Eight-limbed "Goddess girl" takes first steps

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	Eight-limbed "Goddess girl" takes first steps

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6-15-2008 5:55 PM

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The two-year-old, who was sent into hiding after a circus tried to buy her, was all smiles as she shuffled around in a baby walker.
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But this does not mark the end of the struggle for the young girl, named after the eight-limbed Hindu goddess of wealth and fortune.
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Lakshmi was born joined at the spine to a headless, 'parasitic' twin in Bihar, north-eastern India.
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For more than a year she was linked to the twin because her parents feared an operation on the goddess 'reincarnation' would bring bad luck.
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But doctors warned that their little girl would probably not survive into her teens unless they acted.
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She travelled thousands of kilometres to Bangalore, southern India, where 30 neurosurgeons worked for 27 hours to remove the extra limbs and separate her spinal column and kidney. The toddler now attends a school for the disabled.
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