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“This was a monstrous act of cruelty that shattered an entire family,” L.A.

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The aboatia gives a few slow blinks before offering a monstrous yawn.

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However, his wife, the Baroness Hoover, was monstrous, rude, and condescending, and like the Earl of Maytag, she scarcely considered the Incorrigibles to be human.

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But Russian thistle is a monstrous piece of botanical grotesquerie, loathed by all.

Circumstances spiral, cruelty reasserts itself and The Creature learns — again — that humans will never see him as anything but monstrous, no matter how faithfully he tries to mirror their kindness.

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