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Lakshmi Tatma is pretty much like any 4-year-old. She’s a little bossy around new friends, likes to pay games with her brother, is a total daddy’s girl and just recently started school. The difference is Lakshmi was born with two torsos and 8 limbs. Oh, and she’s been worshipped as a God since birth.
A 2-year-old boy is recovering after four of the most dangerous needles embedded into his body were removed by surgeons in Brazil. The aforementioned needles were found in the boy’s lung and near his heart. His stepfather sits in jail for forcing the implements into his son.
Mermaid girl? She’s real. The baby with two faces? She’s real too.
But the girl whose skin is supposedly turning into cowhide? I call fake. Take a look:
Suman Khatun is eating herself to death, according to her doctor. The five-year-old from West Bengal weighs in at nearly 168 pounds, despite her average height. And the stress of her insatiable hunger is taking its toll on her family.
Her mother, Belly Bibi, tells Telegraph:
“We can not feed ourselves or our other two children, let alone ourselves. When she is not fed she cries, shouts, screams and has even thrown rocks at us. We give her four square meals a day and two small lunches, but this is never enough. She is our daughter and we have no choice but to feed her.”
5. This old lady at Target looked at me and shook her head. She said, “You young girls need to see there are other things to do in the winter, and you won’t end up in your situation.” I told her I was in my mid 20s and had been married for 3 years and that my “situation” was actually a blessing!
It’s nice when geriatric strangers walk up to you and call you a harlot.
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