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87-Food Trucks and Vendors (The Dionne Quintuplets' Survival Story)
Have you ever heard of the Dionne quintuplets? In this riveting comeback episode, Jessica uncovers the shocking story of the world's first surviving quintuplets, born in rural Canada in 1934. What began as a medical miracle quickly transformed into one of history's most disturbing examples of child exploitation.
These five identical girls—Yvonne, Annette, Cecile, Emily, and Marie—were removed from their parents and placed under government guardianship, where they became Canada's biggest tourist attraction. Behind one-way screens in a compound dubbed "Quintland," they were displayed to 3,000 visitors daily like animals in a zoo. Their images sold everything from corn syrup to toothpaste, generating millions while they lived behind barbed wire fences.
Jessica traces their journey from public exhibition to family reunification at age nine, where sadly, they faced new traumas in "the saddest home they ever knew." Yet through it all, the sisters maintained an unbreakable bond. Today, the two surviving sisters still live together at age 91, embodying the episode's opening quote: "Sisters function as safety nets in a chaotic world simply by being there for each other."
This extraordinary tale raises profound questions about child welfare, governmental authority, and the exploitation of vulnerable individuals. What happens when children become commodities? How do siblings survive unimaginable circumstances together? And what responsibility do we have to protect those who cannot protect themselves? Join us as we explore these questions through the remarkable story of five little girls who captured the world's attention but paid a devastating price.
**Ingrid completely misspoke (surprised?). Cecile passed away at the age of 91, not 92.**
What childhood stories of exploitation have you heard that still haunt you today? Share your thoughts and be sure to subscribe as we return with new sister stories every other week!
Sources:
https://www.life.com/history/the-dionne-quintuplets-little-girls-lost-in-the-harsh-glare-of-fame/
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dionne_quintuplets
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/world/canada/cecile-dionne-dead.html
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Sisters function as safety nets in a chaotic world simply by being there for each other. Carol Selene.
Speaker 2:Well, hello and welcome back Hiya sister. Hiya sister and those well, maybe no one's listening anymore. Okay.
Speaker 1:So welcome back.
Speaker 2:Welcome back. Welcome to happy. What what I was typing? I don't know what I was typing in. I started typing in happy and I said it out loud. That makes no sense.
Speaker 1:Did you mean to be tapping, not tapping?
Speaker 2:happy, no Tap tap, tap it in. I was looking up Sister's Day because I was going to mention what day that actually was. Oh yes, sunday August 3rd. This is coming out. Obviously you know it's not Sunday August 3rd. This is coming out, obviously, you know it's not Sunday August 3rd as you're listening. But we decided to make our comeback around Sister's Day, sisters, so you're welcome and welcome, and thank you. Okay, let's not drag this out. Nobody wants to listen to this too much. Okay, and jessica has a story for us.
Speaker 1:Yes, yes, I do. It is um kind of sad and kind of not sad.
Speaker 2:This is this is what jessica does. I, in case you need a reminder. Jessica cries. I'm not going to cry this time and if she's not crying, she wants all of the rest of us to cry, and it doesn't happen.
Speaker 1:So this is a story that I had never heard of, though, of a pair of quintuplets from Canada which were all the rage. That's weird to say they were. A lot of people knew about them back in the 1900s, which just made me feel really old saying that.
Speaker 2:Okay, Wait, what now?
Speaker 1:A lot of people what now Knew about them in the 1900s.
Speaker 2:Why did that make you feel old?
Speaker 1:Say 1900? Because we were born in the 1900s.
Speaker 2:Well, not like 1900. Obviously Just in case any of you needed clarification on that. But still, why would that make you feel old?
Speaker 1:I don't know, it just did.
Speaker 2:Can I tell my story now? 26-year-olds were born in the 1900s.
Speaker 1:May I tell my story?
Speaker 2:please. Is 26 old. No, you should say no because you're twice that. Anyway, carry on.
