Status Updates From Before Dorothy

Page 100 Emily longed for her sister Annie to be happy and reassured herself that the love Annie had found with Leonardo would come with John, in time.

This is nonsense.Every relationship and love is different!

53 Emily was the youngest, Irish twin to Annie.
Youngest Joseph who died as a baby.
Emily had a piece of Connemara Marble.
58 Nell, the oldest, moved to California with her rancher husband Bill Hugson.
Parents Joe and Frances Kelly.
63 Ringling Circus, Leonardo Stregone, Italian American that Annie was enchanted with.

27 It still seemed impossible that a telegram had arrived a week ago bearing the devastating news that Annie and John had drowned in a boating accident on Lake Michigan. Emily was sewing flour sack dresses at the time. She'd been saving the sacks printed with blue and white gingham— the pattern a favorite among the girls. Now the blue and white checks would forever remind her of the single word: "Dorothy."

Dorothy, Cora
Sisters: Annie, Nell, Emily
Emily & Henry
Annie & John
Nell lives in California and has five children and a sick husband.
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“Perhaps John wanted her (Dorothy) to be with his cousin,” Nell suggests. “Retain the family connection. And despite all your disagreements, I know Annie still loved you (Emily) the most.”