The 14-year-old Siamese twin, Gracie Attard, wishes her dead sister Rosie was still alive, despite having no memory of her.

The conjoined twins were separated by doctors in 2000, following an intense ethical debate on whether Rosie should die in order for Gracie to live.

"I wish baby Rosie was here, obviously, but she died when I was tiny, so I don't have any memory of her," Gracie said in an interview with The Daily Mail.

I don't feel guilty that I lived and she died, because what happened wasn't my decision. I haven't cried, but there is sadness. Sometimes, I want her to be with me. We were the same age. We'd probably think like each other."

Sometimes, when I need someone to help me, say when I'm taking an exam, I'll say in my head: "Help me, my little sister." Because that's what sisters do. They help each other, don't they? And I've thought: "Would she look like me? Would we share the same interests?"

Gracie says she learnt how big her story was at the time from reading up on the internet.

"Mum and Dad used to take me to the cemetery where Rosie is buried and tell me: 'She's your sister, and you were twins.' Actually, they said we were joined together," she says.

"Later I heard them use the word 'conjoined'. I didn't know what it meant, and when I was around seven years old, I got my first dictionary and looked it up.

"Then I felt confused, but I said to Mum: 'I know what it is now,' although I still didn't really understand.

"A year or so later, I looked on the internet and found out that our story was a big one that went around the world. I didn't think about that. I just wanted to know exactly what happened.

"I read the stories and it felt as if I was reading a book about someone else. I didn't exactly feel detached, but I wasn't really involved either. It all happened so long ago, when I was a tiny baby."

Looking to the future, Gracie said she is determined to become a doctor. Her favourite subjects are chemistry and biology, and she speaks regularly by email with one of the surgeons who saved her life, Adrian Bianchi, who is also Maltese.

"I tell him about my exams, and that I'm doing well," she says. "And if I have any questions he says: 'You're welcome to ask.' "I'd like to be a doctor, perhaps a children's doctor, because I want to help people. Maybe it's because doctors saved my life, but I think I'd want to anyway," she says.

Photo Mark Richards

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