Heavy Load

'Elephant Man' a little too ambitious

by David Templeton

John Merrick, a sensitive soul with a poetic nature, was born into poverty in Victorian London, doomed to exist in a body so wracked and deformed that he spent his first 21 years in workhouses and freak shows. Widely known as the…

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