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Date Posted: 04:43:29 01/13/03 Mon
Author: Valerie
Subject: Re: About "Consumption"
In reply to: Cindy C 's message, "About "Consumption"" on 20:01:56 01/12/03 Sun

My grandmothers mother and her stepmother both died of consumption back in the 1800's. She lost her mother to it and after her father remarried to a lovely woman she said, it took her as well. She said there was nothing they could do about it, once they'd caught it, I remember she told my mum that they just faded away, it must have been really awful for them back then.

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[> [> Re: Consumption -- Anne, 03:04:01 01/20/03 Mon

I was always a bit unclear about what 'Consumption' actually was. It sounded like a slowish wasy to go and very drawn out, which is sad. In one of the Anne of Green Gables books Ruby Gillis passes away because of it - it always makes me cry when I read about it. I have been going through my 'Anne' books and my 'Laura' books lately as it is the summer holidays and I have had time to spare.

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