9/11/2001 personalized postcards (and one personalized stamp design that was finally approved by Zazzle, who usually just WON'T SHOW RUINS of WTC on a stamp!) that I recently created at zazzle, plus personalized stamps with other subjects. Feel free to create yours - you don't have to buy anything

Interesting people: Abigail and Brittany Hensel, dicephalic parapagus twins. They learned how to live in inescapable togetherness, and they want us to get past our impulse to freak out - they, too, are worthy and respectable human beings, though highly unusual. Also, a "Learning never ends" freestyle maximum card

"Learning never ends" says the stamp from USA.

"I don't pay attention; I am not a stamp/postmark collector" seems to say the postmark, since a postal associate has inserted the date slug upside-down in the canceller.

"Start thinking about college" says the ad(vertisement) postcard.

This is not a FIP-compliant maximum card, since 

"in general, abstract or symbolic subjects do not suit Maximaphily and are excluded from its field." says the Commission for Maximaphily of FIP:

http://maximaphily.info/Articles/Regulations/MXLY%20regulations%20approved%20in%20Malaga%20conference.%20English%20version.pdf

I created this maximum card (or dorincard, if that pacifies you) regardless of any rule and regulation of FIP.

My only rule is: "if I want, I'll just do it."

My only question is: "Do I like it?".

What I say is "Yes, learning never ends - in various ways, with or without any college."

Interesting people: Abigail and Brittany Hensel, dicephalic parapagus twins

http://www.care2.com/news/member/290588163/666086

http://jeez.co.za/2011/03/the-twins-who-share-a-body-abigail-and-brittany-hensel/

They learned how to live in inescapable togetherness, and they want us to get past our impulse to freak out - they, too, are worthy and respectable human beings, though highly unusual. 

We all should learn about the diversity of life, including human life, and be more respectful, supportive and open-minded.

"Abigail "Abby" Loraine Hensel and Brittany "Britty" Lee Hensel (born March 7, 1990 in Carver County, Minnesota, US) are dicephalic parapagus twins, meaning that they are conjoined twins of whom each has a separate head, but whose bodies are joined. 

They are highly symmetric, giving the appearance of having just a single body with little variation from normal proportion. In fact, several vital organs are doubled up, each woman having a separate heart, stomach, spine and spinal cord.

Each twin controls her half of their body, operating one of the arms and one of the legs. 

This means that as infants, the initial learning of physical processes that required bodily coordination, such as clapping, crawling, and walking required the cooperation of both children. 

While each is able to eat and write separately and simultaneously, activities such as running and swimming must be coordinated and alternate symmetrically. 

Other activities as diverse as brushing hair and driving a car require that each twin perform a sequence of quite separate actions that coordinate with the other."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abigail_and_Brittany_Hensel

Please watch this video, get over your possible initial inclination to freak out (or to think about them as freaks), and appreciate the difficult, brave and unusual struggle of two human beings, trapped in the same body, to make a life (or two lives) for themselves, as much as possible.

http://youtu.be/7ZUzi0RhBpM

There are other videoclips, too.

See also:
Lori and George Schappell - conjoined twins
http://dorincard.blogspot.com/2011/09/conjoined-twins-to-separate-or-not-to.html


See also:
 "Masha and Dasha Krivoshlyopova were born in Moscow, Russia on January 4, 1950. They were ischiopagus tripus twins (their third, vestigial leg was amputated when they were 16 or 17 years old) with their spines conjoined at 180-degree angles."
http://dorincard.blogspot.com/search?q=masha+dasha
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Please visit: http://thebestheartsarecrunchy.blogspot.com/ (wait until Beth posts the today's Linky tool for the meme, then make your entry, if you want to join).

American maximum card with Bart Simpson saying "Peace, man.". Walt Disney discovered long ago that drawing 4 fingers is faster than drawing 5. Bart's 2 fingers for the Victory sign are stubby and chubby enough for me to say that they also form a heart shape

Bart Simpson, from the beloved animated TV sitcom "The Simpsons".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpsons

The problem with peace is that you cannot just wish to have it.

How can you have peace, when your enemy wants a piece [of you]?

Many times, the only way to keep the peace is to ENFORCE it.

Or to seriously threaten to enforce it.

And when necessary, demonstrate that you were not joking.

"I told you so!"

Si vis pacem, para bellum...

If you want peace, prepare for war...- Latin proverb.

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