"Everybody considers her a goddess at our village," said her father.Well... maybe not quite everybody.
Doctors say the operation will give Lakshmi, a girl from rural northern India, a chance to start life again after two years in which her parents hid her from deeply superstitious villagers — "who alternately revered her as a Hindu deity and tried to buy her for a circus".
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