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What Really Made Mary Ingalls Go Blind? Doctors Say ‘Little House’ Got It Wrong
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What Really Made Mary Ingalls Go Blind? Doctors Say ‘Little House’ Got It Wrong
Mary Ingalls was cramming for her teacher’s exam by the light of an oil lamp when the words on the page began to swim. In the two-part Little House on the Prairie episode “I’ll Be Waving as You Drive Away,” which NBC aired on March 6 and March 13, 1978, she knocks that lamp over and starts a fire, and a trip to the eye doctor brings the news every viewer dreaded. Mary is going blind, and the show traced it back to the scarlet fever she had suffe…
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