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Old Pinhead
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ISBN10: 1456478826
ISBN13: 9781456478827
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Feb 4 2011
Pages: 358
Weight: 1.16
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781456478827
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Feb 4 2011
Pages: 358
Weight: 1.16
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
If you were born with retardation or a deformity in the 19th century and early part of the 20th century, you ended up either as the sideshow in a circus or in a state institution which functioned as either a prison, work camp or warehouse, depending upon the degree of your developmental disability. Old Pinhead is the story of a young man born with moderate microcephalia whose mother would not commit him to an institution at the cost of her marriage. After her death he was committed to a place called The Cascade Custodial School For the Retarded. This is the chronicle of his five year plan and efforts to escape from the institution and live life as a free man.
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