"Brains or Baby?” asked Mama McDonald, as she held a rather large gun in the face of her daughter’s would-be husband in 1881. Thinking he needed his brains more than he needed “Baby,” the man unlocked Baby from the place he had hidden her for safekeeping and returned her to her mama. Baby’s would-be husband lamented to the local newspaper a few days later. Picturing himself as her rescuer, he maintained she was ill-treated by her family, who kept her illiterate. Baby had met him
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