...did it bother anyone else that there was never a definite date given for the setting? I thought at first it was maybe the 1920 or 1930's, but then later it seemed to indicate that it was set later than that...how early did anyone even attempt separating conjoined twins?
Out of curiosity I looked up conjoined twin separation and found the account of first successful operation
being carried out in 1689
... but didn't become popular until the early 1950s ...many sets before then were
just left to live out whatever time they had joined together
You still hear about these operations now , but I remember hearing about more of them when I was a kid... I
am thinking maybe with time even though still rare it is not as much of an oddity ... but I know in the late 60s
ever time a set was born you heard it on the national news... remembering this I kinda thought maybe the birth and
separation was publicized when Margaret was born and Miss Winters remembered since both she and Margaret's
father were both in the business of books... but this leaves the question could the mother and father hide this
from Margaret and no one say anything about it to her before she found out on her own
So figured that Margaret was born maybe in the 50s or 60s ... did it say how old she was on her birthday???
gonna have to do a little re-read ... When reading it through first time I figured that Emmaline , Adeline
and Miss Winters were born in the 20s or 30s ...
