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| | Free-Essays.us - Dionne Quintuplets |
 | | After the quintuplets became wards of the Ontario government, they were put on display in what they called Quintland, where people could come and see the quintuplets. | | | Dr.Allan Roy Dafoe was the doctor who delivered the quintuplets; he claimed that because of him the five baby girls were alive. | | | She died at the age of thirty-six in her Montreal apartment from a blood clot in her brain. |
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| | Research Paper Presentation |
| | I believe the Dionnes were child workers, I will look at how having these young girls work was going against the norm in most societies in the 1920s and 1930s. | | | Many of these issues have been part of the class discussions that we have had in this class and also in History 476. | | | In an attempt to come to this conclusion I will look at the motives behind raising the children in this manner. |
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http://web.mala.bc.ca/helenbrown/History476Discussion/0000002f.htm
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| | Dionne Quintuplets |
| | The move followed inquiries by family members over the misspending of the quintuplets' money by the province. | | | The Ontario government took the quints from their parents and placed them under the care of Dr Allan Dafoe, the doctor who had delivered them. | | | They were the world's first quintuplets to survive, though they were tiny and very frail at first. |
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| | This is Cheshire CommuniGate More than Four: |
| | Sharing the spotlight with the children was Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe, who delivered the babies on that historical day and later became their guardian. | | | There were 4 pages with 63 different outfits the children could cut out and dress the Quins into. | | | As the 1940’s began, the public’s interest in the Dionne Quintuplets would start to decline. |
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| | Dionne quintuplets - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Marie (died February 27, 1970 of a blood clot in the brain) | | | After a nine-year court fight between the government and their father, the quintuplets were returned to their family in 1943. | | | The next year, the surviving girls alleged they were victims of sexual abuse at the hands of their father, and that the Roman Catholic Church urged them to cope by wearing thick coats. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dionne_Quintuplets
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| | Dionne Quintuplets |
| | Fearing private exploitation, the Ontario government removed them from their parents and placed them in a specially built hospital under the care of Dr Allan Roy DAFOE, who had delivered them. | | | With only 2 previous cases on record, they were the only quintuplets to survive for more than a few days. | | | This miracle, plus their baby cuteness, the poverty of their French Canadian parents and the controversy over their guardianship, made them the sensation of the 1930s. |
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http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0002306
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| | Dionne quints ask Ontario for compensation - Dec 03, 1997 08:05 PM EST |
| | In a statement, Cecile Dionne expressed gratitude to the people of Ontario for their show of support. | | | The young Dionne quints were put on public display in the 1930s. | | | In the 1930s, the Ontario government passed an act that took the quints from their family and then put them on public display as a tourist attraction. |
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http://www.newsworld.cbc.ca/archive/html/1997/12/03/dionne.html
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| | The author also questions whether measures as dramatic as guardianship, which had never been adopted elsewhere in Canada, would have been taken if the family had been English-Canadian and protestant. | | | Although the Dionne quintuplets are the best known Franco-Ontarians in history, up until now, no French-Canadian researcher had studied their history. | | | Gervais qualified as a finalist for his publication of Les Jumelles Dionne et l'Ontario français (1934-1944) (The Dionne Quintuplets and French Ontario, 1934-1944). |
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http://www.laurentian.ca/?file=newsrelease/2001/september/sept10_historian_e.php
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| | Publisher description for Library of Congress control number 00270174 |
