isn't she AMAZING? the first thing i thought of was a spider (and spiders, to me, are amazing beings). the second thing i thought of was lakshmi. it turns out that people in the village where she is from thought of lakshmi as well. according to news reports the young girl is revered as a reincarnation of the hindu goddess.
sadly, her parents have had to protect her from people who have tried to buy her so they can exploit her in a circus. it seems to me that when someone is different people handle it in three different ways - they either want to exploit them, they want to revere them, or they want to 'fix' them and make them normal.
i'm not judging the parents for opting for surgery, but it does make me sad that our world is always searching for 'normal' instead of revering 'different.' different is often AMAZING.
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But it IS a world in which you can't expect someone to lead a happy life like that, because of the way that they are treated. I'm not saying that it can't happen, but you can't expect it to. Know what I mean?
this may be just plain wrong, but did all of the limbs work properly? is it possible that she could have been the ultimate multi-tasker? was she born like that because she was supposed to be twins?
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