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Listen to our old folks stories. JUST LISTEN to how she uses language, such an eloquent speaker.

We have lost much.

Listen to our old folks stories. JUST LISTEN to how she uses language, such an eloquent speaker. We have lost much.

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She reminds me of my Great Grandma. Even sounds similar though Great Grandma's voice was pitched a bit higher. My Grandpa told me he had to stay in his room while his mom washed his only pants. One day a lady from the church came to visit and finding there was no food at all in the house returned shortly with a large bag of butcher's beef bones to make bone soup for Grandpa and his brothers.

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My father claims that my great grandmother was better educated in a public single room schoolhouse at grade 12 than our modern 6 year PHD graduates. This would have been around 1900. A bit of an exaggeration I’m sure, but there is probably a lot of truth to it. Her diary has the eloquence that you mention.

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My grandfathers penmanship was PURE ART. Even as a tyke I remember trying to learn to write and looking at his log books and his writing was beautiful to me even then.

We have more access to information and network effects allow us to build tremendous technology. But, our schools are failing our kids. And us.

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That was indeed a sad story. I've no doubt that the late journalist Netty Mitchell is a nice woman, but experience has taught me that nice people are generally duplicitous and insincere. She claims the woman in her story couldn't have known the impact of the choice she had made as a girl to lay with the mill worker, yet the girls actions implies the opposite. She knew what she'd done, but Netty Mitchell reveals the duplicity of journalists by lying for the sake of her narrative.

Tolerance is not a Christian virtue, but patience is.

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You make a good point. But.

That was a 14 year old child.

THE MOMENT that I heard the old lady say the parents allowed the daughter to go away and work and send money back I already knew the rest of the story. 14 year old children cannot make choices about engaging in relationships or having children of their own. As far as I am concerned, the child was raped.

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While I've no doubt 19nth century American country folk would rationalize it as proper to shun a lonely woman for having had a child out of wedlock and later entering into an incestuous marriage with that child. She was shunned because for nearly two decades she lied by omission and didn't confess her actions until they'd been discovered. If she'd been raped, I strongly suspect the man responsible would've been promptly lynched or found himself in a chapel with a rifle to his back. However, the reality of the matter is that for nearly two decades she kept it secret, never made penance, and that's why they shunned her. They had no confidence that she could be trusted anymore if she'd refused to repent her sins and it explains why they didn't forgive her until her death.

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Just give a tldw nigger

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Watch the video, dipshit.

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Rural Maine was poverty stricken. A 13 year old girl left to make money at a cotton factory, but the boss slept with her. She had an illegitimate child and was persuaded to give it to a childless couple who paid hey expenses to go back home at the earliest opportunity

She shunned all men and grew to be an old maid (30 years old and unwed). A young man came to build highways and they feel in love and got married. When the inlaws came to visit, they were horrified to see that she was his mother.

Their marriage was annulled and the whole town knew she had an illegitimate child. She was shunned by the whole town and banned from visiting her family. She wasn't even allowed to see her mom in the casket. Alone she made money from small projects for a meager living and grew her own food.

After one particularly bad winter, someone came to see her and she was lying on the floor starving to death. She didn't live to see a doctor.

At her funeral her sister put a hand on her body and said "finally she has paid for her sins".