| | It was journalist Ellie Tesher's heartfelt coverage of the sisters' plight that led to a public outcry, ultimately forcing Ontario's Harris government to come up with the money they had pledged not to give. | | | A sensitive and candid inside account of the struggles of the Dionne quintuplets, from "million-dollar babies" to impoverished adults, and their ultimate triumph in the battle for compensation after years of exploitation. | | | Library of Congress subject headings for this publication: Dionne quintuplets |
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http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/random041/00270174.html
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| | Dionne Quintuplets |
| | in a recent interview, Annette Dionne blamed both Ontario officials and the Roman Catholic Church for allowing them to be treated like ``a commercial product'' | | | the identical quintuplets were taken away from their parents and made wards of the Ontario government, under Dr. Dafoe's supervision | | | Annette Dionne, when interviewed, showed little rancor toward Dr. Dafoe, saying life in the nursery where they were kept was relatively pleasant |
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http://particle.physics.ucdavis.edu/bios/Dionne.html
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| | A Life of Their Own |
| | Examine one or more of the sites and, using the “focus for viewing” question, present your findings to the class. | | | The women confirm these allegations in an interview with Radio-Canada, but their other siblings hotly deny the charges as an insult to the memory of their deceased parents. | | | The following year a book on the quints by Jean-Yves Soucy, written with the collaboration of the surviving Dionne sisters, claims that the girls were sexually abused by their father and beaten by their mother after they were returned to parental custody in 1943. |
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http://www.cbc.ca/newsinreview/apr98/dione/life.htm
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| | Madame Alexander Compo Dionne Quints |
| | Though these babies have survived all these years, their outfits did not. | | | Other companies made "quints" but could not call them Dionne. | | | Any crazing that is present is very minor. |
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http://www.dollinfo.com/Store/dolls/MAXDionnes.htm
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| | JWA - Photographs - Dionne Quintuplet Dolls |
| | For a footnote: Jewish Women's Archive, "JWA - Photographs - Dionne Quintuplet Dolls," . | | | When the Dionne quintuplets were born in Canada in 1934, she quickly secured a licensing agreement. | | | Why was it a good idea for Alexander to get the license to produce dolls of the Dionne quintuplets? |
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| | 1934 - Free Encyclopedia |
| | June 30 - The Nazi SA camp Oranienburg becomes national camp, taken over by the SS | | | May 28 - Near Callender, Ontario, the Dionne quintuplets are born to Olivia and Elzire Dionne later becoming the first quintuplets to survive infancy. | | | May 28 - world's first surviving quintuplets, the Dionne quintuplets, born at Corbeil, Ontario, Canada |
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| | The Official Carlson Septuplets Page |
| | I went to the local library and looked up all I could find on the subject. | | | On a related note, the Dionnes are believed to have been conceived as sextuplets. | | | As I mentioned earlier, I modeled their story off of the Dionne Quints' story, and they were the only set of quintuplets (not counting the Diligentis born in the 1940s in Argentina, who were kept something of a secret by their parents to avoid the kind of attention the Dionnes recieved) until they were adults. |
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http://www.skygawker.com/septuplets/faq.html
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| | TIME Magazine Archive Article -- ADVICE FROM THE DIONNE QUINTUPLETS -- Dec. 01, 1997 |
| | TIME Magazine Archive Article -- ADVICE FROM THE DIONNE QUINTUPLETS -- Dec. 01, 1997 | | | The media got wind of the event when the father called the local newspaper to ask whether a birth announcement for five babies would cost the same as one. | | | Before the McCaugheys, the most famous multiple births--by far--were the Dionne quintuplets, five identical girls born to a French-Canadian farmer and his wife in Corbeil, Ont., on May 28, 1934. |
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http://www.time.com/time/archive/printout/0,23657,987457,00.html
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| | Robert Dionne Family (text version) |
| | (also known as Willie Joseph DIONNE, Wildy D. Born: 27 October 1898, | | | Married: 11 November 1897, William (Willie) Olivier DIONNE, | | | As far as I can tell, DIONNE was GUYONNE in France. |
