<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/9f818c8e-fdb5-4665-9911-24cc814ebe0d/750E0523-C705-41F4-9368-8D59620EEEED/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?in_article_id=77135&in_page_id=2" href="http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?in_article_id=77135&in_page_id=2" style="font-size: 11px;">www.metro.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?in_article_id=77135&in_page_id=2"><A href="javascript:PopUp('you_popup','http://img.metro.co.uk/i/pix/2007/11/sambathuonBM_450x470.jpg','470','490')"><IMG width="175" height="125" border="1" alt="Snake boy " src="http://img.metro.co.uk/i/pix/2007/11/sambathuonBM_175x125.jpg" /></A><BR /><DIV class="caption">Sambath Uon and his best pal Lucky</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?in_article_id=77135&in_page_id=2"><P class="article">The struggle to find that perfect pet for their child can send some mothers and fathers loopy. </P><P class="article"> Luckily for the parents of six-year- old Sambath Uon, his best friend slithered right into his lap. </P><DIV id="intelliTXT"><P class="article"> The boy refuses to go to bed without the 6m (20ft) Burmese python named Lucky.</P></DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?in_article_id=77135&in_page_id=2"><P class="article"> 'I love the python like my sister,' said Sambath. 'All my friends are jealous of her.' </P><P class="article"> When Lucky first slunk into the Cambodian village, she was 50cm (20in) long and Sambath was just three months old. </P><P class="article"> His parents tried to return it to the forest three times but she kept coming back. </P><P class="article"> Sambath's mother, Kim Kanara, said: 'We would find it asleep next to Sambath. They have slept together every night for the past six years. </P><P class="article"> 'She is a member of the family now. We shelter, feed, bathe and even pray to her.' Lucky, or Chomreun in Khmer, is thought to have healing powers. </P><P class="article"> Mrs Kanara added: 'Some recovered from sickness after being blessed by her.'</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/750E0523-C705-41F4-9368-8D59620EEEED/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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