David Rosenthal: belief

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…I don’t know if this came up in the stuff you were reading. Something I read alluded to the idea that Ingvar’s grandfather committed suicide basically out of poverty. His life was so miserable from being totally impoverished, that he was clinically depressed. Well, yes. There’s a little more to the story. Turns out the actual reason for the family’s immigration from Germany was more about Franzisca and Achim’s marriage, and Franzisca’s family. Achim had been from a noble family in Germany, or at least a family with historically ties to the nobility. Franzisca was a commoner and (I think) an illegitimate child born out of wedlock. Achim’s parents, in particular his mother, was not happy about this, didn’t approve of the marriage. Part of, or really probably the whole reason for their immigration from Germany to Sweden was to escape this. This is tough. So to plant a seed here, there is a strong cultural thing in this family of don’t be poor. Figure out a way to earn a keep, make wealth, deeply ingrained from this.…

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