• By Anna N.
    Oct 30, 2009 5:40 PM 6,334
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    Hairy Girls Were "Welcomed In The Courts Of Europe"

    The Marvelous Hairy Girls tells the story of 16th-century sisters with hypertrichosis universalis — hair all over their bodies. They weren't ridiculed — because all women were considered a little bit "monstrous." [Echidne of the Snakes]


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