Happy birthday, Mother of Frankenstein

i-bd1bed883f8fde6c9f93bb590fa32f55-Mary Shelley.jpgMary Wollstonecraft Shelley was born on August 30th, 1797. She is very old now, but a team of mad scientists is working on resurrecting her with jolts of electricity.

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