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such a pitiable condition with that disease. Your experience and Ralph's too made me think of what I've gone through so many times with Frances. There were times when she was ill that she was unreasonable and hard to do for but she had naturally a less - much less headstrong nature than your father had.

Illness though, through toxic prisms, produces an effect on the mind and on the disposition and we must'nt blame people in those conditions for what they do and dont do. Its a part of the physical condition modified of course by their natural disposition & temperament. With me it takes the form of depression I get blue as indigo. You are a good hearted boy side but you hav'nt been ill very much and until you have you can't understand what it does to you. You check as though your father died of kidney trouble. Aphritis was it? The bladder difficulty could exist quite apart from kidney disease. Ralph did not say [[strikethrough]] the [[/strikethrough]] what was given as the cause of death. Uremic poisoning  I suppose but that can come without organic kidney disease I believe. Frances had no kidney disease but at the last she had to be catheterized owing to the increasing 

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"boy side" doesn't make sense...