The Guiness World Record holding tallest woman died yesterday in an Indianapolis nursing home. Sandy Allen was 7-foot-9. Which is, by the way, very freaking tall. She used her height to teach school children about difference.
As you can imagine being the World's Tallest Woman was a hard road to travel even if her strides were twice as long as yours.
She wrote to Guinness World Records in 1974, saying she would like to get to know someone her own height.
"It is needless to say my social life is practically nil and perhaps the publicity from your book may brighten my life," she wrote. In this video Sandy's on the job looking dashing, but confesses she's never had a date in her life.
Here's a video of Sandy Allen on the job some years back referring to her "nil" social life.