Speaker 1:This story is about the Dion Quintuplets and I may not be saying that name right? I tried to look for pronunciations, pronunciations, but I how do you? Spell it D-I-O-N-N-E.
Speaker 2:Dion.
Speaker 1:Dion Dion. What did you say? Dion, diony D-O-N-A. Oh gosh, okay, ready. Five identical girls were born on May 28, 1934, in the village of Corbeil, ontario, that's, in Canada. Their names in order of birth— Do we?
Speaker 2:know how common like multi-births were.
Speaker 1:I'm going to get to that oh okay, okay, sorry, you know it's me.
Speaker 2:That's what—you cry, I jump ahead.
Speaker 1:Oh my gosh, I know that's what you cry. I jump ahead. Oh my gosh, I know. Their names and order of birth were Yvonne, annette, cecile, emily and Marie. The girls were born two months prematurely and collectively they weighed less than 14 pounds and were reported to be small enough to be held in one hand Not all five of them, but like one in one hand.
Speaker 1:My goodness, I know they were not expected to survive and were the first quintuplets in the world known to have survived. First quintuplets yes, yes, yes, yes, wow, isn't that crazy.
Speaker 2:Well, it's crazy that there was a. Did their mom survive? Yes, are you? She did yes. Oh, will you let me tell the story. I'm sorry, okay, yes, okay.
Speaker 1:Dr Alan Ray Defoe delivered, and he also had two midwives. It was just listed as Aunt Donalda, so I don't know her last name. It's just Aunt Donalda, Aunt Donalda, donalda.
Speaker 2:Dion.
Speaker 1:Maybe, I don't know if it was their aunt. Oh, okay, yeah, and Madame Benoit Lebel, benoit B-N-O-I-T. Anyways, about the girls, it's French Benoit.
Speaker 2:Benoit, benoit.
Speaker 1:B-N-O-I-T. Anyways, about the girls, it's French Benoit. Benoit, emily and Marie shared an amniotic sac, annette and Yvonne shared an amniotic sac and it's suspected that Cecile shared one with a child that was miscarried around week 12. Because the mom reported that she passed something around week 12. And they think that that would have was the baby sister the baby with Cecile hold on one second.
Speaker 2:Is your microphone on? Yeah, is your microphone on the microphone settings?
Speaker 1:yeah okay, okay so their mom's name was Elzire. Yeah, okay, okay. So their mom's name was Elzire and that's it, period. Their mom's name was Elzire. I typoed, I'm sorry it threw me off. So the girls were fed, quote unquote 70-20 formula, which is cow's milk, boiled water, two spoonfuls spoons full of corn syrup and one or two drops of rum. So that's what the girls were fed.
Speaker 2:Well, hey, mm-hmm, I bet they slept, well too 1934.
Speaker 1:So word got out after their dad's name is Oliva I'm probably pronouncing that wrong too. Word got out after the dad's brother asked the local paper how much it would cost to run an announcement for five babies at a single birth. So after he went that to the paper like word spread everywhere, that's really cute, though that's what he's asking.
Speaker 1:I thought so too. So after the word spread, people were donating incubators because what they had done is they had the like hot water bottles all over and because they didn't have incubators and they had to keep the girls warm and they were teeny, teeny tiny. So people donated incubators that did not run electricity because the family home didn't have any. Go ahead.
Speaker 2:Finish. No, finish the thought Sorry. Okay, and women, you're so annoyed. See, that's good, we don't have a video.
Speaker 1:And women all over the US, canada and I think some even came from overseas, sent in breast milk and were paid 10 cents an ounce, which also helped supplement their income, because 1934, Great Depression was, you know yeah, oh gosh, Okay.
Speaker 2:So my question, sorry, Did it say like when they were allowed to go home or how long they had to stay in the hospital or no? Were they home birthed? They were home birthed, it's 19.
Speaker 1:Oh, my God.
