family-itch

Updated: July 22, 2025

I wouldn't change places with anybody alive, I'm too glad for everything that's ever happened to me, good and bad. I'm not ashamed of the beginning, no, nor I'm not afraid of the end. "Will you believe me, though, when I tell you what worried me like the mischief for awhile? Family, parson! You can't live in South Carolina without having the seven-years' Family-itch wished on you, you know.

Marie Conway Oemler - Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man