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There are many versions of the story. Some claim her father went to get help when her mother was giving birth. Earliest accounts make no mention of that version. Other versions claim the father was out trapping and returned to find his wife ill and daughter frozen. In some versions, the baby died, in
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and when Dr. McPherson and his wife left
Labrador later that year, they took her with them, first to Boston and then to Mexico. Kirkina returned to New York for schooling for two years and then returned to the McPhersons in Mexico. After four years in Mexico, she returned to
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Hospital, where she remained for two years. A letter dated 9 November 1902 from
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Jeffries (another source calls the father Emo Jeffery), an Inuit-Scots trapper and his wife. As a toddler, her legs were frozen and amputated below the knee by her father with an axe. Later, she was taken to the
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Mucko lived in
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701:Fitzgerald, Jack; Thomas, Jocelyne (2005).
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