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ANvI ZANZARUKIA

I can’t bend any further. I know!
This yoga class is so I feel like
much tougher than I my bones will
thought. break.

Anvi was born to Avani
How and Vijay Zanzarukia in
do you do it, Surat. But just a few
Ha ha ha...I
Shalini Miss? may be flexible but days after her birth -
Your bones
not as flexible as
are definitely Anvi Zanzarukia, WHO OUR BABY IS
made of IS KNOWN AS THE HER CRYING A LOT. SHE
rubber! STORY HAS SEEMS TO BE UNWELL.
RUBBER GIRL EVEN BEEN We have to get her
OF INDIA.
ON MANN KI checked by the
BAAT! paediatrician.

THE DOCTOR DID NOT HAVE VERY GOOD NEWS.
sob…
sob.
Anvi has Down’s
syndrome*, with 75
percent intellectual
disability. She also
has a congenital
heart defect^.
HOWEVER, WITH THE
RIGHT SUPPORT SHE
CAN LIVE A FAIRLY
NORMAL LIFE.

When Anvi was just four months old, she had to undergo an open heart surgery.
*a genetic disorder that causes developmental ^problems with the heart’s structure
and intellectual delays. that exist since birth