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Shiloh Pepin, a girl who was born with a very rare condition called sirenomeila or ‘mermaid syndrome’ died at a hospital in Maine at the age of 10 after being in the hospital since last week.

Shiloh came down with a cold in the beginning of October that turned in pneumonia.

On October 10, she was taken to the hospital for treatment and placed on antibiotics and a ventilator.

Pepin proved predictions the of doctors wrong by living as long as she did.

She was born without genital organs or a lower colon and only one part of a kidney was working. Doctors believed she would only live a few hours, maybe even a few days. She defeated these old by living an entire decade.

There have been children survive this condition with the surgery to separate their legs, but Shiloh’s circulatory system made surgery very challenging.

Shiloh lived every day with great zest; her quality of life was good.

It did not matter to her what she was doing, a big event or staying at home with her dad.

She was only one in a handful of people in history to live longer than a year with her condition.