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   Scott Dorsey to Scott Lurndal   
   Re: 19% of U.S. adult citizens account f   
   25 Jan 26 10:46:50   
   
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   From: kludge@panix.com   
      
   Scott Lurndal  wrote:   
   >The True Melissa  writes:   
   >>Verily, in article , did   
   >>psperson@old.netcom.invalid deliver unto us this message:   
   >>> Incidentally, in the eBook series where I catch up on previous read   
   >>> authors, I found that /Farnham's Freehold/ is now available on Kindle.   
   >>   
   >>Farnham's Freehold is probably the weirdest Heinlein I ever read, though   
   >>I haven't read them all. I recall being disappointed in the handling of   
   >>Grace, the protagonist's wife.   
   >   
   >For someone who grew up in KC in the early 1900's, Grace would not   
   >have been at all unusual, sadly.   
      
   Yes, when I read Farnham's Freehold as a child, I thought it was a pretty   
   good characterization of my mother and many of her friends.  Today it may   
   not be believable but my mother would not be either.   
   --scott   
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