friendship, escape, nurse, exploitation, biography, based on true story, hospital, black and white, social injustice, physical abuse, curiosity, disability, sideshow, dying young, emotional vulnerability, disfigurement, birth defect, deformed, circus freak, discrimination, shame, physical disability, humanity, physical deformity, freak show, freak, abuse, 19th century, dignity, social isolation, human monster, emotion, 1800s, anxiety, social integration, introspection, psychological healing, london, 1880s,