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Old 08-03-2004, 06:42 PM
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Trivia for the day (since you mention her beauty mark):


Supposedly, a beauty mark in the 1700s was a euphemism for a syphilis lesion. The gentry began drawing them on to make their debauchery (or the results thereof) fashionable.
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