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Dec. 15: Lakshmi, 2, center, sits in her father's lap as her brother, right, looks on before she was discharged from the Sparsha Hospital in Bangalore, India.
Dec. 15: Shambu, feeds his two-year-old daughter Lakshmi before she was discharged from the Sparsha Hospital in Bangalore, India.
Dec. 15: Lakshmi, 2, left, sits in her father's lap as her brother, right, looks on before she was discharged from the Sparsha Hospital in Bangalore, India.
Dec. 15: Lakshmi, 2, gestures to her father Shambu, partly seen, before she was discharged from the Sparsha Hospital in Bangalore, India.
Nov. 13: 1 Father Shambhu, right, holds his daughter Lakshmi as Dr. Sharan Patil, left, looks on during a press conference at Sparsha Hospital in Banglore, India. Swathed in blankets and lying on her father's lap, Lakshmi, appeared before reporters without the extra limbs which had led some people in her rural village to revere her as an incarnation of the four-armed goddess she was named after.
Nov. 13: Shambhu, center, holds his daughter Lakshmi during a press conference at Sparsha Hospital in Banglore, India.
Nov. 13: Shambhu, right, holds his daughter Lakshmi as her mother Poonam, left, looks on during a press conference at Sparsha Hospital in Banglore, India.
Nov. 13: Shambhu, right, holds his daughter Lakshmi as her mother Poonam, left, looks on during a press conference at Sparsha Hospital in Banglore, India.
Nov. 13: Father Shambhu, center, carries his daughter Lakshmi as mother Poonam, left, looks on during a press conference at Sparsha Hospital in Banglore, India.
Nov. 13: Shambhu, unseen, carries his daughter Lakshmi during a press conference at Sparsha Hospital in Banglore, India.
Nov. 13: Dr. Sharan Patil, center left, addresses a press conference along with other doctors at Sparsha Hospital in Banglore, India.
Nov. 8: This computed axial tomography (CT scan) provided by the Sparsh Hospital shows 2-year-old Lakshmi before she underwent surgery in Bangalore, India.
Nov. 8: In this computed axial tomography (CT scan) image provided by the Sparsh Hospital, Indian girl Lakshmi is seen before she underwent a 24-hour operation, in Bangalore, India.
Nov. 6: Dr. Sharan Patil talks to Lakshmi at the Sparsh Hospital in Bangalore, India.
Nov. 6: Lakshmi sits in her mother Poonam's lap as she poses next to with her father Shambhu and brother Mithilesh, right, at the Sparsh Hospital in Bangalore, India.
Nov. 6: Lakshmi looks on at the Sparsh Hospital in Bangalore, India.
Nov. 7: Chief orthopedic surgeon Dr. Sharan Patil, right, addresses the media after the completion of a 24-hour operation on Lakshmi, a girl born with four arms and four legs, at the Sparsh Hospital in Bangalore, India.
Nov. 7: Chief orthopedic surgeon Dr. Sharan Patil, partly seen at left, shows a photo of the operation of Indian girl Lakshmi born with 4 arms and 4 legs, on his laptop computer as he addresses the media after the completion of her operation.
Nov. 7: Doctors that completed 24-hour operation on Lakshmi, the girl born with four arms and four legs, pose for photos after the grueling surgery.