Joseph Merrick Quote

I went to school like other children until I was about 11 or 12 years of age, when the greatest misfortune of my life occurred, namely — the death of my mother, peace to her, she was a good mother to me; after she died my father broke up his home and went to lodgings; unfortunately for me he married his landlady; henceforth I never had one moment's comfort, she having children of her own, and I not being so handsome as they, together with my deformity, she was the means of making my life a perfect misery; lame and deformed as I was, I ran, or rather walked away from home two or three times, but suppose father had some spark of parental feeling left, so he induced me to return home again.


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I went to school like other children until I was about 11 or 12 years of age, when the greatest misfortune of my life occurred, namely — the death...

I went to school like other children until I was about 11 or 12 years of age, when the greatest misfortune of my life occurred, namely — the death...

I went to school like other children until I was about 11 or 12 years of age, when the greatest misfortune of my life occurred, namely — the death...

I went to school like other children until I was about 11 or 12 years of age, when the greatest misfortune of my life occurred, namely — the death...