Speaker 2:I'm so sorry, hold on, I'll catch up. Just give me a second. Oh, my God so there, it's been a long day, okay, stop talking.
Speaker 1:It's a podcast. A train, a train. Could you? Would you on a train? A train with 28 ounces of breast milk? Was delivered every morning for the girls, which doesn't sound like a lot, but they were so teeny, tiny, all five of them. This is crazy, this is craziness. So they actually went down and broke down. They only had estimates for how much each girl weighed because they didn't keep track of that, but I mean five girls less than 14 pounds, that's less than three pounds. Like it's so tiny, they're just so tiny.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Oh, so cute there are. Life Magazine actually has this wonderful picture spread. We'll put the link in the show notes because the pictures are copyrighted, I can't share them ourselves, but oh my gosh, they're just adorable. Okay, so this is where it gets a little icky. So the girl's father, oliva Dion he had a problem Before the birth of the five girls they already had five other children and so now they had 10. Oh man.
Speaker 2:Was his problem fathering children.
Speaker 1:Obviously that was not his problem.
Speaker 2:No, I mean with like other people.
Speaker 1:Oh no, it was all him and his wife. Oh, okay, okay, okay, okay, yeah. So it was because it was in the middle of the Great Depression and now they have 10 kids to raise. Oh my gosh, yes, it's just crazy. So he was worried about the medical bills, the child care costs, food, you know, just taking care of everyone.
Speaker 2:He wasn't worried about that when he was feeling frisky, no, was he Six times?
Speaker 1:Even when she was pregnant, they didn't expect that there was five. They thought maybe that she was carrying twins.
Speaker 2:Because they're so tiny.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they did not expect that there was five babies.
Speaker 2:And they were the first ones ever. So who would ever think that?
Speaker 1:Well, they were the first ones ever to survive. They weren't the first ones ever.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I really should just mute myself.
Speaker 1:I'm not smart tonight For the love of baby Moses, I hope you do so rude, okay. So this is where the story gets bad, okay. So the dad, being worried about money, the century of progress exhibit at the world's fair in chicago reached out to the family and said hey, can we have your babies? And their incubators showed our exhibit. And apparently it wasn't unusual for quote unquote incubator babies to be shown at fairs because the incubator was such a new technology that they wanted to show off the actual technology of the incubator. But they actually had babies in there.
Speaker 2:So like right next to the bearded lady.
Speaker 1:Right, I don't know. I mean, the exhibit was a century of progress, so I think they were trying to show like the medical marvel of it. But at the same time, come look at these teeny, tiny babies Right, struggling to survive yeah, exactly, and traveling all the way from Canada to Chicago. Oh, come on. So the dad signed a contract with yep for the kids.
Speaker 2:It's a typical Feb request, by the way.
Speaker 1:Let me see your babies, oh Chicago. So he signed the contract, but he revoked it a couple days later. However, this caused some controversy, because the Red Cross was now concerned of are these parents going to exploit these kids? We want to make sure to help them out. And because they were five quintuplets, I almost said five quintuplets I always say five quintuplets and because they were the first quintuplets.
Speaker 2:My smartness is rubbing off on you.
Speaker 1:They were a big deal. So the Red Cross stepped in. And the Red Cross said hey, we will take care of your kids for two years. We'll pay for all the medical costs, and they also want to protect them from this contract. So the parents agreed, because of the amount of medical costs and their financial status, to let the Red Cross take over ownership guardianship. I'm so sorry.
Speaker 2:Are they taking them somewhere? Where are they going?
Speaker 1:I'm getting kids of that. Oh my gosh. Okay, so that was in 1934. So this is when the girls were so young, in February of 1935. So they're not even a year old yet. Even a year old yet, the parents went to Chicago as a quote, unquote, parents of the world famous babies, because these babies were absolutely world famous and they started making stage appearances. So the premier of Ontario, which is some political position, I'm not quite sure what it equates to in the US. I didn't do that research.
