• Cecile Dionne, quintuplet, 91

    From David Carson@davidc@wa-wd.com to alt.obituaries on Sun Aug 3 19:08:30 2025
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    "I resented everyone for the way we were brought up."

    https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/world/canada/cecile-dionne-dead.html
    By Jane Gross
    Published July 31, 2025
    Updated Aug. 2, 2025
    Cocile Dionne, who with her siblings found fame as the first quintuplets
    known to have survived infancy and who, of the five, was the most
    outspoken about the suffocating effects of celebrity, died on Monday in Montreal. She was 91.

    A family spokesman, Carlo Tarini, announced the death, in a hospital, on Thursday night.

    The Dionne sistersA birth and survival in rural Ontario may have been miraculous and a balm to a beleaguered public shuffling through the depths
    of the Depression, but her life was miserable.

    oI resented everyone for the way we were brought up,o she said in an
    interview on her 50th birthday. oBecause of the accident of birth, we were
    not considered people.o

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