I have no idea. I don't think it was Mary Todd, since she's never interested me at all. But it's not like stepmothers were that thin on the ground, whether historically or in my own families -- you have eight or more kids, you're probably not gonna live very long, y'know? And then the widower's left with a bunch of kids and needs help raising them, hence the necessity of stepmothers. So might've been a mix-up of another family story getting overlaid on Mr. Lincoln.
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Date: 22 Jan 2011 09:04 am (UTC)I have no idea. I don't think it was Mary Todd, since she's never interested me at all. But it's not like stepmothers were that thin on the ground, whether historically or in my own families -- you have eight or more kids, you're probably not gonna live very long, y'know? And then the widower's left with a bunch of kids and needs help raising them, hence the necessity of stepmothers. So might've been a mix-up of another family story getting overlaid on Mr. Lincoln.