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http://home.att.net/~RGDIONNE/dionne4.htm
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| | Allan Roy Dafoe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Dafoe was awarded an Order of the British Empire for his work with the Dionne Quintuplets. | | | This was generally approved of at the time, but later generated criticism for the sideshow atmosphere it produced. | | | The government of Ontario gave Dr. Dafoe joint guardianship of the Quintuplets. |
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| | Dionne Quintuplets - Simple English Wikipedia |
| | The Dionne Quintuplets were the first quintuplets (five babies born at the same time from the same mother) to survive after being born. | | | They were born in Ontario, Canada on May 28, 1934 to Elzire and Oliva Dionne. |
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| | THE MILLION DOLLAR BABIES AND THE MEDIA: REPRESENTATIONS OF THE... / Mary Vipond |
| | Rather, Helena detests Oliva because he has publicly embarrassed her by asserting his paternal authority within his own home. | | | Oliva and Elzire have never been the greedy imbeciles that the irresponsible press has portrayed them to be. | | | Here most notably one must mention Lillian Barker, described by Pierre Berton in his key book The Dionne Years as a “flamboyant Southerner,” who wrote for the New York Daily News, spoke French, and became an ally of the family early in 1935. |
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| | Travel: Curiosity and the quints |
| | The Dionne quintuplets are shown a few weeks before their 9th birthday in May 1943 as they traveled from their home in Ontario to Superior, Wis., to launch five new Liberty ships during World War II. | | | But the Dionnes' birth and survival were such symbols of hope in those crushing times that they galvanized the public interest. | | | They wrote two books outlining what they said was the mental, emotional and even sexual abuse they had suffered by being taken from their family and then, years later, being dropped back into the middle of that group. |
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| | heroines.ca, Women in Canadian History |
| | Docudrama focusing on Dr. All Dafoe and his involvement with the Dionne Quintuplets. | | | Listen to a CBC Radio clip about the Dionne Quintuplets, broadcast May 28, 1936. | | | Dafoe soon took charge of the babies, the Ontario government secured guardianship, and the Dionne quintuplets were moved to the Dafoe Hospital and Nursery. |
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| | Dionne Quintuplets - "On This Day" - CBC Archives |
| | The government offered the quints a $4-million lump-sum payment, which the quints accepted after having rejected a previous offer of only $2000 a month. | | | Dionne Quintuplets - "On This Day" - CBC Archives | | | Between 1934 and 1943, about 3 million people visit Quintland. |
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| | Antique Reproduction Dolls - Dionne Quintuplets |
| | Their story has intrigued many, even those who were born after these little ones were the talk of two nations. | | | The Dionne Quintuplets captured the hearts of millions when they were born. | | | Because quintuplets are so rare, they were a novelty, put on display by the Canadian government. |
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http://www.sowatzka.com/antiqueREPRO/quints.htm
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| | Dionne Quints Ahnentafel |
| | Louis CARON was born on 23 Dec 1715 L'Islet. | | | Premier Mike Harris said his government won't bargain any further. | | | She married Olivier DIONNE, son of Joseph DIONNE and Henriette BOISVERT, on 3 Apr 1893 Biddeford. |
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| | Q is for the Dionne Quintuplets |
| | Born in 1934 to Elzire and Oliva Dionne in a small town in Ontario, the Dionne Quintuplets were taken from their family and cared for by the government. | | | Later, The Dionne Quintuplets went their separate ways to lead separate lives, but the surviving sisters have now reunited and written a book about their experiences. | | | is for Quintuplets, as in "The Dionne Quintuplets", the first quintuplets known to have survived infancy. |
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| | Yvonne Dionne |
| | one of the Dionne quintuplets who was born in Callendar, Ontario. | | | The survivors of the Dionne Quintuplets' strange life turn 60. | | | The sibling group was the first set of quintuplets on record to survive longer than a few days. |
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| | Kovels Online - Dionne Quintuplets |
| | Dionne quintuplets were born in Canada on May 28, 1934. | | | The publicity about their birth and their special status as wards of the Canadian government made them famous throughout the world. | | | Quintuplets & Dr. DeFoe, Signed Allan Roy DeFoe, 1938 |
