to serve a nurse was, the famous author, louisa may alcott. her father had, four daughters. if you didn't remember that from little women. and she bad that they didn't have a man, the family to send off to war. so she did her bit by becoming a nurse. unfortunately, typhoid was a thing that was really flying around then. and she caught typhoid. she wasn't able to serve more than about a year, and then she had to go home. okay, i'm going to bore you for a minute. this is hero. this is mary edwards. walker. she went to the women's college in pennsylvania. very very well-educated talented young woman. she was briefly married. and divorced. her husband. and when the war war broke out, she went knocking on the door of the union army and said, here i am. don't you want to use me? and they said, nope. eventually they did take her as a volunteer. and primarily, she spent the war helping civilians in the south, like helping women deliver, babies and people in need during the civilian end of the war. but look at her outfit, guys. yes, that comes from somewhere from amelia bloomer, who

louisa may alcott. she somewhat hesitantly agreed to walk him over to waldo's house. why she did so is a little puzzling. she surely knew the score at bush, which is the house. ellen emerson's daughter. to turn them away. father sees no one now, she said, and i fear it might not be a pleasure if you did see him. but bark persisted, and eventually alcott escorted him into all those study where the teenagers celebrity quarries stood up and shook his hand. what followed was not as ellen had predicted, a pleasure, but thought he detected a flare of sentiments in wilder's eyes as they shook hands. after that, though, there were merely degrees of absence. waldo urged his young visitor to sit down, stepped away, to look out the window, and began whistling. he had clearly forgotten that bark and alcott were there when he noticed them again. he no longer recognized alcott. he was living eerily in a kind of eternal present in which no memory can be retained for more than a few seconds. his old wish to escape the past had been granted when an increasingly nervous bark astroworld