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leguin · 17 days ago

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i suspect that there's more to the faked death situation than anyone remembers/is willing to share at this point - he might've been abusive or an alcoholic etc. but my great-aunt (the only one still alive who remembers this) said she was really amazed at how normal it seemed at the time that a man would permanently disappear to try and keep his family from being ashamed of/shamed by his financial failure, and how bizarre and pointless it seemed to her now that she was in her 80s. lot of shifting cultural and economic expectations...but also idk. at some point people just still being in your life probably starts to seem more valuable than anything else.

#and how much of that was like. specific '2nd generation german immigrants who had previously been very successful and now it's the 1930s'#not related to this really but her daughter/my cousin died of an accidental fentanyl overdose last year #right before someone else i knew died the same way #and it's strange and sad and surreal to know that 60 years from now they're going to be part of the same kind of history #things that happened to a lot of people a long time ago that (i hope) will seem very removed in many ways to the 20 year olds of the 2080s #but that at the time were just. life. people who were in your life and then for horribly mundane reasons were gone.

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