Word: lunger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...story, told by an old mail-carrier of the Southwest with many false starts and digressions, relates the sad fate of a nameless woman. Married to a rich husband in the East, with two children, she left them to come out to the desert to nurse her "lunger" lover, ten years younger than herself. He recovered and one fine day up & left her. She stayed on in the lonely cabin by herself, waiting for him to come back. He never did. She contracted tuberculosis herself, caught from him, and gradually wasted away. As she was being taken to a California...
...know what it would be but he was sure it would happen in New Mexico, because that was the country he lived in and loved. Card had a fine time although there were few boys to play with and his family was not rich. His father was a "lunger," and ex-professor from the East; his mother a vestal virgin dedicated to keeping the home fires burning...