I don’t remember when the fictional version that I read of the Dionnes’ story ended, but this one continued right up to publication in 2018, when two of the sisters were still alive. They were harsh when they got the girls back they were trying to provide a normal life for them, but they didn’t seem to have any inkling of how hard this was for the girls. They’d never had to do any work before, everything was given to them and/or done for them. Initially, they didn’t know any different, but when they finally were back with their family, they had no idea what a “normal” life was like. Wow, those kids certainly did not have a normal childhood. It was only when they were almost 10-years old did their parents win back custody of their own children. Instead they were paraded out in front of the crowds who came to see them in their rural Ontario “home”. The Ontario government took over their care, supposedly so they wouldn’t be paraded around the U.S. They were so careful, the family was rarely able to visit. But the doctor who took care of them was so careful and cautious, he separated the quints into an entirely new, separate building across the street from their parents and other siblings, taken care of full-time by rotating nurses. It was the Depression and their parents had no idea how they would pay to take care of 5 more kids! They were the first set of quintuplets who all lived. The Dionne quintuplets were born in rural Ontario in 1934.
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