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A motherly, average-sized woman lovingly cuddling her nine-year old child in her semi-rural compound does not raise anybody’s eyebrows. Except when the ‘child’ is a 30-foot python coiling around her, feeling her all over to get the motherly warmth that it has apparently been used to for all of its life. Her name is Nalongo, which is a title given to a mother of twins in her culture. The brown skinned Nalongo says her husband died when she was heavily pregnant in December 2007 and soon after she delivered twins, the first was a girl who is now in boarding school, but the second one could not be sent to the same school or any school for that matter, having been born in a snake’s body. And now at nine years, the ‘child’ is a full grown python, still staying at home with mom. Out as her story became public recently, she lamented her new predicament as she cuddled her python child. She got some temporary reprieve when she explained to the zoologists that she is the only one who knows how to feed and care for her ‘child’.