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Jerome of Sandy Cove - A castaway with both legs recently amputated, and who never spoke for the rest of his life (en.wikipedia.org)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

The identification depends on how correct Jerome's rescuers were in thinking his amputations were not completely healed and so were recent. Gamby showed up across the bay four years previous and was missing his legs then.