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  "thread": {
    "id": 776,
    "subject": "Aunt Jeanine, is she or isn't she?",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "1998-06-14T11:04:33+00:00",
    "last": "1998-06-14T11:04:33+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0013-0044@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Alice Turner",
        "address": "al at interport.net"
      },
      "date": "1998-06-14T11:04:33+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Aunt Jeanine, is she or isn't she?",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
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          "text": "Robert Borski is fond of his theory that Aunt Jeanine is actually an abo,\nand to that end has \"hung fifty pounds of theory on nothing.\" I had\nconsidered a point by point refutation, but I really don't think it's worth\nit--the theory is just too fantastical, especially when, on her very first\nappearance. we see Aunt Jeanine manipulating a tool, the large key to her\nroom. Her withered legs aren't evidence of anything.\n\n\nMoreover, we're told over and over that she is #5's aunt, that Maitre is her\nbrother, that Mr. Million started the line. Actually, though Maitre is\ntechnically her brother, she seems to be considerably older than he, and\ncould belong to the generation ahead of him.\n\nHere's a little chart:\n\nGW1 = Mr. Million (#5's great grandfather, we have no reason to doubt)\nGW2 = gramps + Jeanine\nGW3 = Maitre\nGW4 = #5          + David\n\nWhy the disparity in numbers? Why indeed? Jeanine alludes to it too: \"That\nnumber's either far too low or too high.\" It's one too high.\n\nJeanine seems to be in her 60s when introduced (#5 is 12). Maitre is \"almost\n50\" (according to Marsch) when #5 is 18. Jeanine is thus in her late 70s or\nabout 80 when she dies (#5 is 27)."
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          "text": "Here's what I feel is the strongest point in my argument--my contention\nthat Jeannine is the baby in the picture of the photo, which would make her\n140 years old."
        },
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          "depth": 2,
          "text": "Notice how when he sees the picture Number Five assumes the child is a\nmale, but has difficulty >seeing the face because it's nearly smothered by\nwhite wool blankets.\nRecall as well Number Five's description of Aunt Jeannine as the Black\nQueen\nin chess: \"a chess queen neither sinister nor beneficent, and Black only\nas distinguished from\nsome White Queen I would never encounter.\" The White Queen Number Five\nnever encounters, I >submit, is the real Jeannine--clearly linked by color\nwith the white wool blanket that smother's the baby's face in the picture."
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          "text": "What an argument! Because Jeanine wears black and the baby white they are\none and the same! Well, Robert, Jeanine is showing #5 *his own* mother, not\nhers, and the baby is thus clearly Mr. Million, the head of the line.\nJeanine, like David, is an \"outcropping,\" not a clone, with a separate\nmother. Pfffft, splat, there's your theory. What's your Vironese name?\n\n-alga-"
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