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Proud-Entertainment4 t1_itwv1l0 wrote

Reply to comment by kevnmartin in Poverty descriptions in old books that doesn't seem poor in today's property market by p_romer

Oh, right. Long time since I read it.

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saga_of_a_star_world t1_itxtslo wrote

When the girls exclaim about their Christmas dinner--coffee! popovers!--Hannah remarks how she remembers when they had coffee every day.

And then there's Meg, getting a job watching children, while Jo sells her stories to help the family out.

It's there--just as there is a difference between the position of the Hummels and the Marches, there's a distance between the Marches and Laurie.

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