One day when Franklin was four he came bounding into the living room to find a younger child standing awkwardly in the doorway, her finger in her mouth. With her were her parents, Elliott and Anna Roosevelt, houseguests from the Oyster Bay branch of the family. However genealogically remote, five generations by this time, the two clans clung together. Elliott and Anna had been engaged at a house party at Algonac given by Laura Delano, Sara’s younger sister. Elliott Roosevelt was Franklin’s godfather. The boy immediately took the child by the hand, led her to the nursery, where he dropped down
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