Jenny Kaye wrote:
and if he was that tender-hearted and they did expose their superfluous
girls, why didn't Dayna have *lots* of little adopted sisters?<
Possibly Lauren was the only abandoned girl in that whole generation. :-)
Maybe one of the people who knows more about social sciences than I do could say something, but it sounds a bit weird to me to just abandon one girl in twenty years?
Perhaps Lauren was orphaned and subsequently abandoned because none of her own people wanted the responsibility of taking care of her (another mouth to feed on limited resources, etc.) There's no reason to think that there would be lots of Sarran girls who'd lost their entire families.
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