* {{Squick}}: The detailed descriptions of 19th and early 20th century abortion methods. Also, pre-eclampsia. And the Roses' relationship.
** In-Universe, Candy's reaction when she discovers that Rose is pregnant with her abusive father's baby.
** The sad, horrifically described, and (as the author's notes reveal) ''medically accurate'' death of [[spoiler: Mrs Eames]] (she drinks oil of tansy as an abortificant, and the resulting scurvy turns her internal organs to jelly).
** A young woman having a fever of 104 from a botched abortion and ultimately dying from acute peritonitis. As the doctor details his findings, the fetus was unexpelled. Her uterus was punctured. And there was a foreign object. It was a crochet hook. Homer is shocked by what he sees.
** The Crochet hook.
* TheWoobie:
** All the orphans, but most prominently Fuzzy, who tragically dies before he even has a chance to ever be adopted. Likewise Curly, who only wants to have a loving family, and cries when Hazel is adopted by one instead of himself.
** Wally, who returns from war severly injured (paralyzed from the waist down), not knowing that his girlfriend commited adultery with his newest employee- Though she herself truly regrets it.
** Rose, who is a victim of sexual abuse at the hands of her own father, and shortly goes through an unwanted pregnancy.
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