Baby Born With 2 faces Born in India :
Autumn Horvath
4/13/08
The article I chose was an internet article about a little girl named Lali. Lali is a baby who was born in India with
an extremely rare condition known as crainofacial duplication. It is a condition where a child is born with a single head and
two faces. Lali has only one set of ears, but has two sets of eyes, two mouths and two noses. Because the child is born of
Hindu decent, she is considered a gift from God to the people in her village. It is said that Lali is a reincarnation of the
Hindu goddess of valor named Durga, who was a firey deity traditionally depicted with three eyes and many arms.
Since the baby's birth, there have been hudreds of visitors at her home every day to touch her feet out of respect, offer money
and receive blessings, her father, Vinod Singh told The Associated Press.
Lalis' mother Sushma Singh had a normal delivery on March 11, 2008. After Lali was born,......
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