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Mark Twain Forum <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 5 Sep 2006 15:53:09 -0400
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"Twain's daughter drowned in the bathtub"
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That's true, but it happened in 1909, a few months before Twain's own death,
so the fact doesn't really have a lot of explanatory power re earlier
Christmases.

My understanding has always been simply that Susie's death cast a pall --
probably to a pathological degree -- over the holidays the family had
formerly celebrated so joyously.

Peter Salwen

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