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Surgeon Lara Ribeiro Parenti, second left, holds a surgical instrument during the surgery of Caroline Erganian at Bichat Hospital, AP-HP, in Paris, Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2020. Erganian, 58, hopes to shed more than a third of her weight as a result of having a large part of her stomach cut out and be free of knee and back pain — and of her cane. She prayed in the final weeks that her phone wouldn't ring with news of another delay.  (AP Photo/Francois Mori)

Surgeon Lara Ribeiro Parenti, second left, holds a surgical instrument during the surgery of Caroline Erganian at Bichat Hospital, AP-HP, in Paris, Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2020. Erganian, 58, hopes to shed more than a third of her weight as a result of having a large part of her stomach cut out and be free of knee and back pain — and of her cane. She prayed in the final weeks that her phone wouldn't ring with news of another delay. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)

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