Very unusual story of a handicapped girl growing up in rural Mississippi through the depression era. Her poor little body is deformed in her “bottom” area so badly that she can not be in public without embarrassing accidents, ever, in her whole life. Living mostly isolated, in a dysfunctional family, she tried school once but wouldn’t continue. She worked hard on the family farm, enjoying the woods and fields but she has to be very careful whenever needing to be in public, even to the point of not eating or drinking the day or two before she would be in her village. Romance that we take for granted, she can not. The story goes from her birth until she was an older woman. Rather a sad story, but she did the best she could. I would like to think that if she had been born a century later surgery could have helped her. 8 out of 10.
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