“I have an announcement to make. I am going to enter a convent and serve God. I have thought of it for a long time. I have prayed, and I have decided. I care nothing for the things of the world. I feel I belong in a convent. It is the only place where I…
“I prefer to remain a child in the woods and unattached. Nature means so much to me.” 605: Émilie Dionne The Fourth of Five of the First Set of Quintuplets Known to Survive Infancy Born: 28 May 1934, Callander, Ontario, Canada Died: 6 August 1954, Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts, Laurentides Region, Quebec, Canada The quints were born two…
“I didn’t know a nickel from a quarter until I left home for the first time at age eighteen.” 603: Annette Dionne The Second of Five of the First Set of Quintuplets Known to Survive Infancy Born: 28 May 1934, Callander, Ontario, Canada The quints were born two months premature; their parents having no idea…
“I don’t want to think about little Yvonne. No. I put an end to it. I want to live in the present, that’s all.” 602: Yvonne Dionne The First of Five of the First Set of Quintuplets Known to Survive Infancy Born: 28 May 1934, Callander, Ontario, Canada Died: 23 June 2001, Montreal, Canada The…
“We were obliged to do so many things, so often, that in our head, we didn’t feel that we were able to say, ‘No, not this time, another time.'” 604: Cécile Dionne The Third of Five of the First Set of Quintuplets Known to Survive Infancy Born: 28 May 1934, Callander, Ontario, Canada The quints…