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Thank you for posting this. My favorite story of Emily Bronte has always been the one where she was bitten by a dog, and then proceeded to calmly cauterize her

by fern12 10y ago

Thank you for posting this. My favorite story of Emily Bronte has always been the one where she was bitten by a dog, and then proceeded to calmly cauterize her own wound with a hot iron poker. As a fellow middle child who was also overshadowed by an older sister, I've always admired her.

Chris2048 10y ago
Wouldn't that leave terrible scarring?
- fern12 10y ago
  I imagine so. It's ironic, because in a flash, she did an ultimate act of self-preservation by cauterizing her wound, yet she was also anorexic, which I think is anything but self-preservation.