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Originally posted by ltl/fb
Uh, and now that I'm looking at it, it was banned quite a bit before I was even a twinkle in my parents' eyes. Which makes me wonder what the cause of the birth defects of a girl I went to high school was -- I had always thought it was thalidomide, but she was way too young if it was banned in the 60s.
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I went to school with a girl that I thought was a victim of Thalidomide also--maybe I was wrong. She was born with skin over all of her face (as in, she had eyes, but they were buried in her face and had to be dug out) and had only two holes for her nose and a slit for her mouth. Poor girl had surgery seemingly every week. By the time I last saw her in maybe eighth grade she was approaching looking human. Really sad. People were mean to her for a few years before everybody just realized they were being, well, mean.
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