My mother, her father before her, and his mother before him were all exceptionally anxious people. When my great-grandmother married her neighbor, my great-grandfather, they went east to start their life in Wisconsin, but G.G. (as she is sometimes known) couldn’t stand being away from home and had a “mental breakdown.”
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