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Once upon a time, actually not that many years ago, there was a girl who was born with only two arms and
two legs. Can you imagine that? Count how many you have. Eight! That’s right. Four arms and four legs.

Now, there have been a few children born with only four arms and three legs. Or four legs and three arms.
And there was one child born with only three of each, for a total of six, but what would it be like having only
two arms and two legs! That’s hard to imagine.

If you fold two legs underneath yourself and hide two arms behind your back, you can feel what it might be
like. Very odd. And how would you do all the things you need to do with only two arms and two legs. It’d be
hard to even walk!

When the baby was born, the doctor told the parents the bad news. That their new baby daughter only had
two arms and two legs. Though they were sad, they decided to love their new daughter anyway. And they
named her Quarta, meaning ‘four.’

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Growing up, Quarta had very few friends. This was possibly since her parents were afraid she’d get hurt or
struggle too much to keep up, because she had only half as many arms and legs as the other children.

When she was five, Quarta went to school like the other children. She did well in classes, better than most of
the other children, but she struggled to fit in socially, that is, she had almost no friends. And, as far as sports
went, this was the biggest problem.

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