![]() ![]() But the nub grew relentlessly, larger and larger, until it was as thick and dark as a tree branch. ![]() At first, the old woman hadn't known what to make of the strange brown nub that appeared like an ashy smudge in the center of her head, but she knew to hide it from view, starting a decade-long habit of avoiding eye contact. It was the face of Madame Dimanche, the French washerwoman who grew a large, brown horn from the center of her forehead. With the last of his money, he purchased a wax model from a shop that specialized in reproductions for doctors. He had reinvented himself as Thomas Dent Mütterwith a perfectly European umlaut over the u. He was twenty-one years old and felt healthier than he ever had in his entire life. Mutter loved his time in Paris, but his desire to return to Philadelphia was even stronger. ![]()
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