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Artwork by Stella Duren

Penelope

This was the first doll I ever made, but I still think she looks great!

Penelope was born with a pigs’ nose and a pigs’ cloven feet. Her parents were horrified by their daughter, thinking she was a demon sent to them by the devil. So Penelope travelled through orphanages and foster systems most of her childhood, until she was fourteen, when she was finally adopted…. By an old woman with a pigs’ nose and pigs’ cloven feet. The old woman taught her that her birth was not a curse, but a blessing, and that her oddities could be used to do extraordinary things.

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