the usual life of a girl her age. Everyday, thousands of people
gather to the front of her family's house to get a chance of
seeing and possibly touching the young girl, a gesture which
both buddhists and hindu pilgrims seem to perceive as a
garantee of good fortune.
According to the country's top medical expert, Dr Ping Lao,
the young girl suffers a very rare syndrome known as the
Serpentosis Malianorcis or Jing Jing's disease, which gives
her lower body a distinct reptilian form and aspect. Only a
handful of such cases have been recorded throughout history,
so the scientific knowledge accumulated about the pathology
is rather limited and there is no cure in sight at the moment.
The Fay family have welcomed the situation brought by Mai
Li's situation with a mix of anguish and excitement, as the
never ending lines of tourists and pilgrims have brought the
badly impoverished family some substantial revenues and
given them an important raise in their social status but cost
them there privacy and intimacy.
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