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"Lizzie Borden took an axe/She gave her mother forty whacks/When she saw what she had done/She gave her father forty-one"

You may have heard this playground rhyme before, but did you know that it was inspired by the true tale of the infamous murderess, ​Lizzie Borden? Lizzie, in a fit of fury, is said to have ruthlessly and mercilessly killed her parents with an axe. But how much of the ​playground rhyme – and the echoes through time surrounding Lizzie’s story – are true? Today I am telling you the true story of Lizzie ​Borden.

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