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I believe it was to elaborate on how much Grandma Judy looked like the women in the picture who was actually Queenie, her mother, and Avery's great grandmother.
It's said toward the end of the book that Judy is the only one who had Queenie's face. The other girls, aside from their golden hair and fair complexions, all looked more like their dad. So what Mary said is right, Judy just had a very strong resemblance to her mother.
I think the point was to drive home the need for Avery to find out why the woman in the photo held such a strong resemblance to herself....and thus her grandmother. It was pretty well done without being cheezy...the blonde curls and facial features kept resurfacing in both sides of the story.
Most of us probably thought at one time that Grandma Judy was Camellia. But eventually the story became clear that she was the girl twin born later, the child the other sisters never met because they were taken to the TCS and when the twin was born she was taken away and given to the wealthy senator and his wife (then her son became a senator also). Judy was the one instrumental in finding and getting her other sisters together, thus the pictures of the four of them who met regularly in secret all those years. (I think sometimes speed readers might miss telling details. You have to read with your eyes, ears, mind, heart, and emotions.)
And if you look at the date in the very first chapter it is August 3, 1939 Grandma July's birthday. That's how I knew the twins didn't die and Judy was one of the twins. Shad Arthur Foss was her brother- also born August 3, 1939. The sisters never knew what happened to him or their other brother Gabion.
Yes, Mary, I didn't mention that; but one of the details that speed readers may miss that I was referring to.
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I believe it was to elaborate on how much Grandma Judy looked like the women in the picture who was actually Queenie, her mother, and Avery's great grandmother.
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It's said toward the end of the book that Judy is the only one who had Queenie's face. The other girls, aside from their golden hair and fair complexions, all looked more like their dad. So what Mary said is right, Judy just had a very strong resemblance to her mother.
I think the point was to drive home the need for Avery to find out why the woman in the photo held such a strong resemblance to herself....and thus her grandmother. It was pretty well done without being cheezy...the blonde curls and facial features kept resurfacing in both sides of the story.
Most of us probably thought at one time that Grandma Judy was Camellia. But eventually the story became clear that she was the girl twin born later, the child the other sisters never met because they were taken to the TCS and when the twin was born she was taken away and given to the wealthy senator and his wife (then her son became a senator also). Judy was the one instrumental in finding and getting her other sisters together, thus the pictures of the four of them who met regularly in secret all those years. (I think sometimes speed readers might miss telling details. You have to read with your eyes, ears, mind, heart, and emotions.)
And if you look at the date in the very first chapter it is August 3, 1939 Grandma July's birthday. That's how I knew the twins didn't die and Judy was one of the twins. Shad Arthur Foss was her brother- also born August 3, 1939. The sisters never knew what happened to him or their other brother Gabion.
Yes, Mary, I didn't mention that; but one of the details that speed readers may miss that I was referring to.