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| | Mystery of the Month |
| | The Dionne Quintuplets, born in 1934 in Canada, were the first quintuplets ever born to all survive. | | | Olivier and Rosalie were parents of Oliva Dionne who married Elzire Legros 15 Sep 1925, Corbeil, Ontario. | | | Joseph and Marguerite were parents of Joseph Dionne who married Henriette Boisvert (Charles/Henriette Richmon) 24 Nov 1863, L'Avenir, Cte. |
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| | Donald Brittain - Man of Film Excerpt |
| | Responding, Brittain said, "We know where the last remaining quintuplets live, and we could have filmed them without their knowing. | | | Interestingly, the completed work, The Dionne Quintuplets, was one of the few documentaries, which did not carry a Brittain credit as the writer. | | | The film, entitled, The Dionne Quintuplets, contained all the elements of a great yarn-joy, sadness, depression and degradation, romance and exploitation-the latter, being something reviewer, Twila Burfield, of The Albertan, raised when she asked how Brittain could make a film about exploitation without being accused of exploitation himself? |
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| | Montreal Mirror - Chris Barry's People |
| | Meeting the surviving Dionne sisters and having his heart promptly broken after learning the truth about their sad, sad tale, he decided to abandon his work in the corporate milieu and devote himself entirely to seeking justice for those fucked over by "the system" and without resources to fend for themselves. | | | Bio: This South Shore heartbreaker had been working as a marketing specialist for the Montreal Alouettes, when, approximately 10 years ago, he was approached by a local publisher to work his media magic on a book about the Dionne quintuplets. | | | What he did to help the Dionne freaks: Used his media smarts to publicize their plight, eventually getting the U.S. television networks, Time, Newsweek and the wire services onto the story. |
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| | NewStandard: 11/24/97 |
| | Three movies were made of their lives and Dionne dolls were the rage of the 1930s. | | | They were taken away from their impoverished French-Canadian parents and became wards of the state in 1935. | | | Conceived before the era of fertility drugs, the five identical sisters were born on May 28, 1934, in Ontario, Canada. |
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http://www.s-t.com/daily/11-97/11-24-97/b07wn082.htm
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| | Dionne QUINTUPLETS : astrology, horoscope, planets, Map of the Heavens, Interactive Chart |
| | Depending of the fact that the time of birth is known or not, 6 or 11 planets distributions and planets dominants have been computed for the natal chart of Dionne QUINTUPLETS. | | | Astrology and Planets for Dionne QUINTUPLETS : You can try this Free Website Translator to translate the french texts in english, just copy and paste the last address. | | | Only 6 diagrams out of 11 are displayed, and precision of these computations is of course not of the same level than those for the case of the known time of the event. |
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| | CNN - The Dionne quintuplets: A Depression-era freak show - November 19, 1997 |
| | "It wasn't human," Cecile Dionne told The (London) Independent in a 1995 interview. | | | Born May 28, 1934, to poor, French-speaking, Catholic parents, the Dionne quints were at least two months premature, and together they weighed less than 14 pounds. | | | (CNN) -- The Dionne quintuplets were the miracle babies of their time -- a bright story in the depth of the Depression. |
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http://www.cnn.com/US/9711/19/dionne.quints
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| | Re: Dionne Quints -- How R You???? |
| | Contact me with any of your questions about the Dionne Quintuplets. | | | Contact me with any of your questions about the >Dionne Quintuplets. | | | I am very interested in the Dionne Quintuplets and have spent several years going to websites and now am easily agitated when I visit a website with incorrect information regarding them. |
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| | Pride of the Inland Seas - Duluth Seaway Port Authority |
| | Ontario in May 1934, they were the first quintuplets in history to survive. | | | ’s famous Dionne quintuplets to officially christen the five ships. | | | History’s first surviving quintuplets, the 9-year-old Dionne sisters made their first trip outside of Canada in May 1943 to christen five ships launched on the same day at Superior’s Butler Shipyards. |
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| | The Dionne Quintuplets |
