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Current Talk '05 I / Re: Modern Woman
« on: July 02, 2005, 02:56:16 PM »I guess we should just take both, add them together, divide by half, and that'll be the age of Carolyn when her mother isolated herself, and give us Carolyn's age at the beginning of the series.
Hey, I like that idea!
But seriously, my rule of thumb for DS is to go with what's mentioned most often, and in most instances within the storylines Carolyn's birth year can be determined (by dialogue, date on a headstone, etc.) as 1949, and that's consistent with her being 17 at the start of the series. Her backstory during Leviathans is a glaring aberration. But then I suppose the writers felt it was more poignant for Carolyn to have been 2-years-old when Paul left than to have been -6 months because 1) Paul would never have even seen his daughter, and 2) he may not have even known that Liz was pregnant - both of which certainly wouldn't have worked with the notion that Carolyn was Paul's "most precious possession".
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The birth records office in the Collinsport county courthouse must be a real mess.
Along with every other records office in Collinsport!