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The parasitic twin's spine and abdomen merged with
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625,000 was paid entirely by the hospital's charitable wing, the Sparsh
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goddess of wealth (who is depicted as four-armed). The girl was sometimes an object of worship as an incarnation of the goddess; by the age of two, she was known all over India. At one point, a
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to the autosite's legs and continued as a main trunk artery which gave off iliac branches to the parasite's legs and continued, and finally forked into the parasite's
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A television program in 2010 showed her recovering well. It was found that cutting the conjoined vertebral column in the separation operation had not caused
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p.m. on 7 November 2007. The combined pelvic ring was divided through or near the parasite's hip joints and not at the
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