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    The Little Mermaid Disease

    Shiloh has sirenomelia, which means her legs were fused together before birth and she has no genitalia or uterus.

    Edith Zimmerman
    by Edith Zimmerman

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    It's an incredibly rare disease, and it's incredibly rare for someone with it to live this long, but Shiloh is rowdy, funny and sweet, and her surgeries have been successful. Now her parents are divided over whether to get her legs separated.

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