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Violetta, the Armless and Legless Venus by Trav S.D.

In 1929, the French surrealist journal Variétés published photos of Violetta  as though she were a living, breathing work of surrealistic art — which, if you think about it, she was. Born Aloisia Wagner in 1907 in Bremen-Hemeligen, Germany, the woman who came to be known as Violetta the Trunk Woman came into the world without [...]

SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 04:50AM on May 9, 2013

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