This is

this is exactly right.

This story contains adult content and language.

Listener discretion is advised. My daughter and I are on

my daughter and I are on Chestnut Street in uptown New Orleans in front of the large Victorian

house that was the Crawford family home in the early 1900s. So this is the house where three out of four people died. So Mary Agnes lived here and her parents lived here along with Gertrude and Annie and you can see

it's a pretty big historical house.

Skiving little women.

What do you mean?

The book.

It feels like little women.

Why?

Because they all live together, a bunch of sisters and a mom, and one of them dies.

Emma and Walter Crawford had lived here for almost 20 years before two tragedies happened.

First, one of their five daughters Mary Agnes died in late June of 1910.

Then Emma's husband Walter died less than three weeks later.

And now, just about two weeks after his death,

the matriarch of the family was dying. It was late Thursday night on July 28th.

Emma was drifting in and out of consciousness.

She showed the same symptoms as her husband,

stomach pains, aching, and just misery.

As they had before, the family hovered over her.

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