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...Ontario, Canada. Born in 1934 during the depths of the Depression, the five girls were seen by the Canadian government as a welcome tonic for a beleaguered public. By an act of Ontario's parliament, they were taken from their parents and exhibited behind glass at a facility christened Quintland. At one point they drew more tourists than Niagara Falls...
After years of litigation, the parents regained custody, but homelife turned out to be as bleak as life in Quintland, with allegations of sexual abuse at the hands of a remote father. Two of the girls died young--one of a seizure, one of a stroke; the others have survived but remain embittered and have petitioned for compensation for their mistreatment. They emerged from seclusion last week to offer advice to the McCaugheys (see open letter...
...time soon. And according to the surviving members of the previous most famous multiple birth in the world, media attention is more likely to be a curse than a blessing. In an open letter to TIME, three of the Dionne quintuplets ? whom the Canadian state put on display in "Quintland" for tourists back in the Depression-ridden ?30s ? warn of the potential freak show to come. "To those who would seek to exploit the growing fame of these children," they write, "we say beware...
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