Word: arms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...name is Faida, her eyes are empty, waterless like the rest of her body, and Isabel can not find a vein to insert the intravenous tube that could save her. "The blood vessels close down as they are dying," she explains, failing to find a vein on one arm and trying the other. The girl resists: "Leave me alone." Isabel withdraws. "This one wants to die," she says, and the wound will kill her anyway...
...very happy that the arm has been returned," Wren said. "And the maiden is happy to have her arm back...
Wren said his guess is that some Harvard student organization "which smokes cigars" took the arm from the approximately century-old maiden...
Wren, who has been in charge of renovating the 111-year-old store for about two years, re-attached the arm, which holds out wooden cigars, on Tuesday and also repainted the figure, brightening up the white-faced, bluedressed maiden...
Passers-by, according to Wren, are also pleased to see the figurine restored. He said that customers have asked him constantly for the past two years what exactly happened to the arm...