Too All the Girls I've Kissed Before

This weeks issue of New Scientist Magazine has an article that fascinated the pants off of me. The story is of a girl I, along with millions of people around the world, have locked lips with. The story goes that at the end of the 19th century, many people of lost hope committed suicide by jumping in the Seine River in France. The authorities would drag the dead bodies out and display the unidentified bodies to the public in the hopes that someone would be able to identify them. Well, Anne was one of jumpers and as it turns out her face was cast as a plaster mask and strangely enough circulated around France at the turn of the century as a sort of pop art piece. This inspired many artist and poets to imagine what her life must have been like and write about it. Long story short, when the guys that made CPR dolls needed a mold that wasn't to sexy but beautiful, they choose Anne. So, now you know that the CPR mannequin is the image of a woman who cast herself off a bridge over one hundred years ago.