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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Dedication
Epigraph
Prologue
Part One: 1 in 57,000,000 Births
Chapter 1: Quintuplets Born to Farm Wife
Chapter 2: Canadian Woman Gives Birth to Five Girls; All Are Doing Well
Chapter 3: Country Doctor Struggles to Save Lives of Canadian Mother and Quintuplet Girls
Chapter 4: Progress of Quintuplets Amazes Medical World
Chapter 5: Star Sends Assistance to Mother and Five Babes
Chapter 6: Quintuplets May Go on Exhibit at Chicago Fair
Chapter 7: Quintuplets’ Father to Get $100 a Week While All Live
Chapter 8: Home Turned into Hospital
Chapter 9: Parents of Quintuplets Dazed by Sudden Fame, Offers, Gifts
Chapter 10: Too Many Showmen After Quintuplets
Chapter 11: Dionnes Now Have to Guard Quintuplets from Tourist Horde
Chapter 12: Quintuplet Hospital Started Near Home of Parents
Chapter 13: Parents of Babies Plan for Future
Chapter 14: Parents’ Wishes to Be Ignored
Part Two: Quint-Mania
Chapter 15: Ontario Adopts Five World-Famous Little Girls
Chapter 16: Most Famous of Mothers One of the Unhappiest
Chapter 17: The Private Life of the Dionne Quints
Chapter 18: Quins Lose Stage Fright, 2500 Gawkers a Day
Chapter 19: Quintuplet Frolics Play to “Standing Room Only”
Chapter 20: The Threat to the Quints’ Happiness
Chapter 21: Dionne Endorsements, Incorporated
Chapter 22: Dr. Dafoe Himself
Chapter 23: Science Designs a Life for the Dionnes
Chapter 24: Home or Science? The Dionnes’ Case Debated
Chapter 25: Just One Big Unhappy Family
Chapter 26: Guardians of Dionnes Seek Better Relations with Tots’ Parents
Chapter 27: “Felt Right at Home with King and Queen”
Chapter 28: Dionne Suing Dafoe for Libel; New York Photo Basis of Action
Chapter 29: Dionne Wins Control Over His Five Girls
Part Three: Finding Home
Chapter 30: Quints Will Soon Move to New Home
Chapter 31: Dionne Quints Get Schoolmates, Nine Specially Selected Girls
Chapter 32: Dionne Quints 16 Now, but No Dates, Says Stern Papa
Chapter 33: Famous Dionne Quintuplets to Be Separated for First Time This Fall
Chapter 34: Four Quints Dry-Eyed and Close to Shock
Chapter 35: Four Dionne Sisters Start Life Anew
Chapter 36: Boys? Million Dollars? Dionnes Shrug Shoulders
Chapter 37: The Dionnes: A Fight for Happiness
Chapter 38: Quints’ Story Causes New Wound
Chapter 39: The Babies of Quintland Now: Broke and Bitter
Epilogue: Dionne Visit Creates New Memories
Photo Insert
Afterword
A Note on Dialogue
References
Acknowledgments
Notes
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