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She did not... she was the devout, poorly-educated daughter of an urban Scots-Irish Catholic family desperate to appear genteel. They yearned for the Victorian (or Edwardian) definition of respectability - every piece of furniture was covered (no legs!) - and who looked down on anything associated with the "old country" as unbearably primitive and peasant-y.

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Exactly... I can't tell you how many comments I've had to abandon because they just trailed off into incoherent and disgusted mumbling.

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