I was thinking of 45 years ago, I was a child, I used to watch "little house on the prairie"

@shakemeup I'm sure of it. Laura Ingalls Wilder had to think about what would sell to the general public, and what they wouldn't want to know.

@LordShadowfire her original autobiography didn't sell so she turned her childhood into children's books and that is what took off. The original autobiography was in a museum and was finally published a few years ago, I think. I read a little bit of it then. Rather grim childhood.

@shakemeup Exactly. Then, as now, the truth needed to be improved based on what was selling.

@thepreposterouspanda oh wow, that's so cool

@Jenny1234 it really was

@AbsolutelyFabulous ehh I figured, let them enjoy their debate. 😄

You already know though, if that show were rehashed, all the kids would be fighting on social media.

@CestManan they really would be

@AbsolutelyFabulous OH and you KNOW, you KNOW, Nelly would be the HUGEST selfie wh*re in town.

"Well, MY latest instagram posts got the most likes of anyone in Walnut Grove!"

@Allelse there was poverty, drought, blindness because of the poverty.. Bad fashion too

@AbsolutelyFabulous Well that's a start.

@Allelse there was one episode where a girl was raped but it didn’t show it or say those words. She had walked home, Maybe from school through the woods and she’d heard like branches on the ground breaking and someone was behind her or walking up towards her and I think she might’ve screamed. The next thing I remember is she went home and she was in pretty bad shape and her dad was there and he knew instantly what happened to her and then he said something like we’ll tell everybody that your husband died