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Jeffrey Streeter's avatar

This is so rich in content, it feels like the the outine of a novel (or series of them). Thank you for explaining the baffling etiquette so clearly. I was puzzled by the reference to "knots" intially.

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Betty Carlson's avatar

10 pregnancies in as many years...the mind boggles, but this type of situation of course did not end with that era. There were 15 children in my maternal great-grandmother's family and 17 (!) in my paternal grandfather's.

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