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I'm leaving.
Wow, those are loaded words, and hat comes after them pretty much determines how the rest of your day will go.
I'm leaving for work is good. I'm leaving this here is fine. I'm leaving you a surprise, very good. But in the 1890s, if "for South Dakota" completed the phrase, as you'll see in "The Divorce Colony" by April White, it usually meant just one thing.
Baroness Margaret Laura Astor De Stuers had tried to leave her husband once before, but she was forced back because she was an Astor. It was 1889 and divorce could sully the Astor name, so she was forced to return to her husband. When the Baron tried to have her committed permanently to a mental institution and she lost custody of her...