conjoined last September.
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[3] Shaneka and Tim Ruffin knew their twins would be born conjoined, so the first goal was to ensure a safe birth.
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[4] With the nature of the conjoinment, and CHOP's history of success in separation surgeries, Tim Ruffin felt some relief.
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[5] The chests were not joined, their hearts were not joined, they had separate normal structure function hearts.
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[6] Energy changed, and that changed all of us, like for, like, "How confident they was and how positive was."
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[7] The twins spent 10 months in the hospital prior to the surgery, learning how to feed and grow outside of the womb.
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[9] More like overwhelmed with like joy and excitement a little bit of nervousness, because it is a surgery and I feel as though them being so young is still like scary. - The actual surgery lasted 8 hours, the outcome a success.
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[10] When the ending is happy and joyous, that fulfills us in a way that constantly feels, that sense of humanism, that we want to infuse in the type of care, that we offer our families.
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[11] They finally got to leave the hospital with their parents and their siblings this week. 这周他们终于和父母以及兄弟姐妹一起离开了医院。
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[12] They'll still have to come back for weekly checkups, Shaneka already reflecting on how the boys will react when they're older.
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[13] I was thinking about them being like five going to kindergarten or they got to do show and tell and I showed them a picture and they'd like "well who's this?" and I'm like "y'all work a joint, that's y'all."