Speaker 2:It wasn't like prime minister, premier it says premier?
Speaker 1:Yeah, premier, he used this trip to extend the guardianship and then he passed a law called the Dionne's Quintuplets Act of 1935. So the act is named after the quintuplets, not very specific. I know right, how many kids can we apply this to? So the acts actually made the girls wards of the crown until they were 18.
Speaker 2:What? Yes, but in a way like it would make sure that they're taken care of. It would.
Speaker 1:Okay, but I mean, is that a good enough reason to take away guardianship from parents? I don't know, it's very controversial, okay, so there was actually a board of guardians, and on the board of guardians it was the doctor who delivered them, dr Defoe. There was a judge His name was Joseph Ballin, the minister of welfare at the moment who was David Kroll, and then I saw conflicting information. One said that it was the girl's grandpa that was on the board, and then the other one said that it was actually the dad that was also part of the board.
Speaker 1:But, a family member nonetheless.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so I think it was a grandpa until he may have passed away and then the dad took over, I think I don't know. It's just I couldn't get a straight answer. There's just too many back and forth with it. I did find that the dad actually didn't partake much into the board matters, supposedly because he felt his vote wouldn't matter and also to dispute the fact that the Crown had guardianship of his children. So the board met once a month and they had full control over all business matters for the girls, which meant caring for them, managing their money, creating contracts which were done of movies and commercials.
Speaker 1:Oh, I was just about to ask what contracts and the government actually created a tourist industry around the girls?
Speaker 2:Yes, and then the government gets all the money. Yeah.
Speaker 1:Well, it's supposed to go into a trust fund.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 1:And this trust fund is supposed to be just for the girls and it's supposed to be for them when they grow up, and that the money that is used to take care of them is supposed to come from the Red Cross and the government already.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 1:Mm-hmm. Okay, so the kids were born on a farmhouse and across the street from the farmhouse they actually built the Defoe Hospital and Nursery where the girls lived. So it was across from their farmhouse. See, a hospital. Yes, yes, but they moved there in 1934. It was dubbed Quintland eventually.
Speaker 2:Oh my gosh, did they have like vendors and stuff? It was dubbed Quintland eventually.
Speaker 1:Oh my gosh, Did they have like vendors and stuff?
Speaker 2:Stop, and listen.
Speaker 1:Okay, okay, so they moved in.
Speaker 2:Food trucks.
Speaker 1:They didn't have food trucks back then. I know, Farmer's market.
Speaker 2:Maybe they actually probably really did have farmer's markets.
Speaker 1:Probably so. They moved there in 1934 when the Red Cross decided to take over, and the girls lived there until they were nine years old. It had a pool and an outdoor playground, but it was surrounded by a viewing area for the public which had one-way screens to minimize noise and distractions. So they're like an exhibit. Mm-hmm. The girls were brought to the playground two or three times a day to be viewed by the public and the whole entire compound. Because the staff lived there too, it was surrounded by a seven-foot barbed wire fence.
Speaker 2:Oh my gosh, Did they get to see their siblings?
Speaker 1:I'm going to get to that part? Oh my gosh, not until they left their Quint land. Yeah, I think they met them, but they didn't engage. That's awful. I'll get to their siblings in a second.
Speaker 1:Okay, so their day consisted of this they dressed together in a big bathroom, they drank orange juice and cod liver oil, and then they had their hair curled. They said a prayer, a gong sounded, they ate breakfast in the dining room. 30 minutes later they cleared the table, then they played in the sunroom for 30 minutes, took a 15 minute break and at nine o'clock, had their morning inspection with dr defoe. Not sure what that entails, I'm not, I don't know. Um, every month they had a different timetable of activities. They bathed every day before dinner, put on their pajamas and then ate dinner, which was served precisely at 6 pm, and then they went into the quiet playroom to say their prayers. Each girl had a color and a symbol to mark whatever belonged to her. So instead of knowing the girls and making sure that they knew which girl was which, they had colored ponytails, colors and animals. So they're just objects.
