I found it interesting because I am sure it was a memory Laura had from childhood, that some girls that young, probably poorer girls with less options, were married off in their early teens, and that she couldn’t fathom it at that same age. I do feel that young teen girls as much as they love to play grownup really need some more parenting and nurturing and developing before they become a wife.
We’d have gone extinct, were everyone so frail.