His daughter Evan catalogued the bounty with a mixture of curiosity and dread. What would the next box hold? she wondered. A dinosaur egg? Nazi cyanide? Abraham Lincoln's bloodstained shirt?
One can only imagine the look on her face when she discovered a severed penis in a jar. Her brother suggested they throw it out, proving he's never heard of eBay. But then they remembered their father's stories, and realized what they'd found:
A penis that may have belonged to Napoleon Bonaparte.
Dr. Lattimer supposedly bought the item at a Paris auction for $3,000 in 1977. His daughter believes its provenance is ironclad, traceable to the surgeon who performed Napoleon's autopsy. X-rays have determined that it is a human penis, but the French government won't give up a sample of Napoleon's DNA to compare.
Ms. Lattimer plans to sell the item at auction later this year for at least $100,000. Trust this intrepid reporter to be there with a healthy skepticism and measuring tape.

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