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His parents' wedding was held in 1913 as a grand event in Indianapolis, attended by those in the highest social circles there.<ref>''Palm Sunday'', p. 51.</ref> His father was trained as an architect at [[MIT]]<ref>''Palm Sunday'', p. 62.; ''Fates Worse Than Death'', p. 117.</ref>, and Vonnegut recounts he would often tell true stories with what he felt were unusual outcomes that he felt stood on their own merit as worth telling.

His parents' wedding was held in 1913 as a grand event in Indianapolis, attended by those in the highest social circles there.<ref>''Palm Sunday'', p. 51.</ref> His father was trained as an architect at [[MIT]]<ref>''Palm Sunday'', p. 62.; ''Fates Worse Than Death'', p. 117.</ref>, and Vonnegut recounts he would often tell true stories with what he felt were unusual outcomes that he felt stood on their own merit as worth telling.

Vonnegut was one of three children, his brother Bernard growing up to become an esteemed atmospheric physicist.  Like so many in America when the Great Depression hit, his family suffered from financial insecurity, and when his father brought over a businessman offering a suspicious investment that gave his father hope of regaining that security, the precocious younger Vonnegut questioned the issuer, much to the consternation of his father, but the businessman later ended up cheating many in Indianapolis out of their wealth when his scheme turned out to be fraudulent.

Vonnegut was one of three children, his brother Bernard growing up to become an esteemed atmospheric physicist.  Like so many in America when the Great Depression hit, his family suffered from financial insecurity, and in 1932 when his father brought over a businessman offering a suspicious investment that gave his father hope of regaining that security, the precocious younger Vonnegut questioned the issuer, much to the consternation of his father, but the businessman later ended up cheating many in Indianapolis out of their wealth when his scheme turned out to be fraudulent.<ref>''Palm Sunday'', p. 221-224.</ref>

Vonnegut admitted later in life that, possibly in part due to stress from motherhood and the ordeals involved in the Great Depression that his mother, daughter of a millionaire playboy, would lapse into intense fits of rage<ref>Vonnegut, Kurt (1991). ''Fates Worse Than Death: An Autobiographical Collage of the 1980s'' (New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons), p. 36.</ref>, and that she eventually committed suicide in May 1944.<ref>''Palm Sunday'', p. 36.</ref>, her cause of death being publicly covered up.  Vonnegut would struggle with depression himself throughout his life.<ref>''Fates Worse Than Death'', p. 29.</ref>

Vonnegut admitted later in life that, possibly in part due to stress from motherhood and the ordeals involved in the Great Depression that his mother, daughter of a millionaire playboy, would lapse into intense fits of rage<ref>Vonnegut, Kurt (1991). ''Fates Worse Than Death: An Autobiographical Collage of the 1980s'' (New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons), p. 36.</ref>, and that she eventually committed suicide in May 1944.<ref>''Palm Sunday'', p. 36.</ref>, her cause of death being publicly covered up.  Vonnegut would struggle with depression himself throughout his life.<ref>''Fates Worse Than Death'', p. 29.</ref>