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If you didn't laugh you'd cry Written by Mary Ellen (6/26/2006 12:23 a.m.) in consequence of the missive, Thievery, penned by Cheryl

Perhaps this meanness does come from an attraction to inappropriate themes that teenagers have had from time immemorial as others have mentioned in this thread.

I think it is also a method which brings into stark relief Laura's true nature. I was just rereading the section where she mentions the death of her parents in Letter the 10th. She calls their deaths a 'trifling circumstance'. But when she goes on to say that they left her no inheritance, that is 'the Depravity of the World'!

That line in JA's letters about the dead child also brings me up short. We can't ever know the whole story about it. But I like to think that life was a lot harder in her day, death was quicker and more common than it is now. And it happened at home, not in some distant hospital. My mom just got married at the age of 58, but in JA's time a woman of 55, like Laura of L&F, was comically past the age of flirtation. "A very old lady, almost past every thing but tea and quadrille."

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Egotistical Laura Alana (6/19/2006 2:56 p.m.)

My first too... Moni (6/20/2006 6:31 a.m.)
Absolutely MaryAnn K. (6/20/2006 3:01 a.m.)
She thinks quite highly of herself Cheryl (6/19/2006 4:49 p.m.)
- She has a different standards too Golda (6/20/2006 3:02 a.m.)
  - Thievery Cheryl (6/20/2006 11:55 a.m.)
    - If you didn't laugh you'd cry Mary Ellen (6/26/2006 12:23 a.m.)
    - I think it's mocking meanness Tracy W (6/20/2006 11:41 p.m.)
    - What to make of it Maisy (6/20/2006 12:34 p.m.)
      - I agree with Cheryl… Robbin (6/20/2006 5:15 p.m.)
      - The reason could be 'wrath' hidden behind...   Reeba (6/20/2006 4:38 p.m.)
        
        What is considered the *literary fashion* of today?   Alana (6/22/2006 11:27 a.m.)
        
        Oops! That ought to be "afraid"!nfm.   Alana (6/22/2006 11:28 a.m.)
      - And ruthless Cheryl (6/20/2006 1:02 p.m.)
I noticed that too. Emmeline (6/19/2006 4:21 p.m.)

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