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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I suspect they had a x related genetic disorder.  Ma, Laura and I think Rose all had still born sons or ones who died in infancy.  Not having sons definitely had a negative impact on their financial condition.  Plus Pa’s really obvious adhd and then a string of bad luck with weather.

I think leaving out the particularly depressing parts was absolutely a common thing for almost all people born before maybe 1950.  How many of you have grandparents that suffered through the Great Depression or survived/fled the holocaust and how much did they talk about the really awful stuff, versus talking about the happy memories, or even telling the “it was tough but we banded together” type stories?  Or grandparents who lost a young child and never told the surviving children about it?  My grandmother was raised by a woman who lost almost all her family in the Irish famine and probably spent most of her childhood starving (and possibly in a work home) but never said word one about that to her grandchildren.  She talked about the herbs and flowers they had, the language, etc etc.  No one taught the Irish famine in school back then so my grandmother didn’t even know to ask her grandmother to talk about it.  The view was that it didn’t help anybody to relive all the worst memories.

But even with that said, the books are pretty horrific.  When her dad left to go find work and they didn’t hear from him for months and months and probably thought he had died and they’d never know how/when/where, and he almost froze to death/starved getting back to them…. [b]Or the story where they all had. Cholera or whatever and were dying in their beds all too weak to stand and get water until a doctor just happened to be passing by and stopped in their cabin[/b]?  That’s insane.

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It was malaria.
The Dr. wasn't a random passerby. He was a black man and a Dr. to the local Indians. He knew families in the area were getting sick from malaria and made his rounds on the frontier properties.
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