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On a humid summer morning in June 1999, 36-year-old Sanju Bagat was hard at work on a farm outside

of Nagpur, a city in central India.

The sun had just risen and the air was already so hot that he found it hard to breathe.

Sanju and a group of farmhands were hard at work tending to the soybean crops.

He made his way through the field, stopping to catch his breath every few steps.

Sanju moved a lot slower than his co-workers because of his massive belly.

For the past 15 years, Sanju had struggled beneath the weight of his ever-growing stomach.

At first, when he was in his early 20s, his family had thought he was just filling out

a little, like all young men do when they become adults.

But Sanju's stomach didn't stop growing, it kept getting bigger and bigger until it

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