On a brisk day in 1934, Violet Hilton, a poised young woman with dreams of marriage, walked into a New York marriage licence bureau hand-in-hand with her fiancé, Maurice Lambert. On her left stood her ever-present conjoined twin sister, Daisy. Their entry caused a commotion, drawing typists and clerks out of their offices to gawk at this unusual trio. However, the stir quickly turned to rejection when a city official, flustered and unprepared for such an unprecedented situation, refused Violet’s