The Cabbage Patch kids have their origin with the bestselling 1901 novel by Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice, Mrs. Wiggs and the Cabbage Patch. Mrs. Wiggs, whose husband had "traveled to eternity by the alcohol route," was left to raise her 5 children alone is a Louisville shantytown named Cabbage Patch. The unbridled optimism with which she faces adversity was inspiration to many women readers of the time. ...
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