Which Reminds Me

Yes, in fact I do remember having read the novel "Christy," by Catherine Marshall. I read it many years ago but I do seem to remember that I thought that it was very well written, evoked lovely images of life in the backwoods of Appalachia and is based loosely on actual events that happened to her mother, while not avoiding the subject of human foibles and mistakes that were made by them. Someone was telling me that there is actually a place somewhere in Appalachia where all those people still live, or at least their descendants of a century or more ago. They all know each other and know who the children were in the book. They know how their names and story facts and dates were rearranged and scrambled and compacted by the author for novel purposes, even though the rest of us members of the general public are just out of the loop as to what that was about. Ok, fine, that's nice that you, or is your name Wendy, have this personal book on which to stake your claim of being a member of the human race. That's your personal thing to keep to yourself. Personally, I don't want to learn more about that. Can you imagine how many thousands or even millions of novel fictions are based loosely on various scrambled and rearranged facts of history? Also, novel writers often like to add their own twists to matters that would likely not have preoccupied the persons of an earlier era. Anyway, I already have enough headaches without having to think about that also and trying to imagine what other curve balls might be included with that. I just have no idea what is this question you are expecting me to answer in regards to that.