Conjoined twins survived one of the world’s rarest surgeries. Now they’re preparing to go home.

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    Abby Delaney can roll onto her stomach, hold up her head and turn pages in her favorite books.

    Her sister, Erin, can now sit up on her own, and she is starting to think about crawling — learning to hold herself up on her small hands and knees.

    More than four months after the formerly conjoined twins were separated in a rare surgery at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, their mother said there have been rewarding but “terrifying” moments as the 15-month-olds recover.

    “I know that when you see stories of conjoined twins being separated it's so exciting and everyone is so happy,” Heather Delaney wrote Sunday in a blog post. “I wasn’t able to have that moment for a while.”

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