[ SECRET POST #5176 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5176 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

From the POV of his daughter, Pa's a heroic pioneer. But it's pretty clear even from the highly romanticized stories that Pa sucked at homesteading and at that providing for your family thing. Hence Laura having to become a teacher at age 15 because her family needed the money.

[(Anonymous)]

What's weirder is that they needed the money to send Mary to college and to buy her an organ. Like... wtf, didn't your family almost starve? Maybe you should save that money and not buy an expensive musical instrument?

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Agree on the organ, but I thought Mary going to college for the blind was so she could learn to read Braille and live as a blind person and not for the purposes of getting a BA in English or something.

[(Anonymous)]

This is actually one of the facts that Rose Wilder Lane specifically omitted from the books: Mary went to a School for the Blind on a full scholarship. Her future niece didn't want anyone thinking the family relied on government funds for anything.

That being said, they did have to buy Mary's wardrobe and maybe even some of her school materials. But Laura was probably only contributing to what was essentially cost-of-living expense and maybe pocket money. I doubt she ever made enough to pay Mary's tuition if it hadn't been covered.

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Whatever Laura was contributing to the family income, it was enough that she felt she couldn't quit a job she hated until she got married and moved out of that house.