Chadakin
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I feel so bad for this guy. Joseph Merrick aka the Elephant Man was born with a deformity that caused people to be appalled by his appearance. His own mother abandoned him when he was a child and his father and stepmother rejected him because of his looks, so he had to live with his uncle. He even had surgery but it didn't fix him. He approach a traveling circus to get a job to support himself and joined to be exhibited across England and Europe to be laughed at and ridiculed by the public. One of his road managers even robbed him and left him for dead in Belgium, but he eventually found his way back to London. His last years of his life he spent at a hospital in London where he met his only friend, the doctor who would look after him.
No girl was ever interested in him. His doctor said that his hope was to go to live at an institution for the blind, where he might meet a woman who could not see his deformities. His doctor had arranged for "a young and pretty widow" visit Merrick since he had never had a female be nice to him. She agreed but the meeting was short, as Merrick quickly became overcome with emotion. He later told the doctor that she had been the first woman ever to smile at him, and the first to shake his hand. Due to his deformity, he could only sleep upright and tried once to sleep laying down like everyone else, this resulted in him choking to death at age 27. Brutal.
To this day his skeleton remains on display in a London hospital for medical students and doctors to look at. This guy was a devout Christian and they didn't even give him a proper burial.
No girl was ever interested in him. His doctor said that his hope was to go to live at an institution for the blind, where he might meet a woman who could not see his deformities. His doctor had arranged for "a young and pretty widow" visit Merrick since he had never had a female be nice to him. She agreed but the meeting was short, as Merrick quickly became overcome with emotion. He later told the doctor that she had been the first woman ever to smile at him, and the first to shake his hand. Due to his deformity, he could only sleep upright and tried once to sleep laying down like everyone else, this resulted in him choking to death at age 27. Brutal.
To this day his skeleton remains on display in a London hospital for medical students and doctors to look at. This guy was a devout Christian and they didn't even give him a proper burial.
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