Speaker 2:So I know that education for women and girls was a really big thing back then. Was there any kind of school or education or teaching them anything?
Speaker 1:they, they did, it did say that they attended school there.
Speaker 1:It didn't say what they learned, though but they're probably like embroidery or cross-stitching or something their education does come into play, because I think it's in their adult part that I talk about, because when they were 18 and they were out on their own, they didn't know the difference between a nickel and a quarter. Oh my God, okay, yeah. So the girls and the colors Annette's color was red and her design was a maple leaf. Cecile was green and her sign was a turkey. Emily had white and a tulip, marie was blue and a teddy bear and Yvonne was pink and a bluebird and a teddy bear and Yvonne was pink and a bluebird. So, finally, the doctor was viewed as being taken advantage of his new fame. He spent a lot of money. He removed one of the three primary caretakers of the quintuplets that lived at Quintland with him, and this removal involved only their dad, as he took legal action to regain custody. So the general public did not know that the doctor profited $182,466 in 1943. What? Which is the equivalent of over $3 million in 2023.
Speaker 1:Oh my God, yeah, he profited over $3 million off these babies. So when the visits first started, the people could watch them through a window in the hospital, and then the hospital realized that this wasn't good for the girls, because they got so excited when the visitors came and they got irritated when they left, because they wanted to play with them and interact with them because it's you know, it's something different, and so telling the visitors to make to not make loud noises wasn't enough to stop them. So that's how they decided. I'm so grossed out.
Speaker 2:They're probably like tapping on the window. You know how people do at the zoo.
Speaker 1:Yeah or aquariums yep, exactly, oh my gosh. So they, um, I think I said this. They were displayed, displayed four times a day. I did quote unquote, sorry, y'all couldn't see that, so they could, if we were doing video stop.
Speaker 1:so the observatory, which is the this enclosed area enclosed area to look at everyone and not just through the window of the hospital opened on Canada Day in 1936. Thousands of tourists came to see the daughters, the sisters, and hundreds of cars came in. They were told to be quiet, not to speak to the girls, continue moving to avoid blockages and if the weather was bad, the girls would not be shown, quote unquote, and no photographs were allowed. The girls were known that they were watched because they could hear screams and laughter. The one-way screens didn't fully block out the visitors and it said it acted more like a frosted glass, so like you could see a shape behind it. You know the noise. Approximately 3,000 people per day visited the observation gallery that surrounded the 3,000. 3,000. In 1934. Well, this is probably no 1936.
Speaker 2:To view the playground.
Speaker 1:Yes, almost 3 million people walked through between 1936 and 1943. Their dad set up a souvenir shop. The souvenirs had pictures of the five sisters, autographs, framed photographs, spoons, cups, plates, plaques, candy bars, books, postcards and dolls. The dolls of the five girls even outsold whatever doll was popular back in that day. I can't remember what it was, I didn't write it down.
Speaker 2:Did the mom and dad get to interact with them routinely?
Speaker 1:They could, they were allowed to go over there, but they did not go over there consistently.
Speaker 2:I mean, I know they have five other kids too.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Gosh.
Speaker 1:So another thing that they had, which was free for the public and it was placed in bins, were stones from the area that were claimed to have the magical power of fertility, and it would say that the bins had to be refilled almost every single day, and there was women who would go up to their mom and touch the mom in hopes that the fertility her fertility would rub off on them.
