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| shy |
Posted - 04 June 2004 : 01:12:32 AM
Lucia Zarate was the smallest woman ever recorded. At her birth in 1864 in Mexico, she weighed only eight ounces and was seven inches long. By adulthood she was less than 50 cm tall and weighed less than 2.26 kg, less than a cat.
Unlike dwarves, she was normal in every other way, and was described as bright and animated company. She first came to the US at twelve years old and was one of the highest-paid midgets of all time. She made twenty dollars an hour.
Lucia tragically died in 1890 at 26 from cold when the train she was on became stalled in the Rocky Mountains during a heavy snowstorm.
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| emeslovesheppy |
Posted - 17 February 2006 : 3:44:03 PM
Hi Everyone,
Here is a picture of Lucia Zarate that i found! Sorry that it isn't a better one. 
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| Jamie Cook |
Posted - 30 June 2004 : 12:15:46 PM
Was there no one else on the train that could have put her in their pocket to keep her warm if she was so small?
Mary Ann Cotton, She is dead and she is rotten, She lies in her bead, with her eyes wide open, sing, sing, oh, what can I sing, Mary Ann Cotton is tied up with a string. Where, where? Up in the air. Sellin' black pudddens a penny a pair.
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| Iceheart |
Posted - 04 June 2004 : 10:32:25 AM
How did her mother know when she was going to give birth?
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Heaven bent to take my hand, and lead me thru the fire.
Be the long awaited answer, to a long and painful fight.
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