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#(the blood-stained piece of laura keene's dress was very morbid and very cool)
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All the tour groups in Springfield should be very proud of me for how well I refrained from sharing all my fascinating Lincoln facts.
#there were so many school groups!
#a giant one came in RIGHT AFTER i entered lincoln's cabinet room
#part of me was screaming 'children i NEED to tell you about all these idiots and their insane drama!'
#a smarter part of me understood that would be super weird
#so instead i regaled different individuals of my own traveling party after we had the room to ourselves
#then at lincoln's tomb we lucked out in getting there during the ten minutes of the day when school groups weren't there
#which meant we got a personal tour from a guide who seemed thrilled to have grown-ups to talk to
#he and my dad chatted about fishing for a long while in the entry
#it didn't feel disrespectful because it totally felt like the kind of conversation lincoln would have understood and joined in on
#and then we went on our way but the guide then chased us down to share all the fascinating lincoln stories as we went along
#(shout-out to lefty you were great)
#and then a school group found us so we made a graceful exit
#but outside a teacher was explaining to a different group about how robert was significant in his own right so he's buried at arlington
#and the RESTRAINT i showed in not immediately informing them that he was present at three presidential assassinations! it was rather heroic
#and then when we toured lincoln's house the guide (who accidentally made it clear he was a revolutionary war buff)
#(which made it a bit hilarious he was stuck with lincoln)
#asked for questions before we started and someone asked about lincoln's 1860 election campaign!
#aka one of my SPECIAL NICHE AREAS OF OBSESSION!
#you cannot imagine how desperately i wanted to tell him ALL ABOUT seward and thurlow weed
#anyway it was fun to go back now that i actually know stuff about lincoln
#but it was also a bit frustrating because now i know how much they leave out
#(though there was cool new info and artifacts)
#(the blood-stained piece of laura keene's dress was very morbid and very cool)
#also it reminded me that i still have that book on the 1860 election i've yet to read and the hype is so real
#presidential talk
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