Dear Sir, - As many of your readers are so interested in the doings of one-legged girls, f think perhaps this letter may be of interest to them.
I lost my right leg, about 6 inches from the hip, when I was 21, as the result of a motor accident. Although I was fitted with an artificial leg soon after the amputation, I never wear it, but use a pair of crutches - and more often than not, a single crutch.
When getting about the house I seldom use a crutch at all, but just hop on my one leg - an art at which I have become quite proficient. Several of the letters that have appeared in your paper lately have discussed whether a girl who has one leg only has an added attraction in the eye is of the eyes of the male sex. AS to that I cannot say, but I do not know that my husband says he would rather have me with one leg than any two-legged girl. It was after I had lost my leg that I met him.
Some of your readers may have seen a picture taken of a friend and myself which appeared in one of the illustrated newspapers not long ago. This friend, who, like myself, has only one leg she has the left leg missing - and f make a practice, as we both wear the same size of shoes, of purchasing a pair of shoes between us, the right one for her and the left one for me.
May I conclude by saying that I find no difficulty in doing anything I want to as the result of having had my leg amputated, and I just enjoy life to the full. I hope that some, if not all, of the photos of myself which I am enclosing will be suitable for publication.
Yours truly,
Yours truly,
Dorree.