Her name is Rosita Mabuiango, although she is known only as "the girl born in a tree". The young woman, who is celebrating her seventeenth birthday today, was interviewed by an AFP journalist and declares that she does not like this sad notoriety: "I was just born in a slightly original way."
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Despite this crazy story, Rosita has taken a long step back, has a Catholic education and now wants to focus on her studies. She's considering becoming a petrochemical engineer. A choice that is not due to chance since large gas reserves have recently been discovered in her country. In her free time, Rosita plays football with her friends.
In the end, despite her birth in extraordinary circumstances (her entourage thinks that God wanted it so), Rosita is, as she likes to say, "normal".
