Word: schreckengost
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Dates: during 1934-1934
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Twenty years ago such an anomaly was born on a scrabbly farm near Pittsburgh to a poor Pennsylvania Dutch family named Schreckengost. The Schreckengosts named the child Clara and brought her up as a girl. After Clara was 10, she ceased to grow. Her features acquired a slanting cast and she gave no physiological evidence of oncoming womanhood...
Nobody seemed more pleased at this strange outcome than Father Schreckengost. Said he: "Many a night I couldn't sleep thinking about that poor child crying because of the shape she was in. I tell you, it's a pitiful thing. She's never had any pleasure out of life...
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