Kate Chopin (Or Catherine O’Flaherty was born in Missouri in 1850. She grew up speaking both French and English because her mother’s side of the family was French. When she was five years old her father was killed in a railroad accident and when she was 13 her grandmother died then her half brother died in the Civil War. She loved music and enjoyed mimickry. She was married at 20 years old to Oscar Chopin. She had five sons and one daughter. In 1882 her husband died of malaria leaving her a widow at the age 32, in the next two years she had an affair with a local planter. She then moved so her children could go to a nicer school, when she was 35 her mother died. Due to these set of extreme tragedies her long, brown, wavy hair greyed prematurely. What a horrible life.
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