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Originally Posted by pwd72s

Indeed, it's quite a story. Reading about Cowhurst, I felt sorry for him. Just a damned sad tale.

I feel like this is never a good start to a young life.

His mother was a schoolteacher and his father worked in the Indian railways. During her pregnancy, his mother had longed for a daughter, and Crowhurst was dressed as a girl until the age of seven.

A parent that would do that seems a bit unhinged, and doing that to a child seems unlikely to not have an impact.