A Legend In His Own Minefield

A Legend In His Own Minefield

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A Legend In His Own Minefield
A Legend In His Own Minefield
Viryl Studd - The Early and Middle Years

Viryl Studd - The Early and Middle Years

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John Mendelssohn
Feb 18, 2015
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A Legend In His Own Minefield
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Viryl Studd - The Early and Middle Years
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One often hears that childbirth is so rapturous an experience that new mothers forget the physical agony involved almost before they get home from the hospital, but that wasn’t true of Viryl Studd’s mother, who would never forgive for having been unusually large. His father Douglas, who’d had every bone in his face broken multiple times over the course …

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