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IT’S NOTHING TO BE ASHAMED OF

SHE was born with two thumbs on her left hand but it didn’t really affect her life much– she simply had the extra one removed when she was three and carried on with her life.

She still keeps that thumb, complete with its nail, in a small plastic container, Cheryl-Ann Mostert says. She calls it “my lion” because when she was little it reminded her of the claw on Simba’s paw in The Lion King.

But the extra digit wasn’t the only additional body part she was born with. When she was

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