CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — Nearly a decade after undergoing a groundbreaking surgery at Driscoll Children’s Hospital, two former conjoined twins from Brownsville are back in Corpus Christi, this time, stepping into the spotlight for a much different reason.

In 2016, Silvia Hernandez Ambriz gave birth to triplets — Ximena, Scarlett and Catalina. But two of the sisters, Ximena and Scarlett, were born conjoined at the pelvis, requiring an extraordinary medical effort to separate them.

Doctors at Driscoll Children’s Hospital performed the complex surgery, successfully separating the girls, giving them a chance at independent lives.

“Thanks to the doctors, they're here… walking and dancing,” their mother, Silvia Hernandez Ambriz, said.

Doctors once told the family they weren’t sure if the girl

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