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There once was this guy – Dorky Dad
In his wife’s bra he looked really rad
She caught him in the act
She’s perplexed, that’s a fact
All because of a dare that’s gone bad.
Please… head over to Dorky Dad’s and encourage his wife to post the photo she says she has (of him wearing her bra). If you’re new here and not sure what I’m talking about, click through the links in the poem starting with the last one first.
And because you know you’re thrilled that I dared him to take that photo in a bra, why not click over to Humor-Blogs and help raise my standings on their list of humor blogs? No voting is necessary, they tabulate based on the number of click throughs from here to there. Dorky Dad… I’m catching up. I suppose you’ll have to take a photo wearing Frank if you want to stay ahead of me.
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Update: Since the time of the writing of this post, baby Lali has passed away. Special thanks to Ismael for providing this link to verify this fact. Baby Lali may have only lived a short time, but she inspired much needed discussion and thought, and also much love and compassion. May she rest in peace.
No, the image you see to your right isn’t trick photography, nor is it a joke or a prank created with the wonders of Photoshop or Paintshop Pro.
The image you see is that of Lali, a baby recently born to impoverished parents in Saini, 25 miles from New Delhi. She was born with the condition known as craniofacial duplication.
Reading a USA Today article on her birth, this particular portion made a big impact on me:
“A baby with two faces — two noses, two pairs of lips and two pairs of eyes — was born in a northern Indian village, where she is doing well and is being worshipped as the reincarnation of a Hindu goddess. Hundreds of pilgrims have visited Lali, the 1-month-old baby, and her impoverished parents to touch her feet out of respect and receive blessings.”
I couldn’t help but think to myself, how different things would be had she been born here in Canada or the United States. Chances are, the first thought would have been horror, followed by an immediate, “Who and where can we have this surgically corrected?” We who worship celebrity, perfection and a media that insists on impressing upon our own young that if their nose is less than perfect, they must fix it; if their boobs are not big enough they must inflate them… and we who choose to irrationally believe that all the “beautiful people” on magazines are actually that perfect without any help from the re-touch artist, would no doubt be traumatized to have given birth to a child with two sets of eyes, two noses and two pairs of lips.
Wouldn’t we?
Often, the condition of craniofacial duplication means serious health complications, but in Lali’s case, doctors say she is fine and everything is going well. While her parents admit it was hard to accept, they have.
The question then, is should they just love her and leave well enough alone (and possibly continue to allow others to worship her) or should they adopt a western mentality and desire or seek the chance to surgically return her to what we would consider normal?
Post a comment and tell us what you think. At fracas, newcomers are always welcome!
More Information on Craniofacial Duplication:
“Although classically considered conjoined twinning (which it resembles), this anomaly is not normally due to the fusion or incomplete separation of two embryos. Among other things, this governs the width of facial features. In excess it leads to widening of facial features and to duplication of facial structures. The greater the widening, the more of the structures are duplicated, often in a mirror image form. This has been demonstrated in the laboratory by introducing pellets of a protein into chicken embryos, resulting in chickens with duplicate beaks.”
- Definition (cont.)
- Report on Diprosopus: Medical Imaging
- Monocephalus Diprosopus – Complete Craniofacial Duplication (Caution, in this case the baby was aborted and a photo is included. Do not click if this will traumatize you to view.)
[Lali's photo credit and the rest of the USA Today article: Manan Vatsyayana, AFP/Getty Images]
