Perhaps it is because Danielle Heaney and Nick Cameron don't look in the least alike that they pass so easily for a pair of young lovers no different from any other. She is a petite, delicate, blue-eyed blonde, while he is a strapping young man with auburn hair and soft brown eyes which never stray for long from her face.
Forbidden love: Nick Cameron and his half-sister Danielle Heaney are hopelessly in love. A judge says if they have sex, they'll be jailed...
Tragedy of the children born with genetic defects because "their parents are cousins"...
They hold hands, they kiss, they stroke each other's arms, they listen attentively to each other. They are totally besotted.
What makes this scene so disturbing, however, is the fact that Danielle and Nick are half brother and sister.
Incest remains one of society's last taboos, as this troubled young couple know only too well. Prison is the ever present threat to this forbidden union.
"I know that loving my brother in this way is wrong morally and legally, but it just feels right," says 22-year-old Danielle. "The only way to explain it is to say that the day I met Nick, I felt I had finally met my soulmate. Everything clicked. I would marry him if I could."
Nick, 28, adds: "My feelings are very confused. We are very deeply in love with each other, but sometimes I think 'she's my little sister. I shouldn't be feeling this way....
"All I know is that for the first time in my life I feel I belong. I should feel ashamed of it, but I don't."
Danielle and Nick have different fathers but the same mother. They grew up apart after Nick was placed in foster care as a child, and only met as adults in August 2006.....
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