The premise of this story is that it is about a group of women whose names are not found in history books. If you look for their husbands and fathers, you can piece together a story about them, but not about these women.
These women's lives were seemingly inconsequential, and they seemed to fall off the face of the earth once their marriages or their husbands died.
This breaks my heart, honestly. They had so much to say, and the things that are not said are so much more telling than the things that are said.
I have been able to find out more about the breeds of their dogs and the guests at their bridge games than I have been able to about who they were and what they wanted out of life.
These women lived and died and made an impact on the society around them. Unfortunately, I don't know what those things were. The stories you are about to read are who I think they were, but not who they really were - for I will probably never know who they really were.
I will not be using their husbands' names. Those names have been published enough. I will also not be using their last names, but the first names of these women are their real first names. I do not wish to alter any actual history, so it must be said that this is loosely based on truth. I don't know the truth, but I do know enough to piece together some interesting stories.
Please come back and re-read as you can. As I piece together this story, I may learn more about truth, but more likely I will learn more about the characters as they become alive to me. The purpose of this blog at this moment is just to give me a place to organize the stories before I publish them.
I am excited and scared to take on this journey, not only about women that I believe were remarkable, but also to learn about times and places I have never been.
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