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** It's not really that bad. The Germans probably catch more of it because [[Acceptable Targets|it was written during wartime.]]
** Plus Sissy scandalizes the family by having her tenth baby in a hospital with a Jewish doctor, citing her faith in Jews' higher intelligence and greater sympathy for women in childbirth. Confirming her belief, her baby is born seemingly dead, but Dr. Aaronstein revives it with oxygen.
** Also, some re-issues of the book edit out an entire paragraph on why Johnny dislikes Russians and Communism (and also show his ignorance of the subjects, as would have been normal for the [[Eagle Land|American Everyman]] of the 1910s) and replace it with the line "Because we've got Democracy and that's the best there is!" [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|Thanks, publishers, for denying today's youth a great, educational look at our past ignorance, which could have been used to prevent future minds from thinking that way.]]
* [[Values Dissonance]]: The "balloon" incident sounds embarrassing but funny today, but disgraced the Nolans to the point that they had to leave the neighborhood. Smith's original manuscript had Katie and Johnny being denounced from the pulpit by a priest who lost all his siblings to malnutrition [[Executive Meddling|but the publisher didn't want to alienate Catholic readers.]]
** [[Good Girls Avoid Abortion]], [[Marital Rape License]], [[No Periods Period]]... there's a ''lot'' of [[Values Dissonance]] in this book if you look for it.
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