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The story of the Dionne Quintuplets—five identical baby girls born in rural Canada in the 1930s whose uniqueness captured the attention of their own country and beyond—is endlessly fascinating. In this fictionalized version, their story is told through a fictional midwife's assistant who helps deliver the babies and stays on for years to help tend them. Through our heroine's eyes, we see the tension, conflict, and criticism that stalked the five girls and their family throughout all of their liv
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I wanted to enjoy this more than I did, but frankly the abrupt ending ruined the book for me. Also, I kept looking for sketches, although I know they don't exist. The book had potential, it just failed to achieve it. AtY week 24. 4 books inspired by the wedding rhyme: Book #2 Something New - in 1934, there was nothing newer in the world that five identical infants that survived! PSC - A book about a family
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I am very familiar with the story of the Dionne quintuplets, this book is supposed to be a fictionalized journaling of a nurse present during the early years of their lives. The actual plot was interesting and I thought did a decent job of retelling the events as they potentially happened and how the people around the quints may have felt in those moments. My big issue with this book has to do with the parents of the babies. I'm well aware of the rumors and stories of what may have transpired be
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