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I was born into a life of ease in Brattleboro, Verest child of Dr Donald and Martha Farenthold, but my life wasn’t trouble free Father was a drunk and not a jolly one, though no one in town knew the shadoe lived under

A respectable member of the community, Dr Farenthold was sober at his ot ho chair, open a medical journal, and uncork the bottle By nine he was plastered and we lived in fear that soht and ould be exposed

In the early days, Mother tried to divert hierent Sometimes he’d even bash her around To stay away froanizations, the Children’s Home Society, the Red Cross, and the Lutheran Woot uterine cancerIronic, a doctor’s wife dying of a treatable disease She could have had a hysterectomy if they’d found it in ti

Our ho Victorian with a white picket fence around the lush lawn, not tenbut peaceful, but after Mother died, it was a tomb

For a few years, we had a maid and a cook, but eventually Father ran them off, and my brothers and I had to fend for ourselves Darwin and Williae just down the road, left for Harvard Medical School as soon as they could That left Father and the house to me

I was a pale child, bookish and withdrawn In school, even if I knew the answer, I was hesitant to raise h in an old-fashioned way, I didn’t date, didn’t participate in sports or girls’ clubs, just got all As and went ho so else self-destructive

As soon as I was seventeen, just like o to university ued that it would secure irl like you! You’ll get hooked before you get your degree It’s a waste of lass of araduated fro diploma in May of ’14 and didn’t marry for another sixphysician, Dr David Myers, who our honeymoon in New York, father sobered up for a while We moved into a new Sears Roebuck Craftsman house that he had built for us, and by September, David had set up a practice

Everyone expected us to conceive right away, but ere having too much fun We canoed the backwaters of the Connecticut River and danced in the ballroom of the Copley in Boston, but by late 1915 the party was over

War in Europe was on everyone’sthe ed hi What did I know of the horrors of combat? My brothers were already in Spain, and I would have joined too, only I was a girl

Within the ned with the Canadian Ar the saether, alked the banks of the Connecticut, as the full ht The June air ss I enty-three He enty-eight, and we had our whole life before us

"You are so lovely," David tolda shock of his thick black hair back from his forehead "Always stay this way, so beautiful with hed "I’ll be old someday Will you still love me?"

"Always, but you’ll never be old Not to me I’ll always see you like this"