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The Girl With Eight Limbs

This is interesting:

Doctors began operating today on a 2-year-old girl born with four arms and four legs in an extensive surgery that they hope will leave the girl with a normal body, a hospital official said.Lakshmi is joined to a “parasitic twin” who stopped developing in the mother’s womb. The surviving fetus absorbed the limbs, kidneys and other body parts of the undeveloped fetus.[source]

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