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It was always their fear,

you know,

from the time

they were reckoning children,

that some doctor

would try to separate them.

- We've always been together.

And we'll be that way

forever.

- So Daisy died.

- Violet,

after her sister died,

had made the choice

to refuse medical intervention,

to, you know, just say,

"It's okay.

You know, we made a pact

that we would go together,"

and to know

that your sister's gone

and to wait for

the inevitable to happen.

- I don't think

she would have wanted to live

without her sister

at that point.

I don't think they could have.

- Daisy was with her

every second.

And, you know, how could you

imagine a life without her?

But the fact that

she had to, you know,

witness her sister's death

is heart-wrenching.

- The house was one of those

that had a heat grate

in the floor.

And I believe

it was in the hallway.

And they were found dead

on the heat grate.

Because of this flu,

they had gotten really cold,

and they were trying

to stay warm.

- Daisy's decomposition

was greater than Violet's,

so those last couple of days

must have been nightmarish

for Violet

with her sister there.

I think, you know,

she drank a lot, smoked a lot,

and then ultimately just...

slipped away.

- They found that

they had already wrapped

all of their Christmas presents

and marked them

to go to their friends.

- And they felt that, you know,

"We came into this world

together.

Let's go out together,"

you know?

They had that kind of a pact

they had made,

and so it was.

- It was not a huge funeral.

Mostly people from around town

who knew them

and came to see them.

They were buried in one grave,

obviously one coffin

and one grave.

It, I believe,

had to be specially built.

They're buried out in

Forest Lawn Cemetery

here in Charlotte,

which is probably

one of the prettier,

you know, of two or three

nicest cemeteries in town.

- My uncle, J.C. Carrel,

got to know them over the years,

became friends.

He was a guy with a... -

hard-drinking truck driver

with a tender heart.

He did a lot for people.

And when they died abruptly,

he had an extra plot

in the cemetery,

and they needed a place

to be buried,

so he was gonna give them

the plot next to his son.

- They knew no other life.

The tragedy in the life

was that their life changed.

The life around them changed.

The world changed.

That band of tissue

is what made them special.

- If you separate the two girls,

there no longer would have been

the Hilton sisters.

- Sometimes when life is bad

and you're broke

or your, you know... -

your manager's left you

or whatever,

you know, what else

do they have to hold on to

that made them special?

That was it.

- I don't know

that they ever had

that fairy-tale happy ending.

I think there was always,

you know,

complications

that got in the way,

and I think that

frustrated them.

But I don't think

they ever gave up.

I think they were always... -

you know, I think

they believed in the dream.

I think they believed

that they could have

that happily ever after.

They just didn't find it.

- Our physical bond was not

going to be our cross.

- There were many rules

we were forced to follow.

But we had learned

that most of our problems

could be settled inwardly... -

sleeping, eating,

living together.

There were no adjustments

in our relationship

we couldn't make.

We've always said

we were like other people...

yet different.

From the moment

we started to crawl,

when the leg of the table

got between us

and we couldn't pass,

but we decided

that our physical bond

would never be our cross.

But we've been successful.

We've reached the top

in show business,

and there isn't a thing

we can't have,

except happiness.

We've fooled ourselves

that by entertaining others,

we were making ourselves happy.

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