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1. Abraham Lincoln: According to Michael Burlingame, a history professor at Connecticut College and the author of "The Inner World of Abraham Lincoln", Mary Todd used to beat the hell out of Abe Lincoln. Apparently, one time, Abe didn't put enough wood on a fire, so Mary Todd hit him with a log. Another time, Abe didn't buy the right kind of meat for breakfast, so Mary Todd smacked him in the face and drew blood. By all reports, he hated his marriage; in 1864, he pardoned a Union soldier who abandoned the Army to marry his childhood sweetheart... and, while signing the pardon, Lincoln said, "I want to punish the young man. Probably in less than a year, he'll wish I had withheld the pardon.
2. Bobby Brown: Everyone thinks Bobby Brown used to hit Whitney Houston... but, according to Whitney herself, it was the opposite. In an interview with the AP 10 years ago, Whitney said, "Contrary to belief, I do the hitting, he doesn't. He has never put his hands on me. We are crazy for one another. I mean crazy in love, love, love, love, love. When we're fighting, it's like that's love for us. We're fighting for our love." Well, that DOES kind of sound like the greatest love of all. (Even better than learning to love yourself... the greatest love of all is learning to beat your husband because he got too handy during the filming of the "Humpin' Around" video.)
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