Lincoln and Syphilis

[RJNorton]

Perhaps I am being a little naive, but I think there's a chance that Mary Todd was Abraham's "first." To me he seemed awkward and shy around girls, almost a little scared of them. He seemed generally more comfortable around older women. At mixed gatherings, I think he was the type to go off with the guys and tell jokes and talk politics. It is just hard for me to view him approaching a house of prostitution and knocking on the door even if he had plenty of money. I do not think he necessarily thought of it as saving himself for marriage, but I think it's possible it happened that way because of the type of person he was. Maybe the odds are that Mary was not his first, but I do think it's not impossible that she was his first.