• My grandmother, Kitty, told Theresa this story on the evening of our debs. Theresa was wearing a green dress, and Kitty remarked that she had never worn green. Of course Theresa asked why, and this is what she was told.
  • When my great-grandmother was pregnant with her third child, Kitty was five. She bought her a green dress to be worn on the day the baby was born. On that day, my grandmother's youngest sister Molly was born. But her mother and Molly's twin were lost. My grandmother never wore the green dress, and said that she would never wear anything green for the rest of her life. She never has.

^ Tom's grandmother's death.