Do You Think Anne Was Happy When Her Baby Diedwhen Her Sons Went To The Warwhen One Was Killed?Poor Valancy

“Do you think Anne was happy when her baby died—when her sons went to the war—when one was killed? … Poor Valancy had 29 years of starved existence and Emily had her bitter years of alienation from Teddy.… You are probably much more cynical at nineteen than you will be at forty. I am sure there are plenty of girls and boys just as good and true as any of those in my books. I have known ever so many. Of course there are plenty of the other kind, too—always have been and always will be and just now they are not repressed as they used to be and we hear and see more of them. But the other sort must have always predominated or the world wouldn’t have gone on at all.”

— Excerpt of a 1933 letter from Lucy Maud Montgomery, replying sharply to a reader ‘that loved her books, but thought her characters were unrealistic— they were too idealistic and too faultless as people.’

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How does it fell to have predicted this meme back in 2007?

Magical. But I left out a key component - the salad.