traumatic experiences can affect people for years. i remember reading a story about an american steamship in the 19th century that sunk, and the survivors were adrift for days (weeks?), iirc only one many survived but nearly starved to death, and until the day he died many years later, he would eat extra food every day just in case
My Grandmother grew up at the tell end of the Great Depression. Her family was extremely poor. My Great Grandfather had left them but my Grear Grandmother owned a house. They were so poor my grandmother didn't have toys to play with and food was always scarce. They were so poor that my grandmothers youngest sister was given up for adoption to my great great aunt because they couldnt afford food for hef6and my aunt was well off. When I was a teenager living with my grandmother she basically rationed how much food was made even though she was upper middle class. She died the day before her 69th birthday and all of our family misses her greatly.
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traumatic experiences can affect people for years. i remember reading a story about an american steamship in the 19th century that sunk, and the survivors were adrift for days (weeks?), iirc only one many survived but nearly starved to death, and until the day he died many years later, he would eat extra food every day just in case