Speaker 1:I think the dad kind of did something like to exploit that as well. So quintland became ontario's biggest tour attraction of the area, surpassing the Canadian side of Niagara Falls. It was only beat by like three things in North America and even several Hollywood stars visited Quintland. So the nursery was eventually converted. So the girls moved up from there at nine, like I said, and the nursery was eventually converted into an accredited school where the sisters finished their secondary education along with 10 Roman Catholic girls from the area who were chosen to attend Later years. The hospital was used by the recluses of Corbeil as a convent. So other things that the sisters were advertised with, along with Dr Defoe they were used for commercial products including carob, corn syrup, quaker oats, lysol, palm oil, palm, olive Palm olive, it's the dish soap.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it is. I don't know why I couldn't say that right. Colgate, aluminum goods manufacturing Company, behab, corn Syrup, canada Starch Company, carnation Milk, colgate, palmolive Peak Company, which makes sense, corn Products, refining and Crown Brand Corn Syrup and Baby Ruth. They also promote the sales of condensed milk, toothpaste, disinfectant, candy bars and many other products.
Speaker 2:So pretty much everything on the market.
Speaker 1:Yeah, when they were children and this money was supposed to be going to their trust fund.
Speaker 2:Supposed to be. Are you getting to that?
Speaker 1:I am eventually. So I said they left the hospital when they were nine and by 1939, defoe no, I think they actually got custody back before that Sorry, I got my ears mixed up. The doctor resigned as a guardian and the dad was gaining more support to have his family reunited, and so finally they were able to regain custody. The Catholic Church and the French-speaking communities in both Quebec and Ontario pressured the government to give the dad custody back. So the pressure stemmed from the fact that the parents had never agreed to the removal of the quintuplets from their custody. So they used public opinion a lot. Oh no, it was nine years. So finally, in 1943, they were able to get custody and they succeeded after Dr Defoe retired.
Speaker 1:Ok, this is what comes to their siblings. So siblings usually team up against their parents, right, Like that's just what we do, right? So, unfortunately, their siblings felt like strangers. They distanced themselves from the children because they hadn't seen each other in nine years. They struggled to connect, and then also the quintuplets spoke French, which was the nursery rules, and all their siblings spoke English. So that's yes. And so the parents also treated them differently at home. They treated them as one person and five different bodies instead of five different little girls. And, yes, they often lectured them about the trouble they were causing the family by just existing. No Uh-huh.
Speaker 2:Okay, take them back.
Speaker 1:I know, I know that's so awful, absolutely awful. The girls said that they were physically abused by the hands of their mother and they were unaware. So, oh my gosh, I can't believe. I left this part out. So they don't live in the farmhouse anymore. The family doesn't. They literally built a mansion for the family to live in.
Speaker 2:I don't think I wrote down what their house was like Did they build that because the girls were coming home, or that was before?
Speaker 1:It was built because the girls were coming home, or that was before it was built, because the girls were coming home A little extra, though, and so they didn't know that their house, the food, the series of cars the family were purchasing were paid for by the money the girls had earned, and they called their time in the big house quote unquote the saddest home we ever knew.
Speaker 2:Oh my gosh, they went from being an exhibit to the saddest home they ever knew, mm-hmm.
Speaker 1:And then their dad. Their dad kind of got a little crazy. He was resentful and suspicious of outsiders, he said, because he lost custody of the girls. And so in 1995, the three surviving sisters at that time reported that their dad had sexually abused them during their teenage years. You could see one of the daughters that would constantly wear a turtleneck and she said that she dressed to be as modest as possible and not show parts of her body.
Speaker 2:Wait, how old were they at this time?
Speaker 1:Well, yvonne told a story about when she was 13. She felt pressured to undress in front of her dad. Her dad rubbed this liniment all over her and then he told Emily that he was going to have to apply it to her too. They didn't like going on car rides with their dad and felt the need to dress extra conservatively on these car rides. During the car rides, the girls were squished up front with their dad as the backseats were out, and he allegedly French kissed them and put his fingers on their blouses.
Speaker 2:Oh my.
Speaker 1:God.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:Just awful, Awful, awful, awful. So they, when they turned 18, they all decided that they wanted to get out of the house, and I think I don't have that part. I think it was Emily that decided to leave first. I can't remember, but one decided to leave first and slowly the rest of them followed. Three of them got married and had children. One of them joined a convent and then the other one, I think she, became a librarian. So the money in their trust fund decreased through spending on marriage houses, child support and divorce. The ones that got married also got divorced. It was discovered that their trust fund contained less money than what was made from advertisements and photographs and instead of the government paying for research, food and travel expenses for photographers and filmmakers, the payment came from the quintuplets trust fund. The government, the government did that.
