So she was very resentfull and said this is ridiculous and i have to pay them a fortune and it was outf of the money they were being paid. How did abigail handle the sons alcohol problem . She didnt talk about it. Two things you didnt talk about and one was alcoholism. Her brother died from alcoholism and when her son was ill all they said was he was a problem. It was clear he was dying. She dealt better than john. John said i will have nothing to do with him. But i found a wonderful letter from john to their youngest son after charles had died saying my loosing the presidency is nothing. I would never have been president and i would have given my life itself for charles to live. So you know how deep the afffection was but it was a horrible thing. And if anyone coughed, you just ignored it. If they sneezed, it was all right. But if you coughed it might mean you had tb. So you would never mention, particularly in a letter, someone was coughing. You might say they have a fever and down t
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