TOGETHER FOREVER

YOU do what you’ve got to do.

This was how Ronnie and Donnie Galyon described the years they spent in a travelling circus, being gawked at by strangers as they lounged in their caravan, watching TV, eating, reading or squabbling.

Exploiting people for their differences might sound like an abomination in today’s far more sensitive, politically correct world but when the twins were kids it was all they knew. And they didn’t mind it.

“It was fun,” Ronnie once said of his and his brother’s entertainment career, which began at the age of four when their dad put them on display in a travelling carnival.

But Ronnie and Donnie are