18th-Century Characters, Including Frederick the Great, Discussion Post 35

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In the previous post Charles II found AITA:

Look, I, m, believe in live and let live. (And in not going on my travels again. Had enough of that to last a life time.) Why can't everyone else around me be more chill? Instead, my wife refuses to employ my girlfriend, my girlfriend won't budge and accept another office, my brother is set on a course to piss off everyone (he WILL go on his travels again), and my oldest kid shows signs of wanting my job which is just not on, sorry to say. And don't get me started about Mom (thank God she's living abroad). What am I doing wrong? AITA?

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Re: Backlog Reading - Wilhelmine and Fredersdorf

[cahn]

ahahaha, yeah, I didn't know who any of the people were when I read her memoirs! Which made the second half quite a slog for me (plus which at the time I'd had very little practice with any sort of historical reading), as at least the first half was mostly a reasonably small cast :) But I also stopped before I got to such gems as Christmas 1732, so.

I thought I knew SD was bad, but man, she was worse.

YEAH THIS. I also feel this way about FW on a regular basis :) (I suppose because I have a bad memory and also am sort of... optimistic? So I'm always surprised when FW is as bad as FW is!)

These kept being very endearing indeed, spelling and all

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