Speaker 2:Oh Well, you knew that was going to happen.
Speaker 1:Yes, the girls were able to go against the government, and the government responded like, hey, we'll give you $2,000 a month. And there was a huge uproar of like how is that even fair $2,000 a month? Because the girls were living on $7734 a month living all together. And so, finally, with the public opinion up in arms, I think they settled on $4 million for the girls to have from the government.
Speaker 2:So $4 million split between five, when the doctor made three million.
Speaker 1:Yeah, okay. So one of the great things about being identical quintuplets is that they always have their sisters by their side, no matter what. When they moved to Montreal, yvonne and Cecile went to nursing school together, and Annette and Marie became roommates at the university, and so, yeah, so Emily went to the convent. Emily died at age 20 as a result of a seizure. She had had seizures before, but she asked at the convent she wasn't supposed to be left alone. Well, one of the sisters that was with her went to mass and left her alone, and during that she fell over onto her pillow and suffocated to the seizure, oh my gosh, very, very, very sad.
Speaker 1:In 1973, marie was living alone in an apartment and her sisters were worried about her. After not hearing from her for several days, the doctor went to the home and found her in bed and she'd been dead for a couple of days and she had a blood clot found on her brain. How old was she? It was 1970., so they were born in 34. What? 35, 40,?
Speaker 2:late 30s.
Speaker 1:Yeah, late 30s. Yvonne was alive, I think. She just passed away in like 1998. She lived for a while. Annette and Cecile still live together. Yes, as of May of this year they are 91 years old and they are living together outside of Montreal.
Speaker 2:You've got to be kidding me.
Speaker 1:Yeah, isn't that amazing? That is crazy. Yes, yes, yes, yes, I love that. It's not like it's sad, but the sisters that's why my quote was sisters function as safety nets in a chaotic world, simply by being there for each other I love that, yeah, it's. I had never heard story, but it was such a big deal in the 1930s and like we're got out of.
Speaker 1:There was people I was reading stories about people from Australia coming to visit them and then there was a lady from I think she was from Ohio that wanted to go back and be the home because she'd always wanted to see inside the nursery, because she went to go visit it when she was a little girl and she actually got kicked out of the observatory because she was throwing a tantrum because she wanted to go in and go play with the little girls that were playing and they the monitors or however made her leave. So she went back when she was an older lady, sweet girl.
Speaker 2:I know, okay, so all right, episode one back on track, sister. I mean, I don't know what episode this actually really is. But yeah, sisters, we're going to do this, not every week, heck, no, our goal is every other week, and I think we said that maybe last September, when we recorded one episode and that was it, and nothing happened. We're really bad with telling time and it feels like it's been what we meant was every other year.
Speaker 1:We'll try to stick to it.
Speaker 2:Our goal is every other week, so we will be back in two weeks. Yeah, with another sister story another sister situation another sister situation A-S-S. A-s-s. Alright, is that it Bye? Oh wait, bees. Do we do that still? Was that annoying? I don't know, it was hard to think of stuff. It was kind of funny, but it might be annoying. Okay, I'll go first. We're doing it. Oh no, okay. Be a sister Be, oh no, okay. Be a sister Be, oh no. Be a good parent oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:Don't be taking advantage of sweet little babies.
Speaker 2:Don't be giving your money to the government.
Speaker 1:Stop paying your taxes, everybody.
Speaker 2:Stop paying your taxes. That's Jessica. That's Jessica. I'd like to clarify that as Jessica. All right, thanks for joining us. Thank you, and we will fumble through this again in two weeks. Bye Bye, in two weeks. Bye, bye.
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