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These Happy Golden Years
by Laura Ingalls Wilder
I've read this book the night before so many milestones. I first read it in around first grade and as I came back to it the night before middle school, high school, senior year and my first day of university, I find a new sense of comfort. I can find no better descriptor for this book, and the whole series, than comforting. Laura's path to adulthood has informed my own.
As an elementary schoolchild, I found Laura and Almanzo's courtship to be the most romantic thing I had heard of. Years later, I laughed, horrified at Laura telling him that her acceptance "would depend on the ring". The real reason this is the book I return to, however, is that sense of the bittersweet. After so many years, Laura is setting out on her own– both to teach and to be married. It's that feeling–and the assurance that, because this is kind, clever, spunky Laura we will get through anything happily– that strikes just the right chord with me.
As an elementary schoolchild, I found Laura and Almanzo's courtship to be the most romantic thing I had heard of. Years later, I laughed, horrified at Laura telling him that her acceptance "would depend on the ring". The real reason this is the book I return to, however, is that sense of the bittersweet. After so many years, Laura is setting out on her own– both to teach and to be married. It's that feeling–and the assurance that, because this is kind, clever, spunky Laura we will get through anything happily– that strikes just the right chord with me.