Before We Were Yours Flashcards

So that she will not get in trouble

Someone wants Rill/May

Taken to a hotel room

<p>She used to live in the Tennessee's Children Home Society and knows Trent Hurner</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Stevie</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To prevent birth families from finding them</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Judy and May's sisters; they are wearing dresses</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>No, Elliot will think Avery is cheating on her, since she is getting closer to Trent.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>She has been talking to Trent and isn't satisfied.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The family is rich and they live in a fancy house.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Zuma: The maid, Hoy: The maid's husband, Hootsie: The daughter</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>She had babies in the past, but they died.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Be like river food now, worth it</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Beth</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Scorer</p> Signup and view all the answers

<ol> <li>She got a degree in piano performance, and also studied social work and law. 2. Her first job was at the Mississippi Children's Home Society; she was fired from this position for questionable child placing methods. 3. She adopted one child herself, a daughter early in her career.</li> </ol> Signup and view all the answers

<ol> <li>She took children from hospitals at birth, from married/unwed mothers; parents were told that the newborns required medical care/had died. 2. She took children born to inmates at Tennessee mental institutions/prisons. 3. She took children from nursery schools/playgrounds/babysitters.</li> </ol> Signup and view all the answers

<ol> <li>She preferred clients who were wealthy/who were from states other than Tennessee, because then she could get more money from adoptions. 2. Changed names, birth dates, and birth records of children were altered/destroyed to prevent biological families from finding their children.</li> </ol> Signup and view all the answers

<p>She illegally gained at least 1 million dollars while employed by the Tennessee Children's Home.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>She died right when she was about to be exposed after her practices were uncovered.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Baltimore, Maryland, August 3, 1939.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A birth: a baby girl that has died.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The doctor secretly suggests, 'I know of a woman in Memphis.'</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Aiken, SC/ present day.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Avery Stafford, 30, lawyer, works in US attorney's office in DC.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Senator Wells Stafford, 57 years old.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Wells Stafford's press secretary; she keeps his schedule, gives advice, protects him.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>She is having memory loss problems.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The 100th birthday of a resident.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A resident of the nursing home; she grabs onto Avery's arm and says the name Fern.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>May Crandall/Rill Foss.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A Mississippi River bank when she was a child (12 years old).</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Queenie: mom, Briny: dad, Rill: 12 year old daughter, Camellia: 10, Fern: almost 4, Lark: 6, Gabion: 2.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Mom is giving birth, there is a storm outside.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Avery Stafford.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Colon cancer.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<ol> <li>To help the family and especially her father at his job. 2. If things go badly with her dad, she might be in line to run in an election for his job, but she needs to live in the state.</li> </ol> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Nursing home care.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Her bracelet--it has dragonflies on it, it was her grandmother's.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Her sister died and they found May living in their home with dead cats and the sister who died.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Rill Foss.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>On the houseboat with her family.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Stormy.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>She is worried about Queenie.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To take Queenie to the hospital.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Avery.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To retrieve her bracelet.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It is a woman with long curly blonde hair, pregnant and a man with dark hair and a fishing pole.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>No.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Elliot: Avery's fiancé. Bitsy: Elliot's mother, a southern lady hoping for a glamorous wedding.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Silas, a teenage boy.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>That they are in the hospital while Queenie recovers.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Silas--a boy in his early teens who was beaten and ran away at age 9 and has been on his own since then.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Police come to take the children; because they expect to be taken to their parents, they agree to go. Georgia Tann picks the kids up.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A nursing home for the wealthy; it used to be a country club.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>She denies knowing May Crandall but her face tells Avery that she does know her.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To the hospital; they are told they need to get cleaned up before going to the hospital.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>At first, it is described like Sleeping Beauty's Castle; later, it appears prison-like with a fence and all the kids looking unhappy.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>She takes care of the children.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>She changes their names: Rill to May, Camellia to Iris, Lark to Bonnie, Fern to Beth, Gabion to Robby.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>They claim people know them and might not know her fame and money.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Her pictures and appointment books.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>He is a real estate agent in Edisto Island, SC; he hangs up when she says her grandmother's name.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Myers was Grandma Judy's maiden name; the family owns it for a vacation home.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>They are provided smelly cots in the basement and bathed in dirty water.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A man brings candy for the children.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>He isn't the kind of friend you want.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>She will put them in the closet if they are not good.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Her father's work conference.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>See May Crandall, go visit Edisto Island.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<ol> <li>Trent wants to blackmail the family with his secret information. 2. Her grandmother had a relationship before getting married and then gave the baby up for adoption.</li> </ol> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Nothing.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>They are called 'wards' because they have no parents to come for them. Rill believes they are not wards because they have parents.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Tell Mr. Riggs to put poison in the bushes to kill the rabbits and weed the flower bed because Tann is coming; some kids are sick, but no doctor will be called.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>There will be a special viewing to show the children to prospective parents; the '5' are being saved.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>He comes to the house to pick up his son; he collapses on the porch and is left there as Mrs. Murphy refuses to help him.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>James was walking to school with his brother when they were picked up; he has been there ever since.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>She claims the children get the best of everything; only they care about them.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Grandma Judy's favorite place to write anonymous stuff, columns, and poems.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It reveals something about the Tennessee Children's Home Society.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>He is a real estate agent.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It's hosted so that kids can be adopted.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>She says that Lark, Fern, and Rill are not his siblings and his mother died during childbirth.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>He was being adopted by a family.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>She was crying because she fell off the swing. She was taken away and punished.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>People.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>He was adopted; he is a real estate agent.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Trent's son.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The records are about Trent Turner's grandfather, from the Tennessee Children's Home Society.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>She is dead.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To help the children after they are taken away; she asks Mr. Riggs for help.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>She got adopted and her name was changed to Bonnie; Miss Dodd was fired.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>They are cousins.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>She is sent to the basement and told her sister doesn't exist.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>She was adopted.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Silas approaches and tells her that the parents signed the adoption papers and decides to rescue Rill/May.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>She and Trent aren't married; she left Jonah and returned to her ex-husband.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An orphanage for children.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It had a very dark side; the workers were mean, there was no proper food, and some children died.</p> Signup and view all the answers