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Well, before you start complaining about the name of the thread, I'll admit that the name to designate the group of people suffering from growth inhibiting diseases and conditions in a short and easy term is difficult. Dwarves are legendary creatures in Norse mythology who lives in mines under the mountains and produces magic jewelry, and is thus just categorically wrong, midgets brings to mind 19th century freak shows and it's not like we call cancer patients "elephant men" in polite conversation, and little people... what is that term if anything but the very definition of belittling? So yeah, dwarf is only here as it seems to me the least derogatory term used to describe these ladies and gentlemen.

Your challenge is, with a point of divergence no later than the year 1900, have a dwarf elected President of the United States. Bonus points if the dwarf is of a racial minority and/or a woman.
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