Her eyes were wide, dark and beautiful — and slowly going blind.
To enlarge their pupils, Victorian women dripped deadly nightshade into their eyes. It blurred their sight and, in time, stole it. The plant even bore their name for it: belladonna, “beautiful woman.”
Send this to someone who’d never believe what beauty once cost.
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