| | The Dionne Quintuplets were born on May 28th in 1934, into an already large Canadian farm family -- they were the first quintuplets ever to survive. | | | They were the miracle babies, delivered by a country doctor, Allen DaFoe, and almost immediately separated from their parents -- in part out of fear that their mother and father, Elziere and Oliva, might bring dangerous germs to the tiny infants -- or so the official explanation went. | | | Those are the eight-year-old Dionne Quintuplets, singing for a Canadian war bond drive in 1942. |
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http://www.recess.ufl.edu/transcripts/2004/0528.shtml
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| | The 1930's |
| | Dionne Quints - Here you will find digitized historical information about the Dionne Quintuplets,including a timeline, digital collections, and information about the museums and libraries owning the original artifacts. | | | In addition to using books and encyclopedias to find out about 1930's, why not also use the power of the Internet? | | | The Dionne quintuplets: A Depression-era freak show - The Dionne quintuplets were the miracle babies of their time -- a bright story in the depth of the Depression. |
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| | North Bay & District Chamber of Commerce - Official Website |
| | The Dionne Quints Museum, is a not for profit institution, operated by the North Bay and District Chamber of Commerce with the co-operation of Annette and Cecile Dionne. | | | Over seventy years ago the world was amazed by the birth of the Dionne Quintuplets on May 28, 1934, in nearby Corbeil. | | | Housing in the original Dionne homestead, the museum contains many artifacts from the Quint’s early days and their growing years. |
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| | Neonatology on the Web: Dionne Quints |
| | This image, which I scanned from a photo found in a Seattle antique store, is of unknown provenance. | | | The Dionne Quintuplets, born in the early 1930's, achieved a remarkable level of notoriety as a result of shrewd marketing by their parents and Dr. Dafoe. |
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| | Did you Know...?: The Dionne Quintuplets |
| | They were the first documented quintuplets to ever survive beyond a few days. | | | Born in Callander, Ontario, the girls became immediate Canadian tourist attractions, and it wasn't long before their visages were sought for endorsement deals. | | | But in 1934, when Annette, Cecile, Emilie, Marie and Yvonne Dionne were born, the five infants with a combined birth weight in the single digits were an instant revelation. |
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| | Rare Baby Dish Dionne Quintuplets Sweet |
| | The Dionne's were so well known and popular in the 30's and 40's and they made such history as one of the first quints born. | | | This would make a wonderful addition to anyones doll, baby dishes and or Dionne collection. | | | This silver tone Dionne Quintuplets baby's feeding bowl is in great condition and highly decorative. |
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http://www.antiqnet.com/detail,rare-baby-dish,102408.html
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| | Cecile and Yvette |
| | Probably Canadian origin, as were the Dionne Quintuplets themselves. | | | Nothing is known of the provenance of this curious needlepoint. | | | The needlepoint shows the Quints' home, as well as the nursery where they grew up on display. |
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http://www.hoopla.org/Cabinet/Needlepoint/DionneQuints.html
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| | Amazon.ca: Quintuplets: Search Results All Products |
| | New and used from CDN$ 13.72 Not yet released | | | Time of their lives: The Dionne tragedy : a true-life fairy tale by John Nihmey (Author) (Hardcover - 1986) | | | The Dionne Years: A Thirties Melodrama by Pierre Berton (Author) (Hardcover - September 1978) |
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http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/index=blended&field-keywords=Quintuplets&store-name=all-product-search
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| | Blogcritics.org: Quintuplets |
| | Collected Studies on the Dionne Quintuplets (Italian American Experience) | | | Fox's best move was to limit the introduction into the quintuplets' early years to a few minutes at the beginning. | | | The show instead joins the family when the 15-year-old quints return with their parents from a shopping spree, fighting over nothing, and setting up the ostensible plot — that their mother wants nothing more than for her miracle babies to stop being so annoying and get along. |
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