stackyFACTSBehind every great male genius is a spouse suffering through massive carpal tunnel.
Behind every great male genius is a spouse suffering through massive carpal tunnel. Leo Tolstoy had abysmal handwriting, so his wife Sophia was tasked with deciphering and copying his gargantuan masterpiece 'War and Peace.' She sat at a desk and wrote out the entire 1,400-page manuscript by hand, not once, but seven distinct times as he kept making revisions. Her reward for this agonizing labor is being mostly ignored by historians.
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