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Before you read this story, I wanted to post this to clear up any questions and/or inaccuracies as best I could so things would make more sense later on and I wouldn't get tons of messages of corrections of my chronology and/or confusion from it. I created a list of birthdays to explain the ages. Time is not very detailed in the books, so things will be a little inaccurate. The years of the births are based on the ages from the beginning of Rilla of Ingleside, because the war offers some dates, and from there, I just did some estimates and lots of thinking.

Again, I switched dates around, or made some things happen a little later or earlier so they could be included in the story (such as Faith not learning about Miranda and Joe's war-wedding, which happened in 1916, even though she left as a V.A.D. in 1917 [or so I've heard, I could be wrong]). I'm sorry if this somehow is confusing or offensive to anyone, but like I said, time in the story itself is not very clear, leaving us fanfiction writers on our own.

(This will take awhile, and may be a little repetitive, so please bear with me).

Here are the birthdays of the Rainbow Valley children (the ages that I've listed are in age order by birth and how old they are at the beginning of my story, which starts in June 1919)—

June 12th, 1892 – Jem's birthday (26; nearly 27)

May 29th, 1893 – Jerry's birthday (just turned 26)

November 14th, 1893 – Walter's birthday (would have been 25)

May 11th, 1894 – Faith's birthday (just turned 25)

June 30th, 1895 – Nan and Di's birthday (23; nearly 24)

September 16th, 1895 – Una's birthday (23 turning 24)

February 17th, 1897 – Shirley's birthday (22)

March 21st, 1897 – Carl's birthday (22)

July 17th, 1899 – Rilla's birthday (19; nearly 20)

Here are three other birthdates that are important, and are also completely made up (if anyone has any idea as to Bruce's age at the end of the war, please say so)—

April 15th, 1893 – Ken Ford's birthday (26)

November 14th, 1895 – Persis Ford's birthday (23)

August 22nd, 1908 – Bruce's birthday (nearly 12)*

* — At the end of Rainbow Valley, Jem is roughly 15, as he is going to begin attending Queen's in the fall, making Jerry and Walter 14, Faith 13, Nan, Di and Una 12, Shirley and Carl 10, and Rilla 8. By the time Reverend Meredith and Rosemary get married and have Bruce, it's roughly a year later, making all the children one year older. I just happened to use Faith's birth year (1894) and added 14, or how old she would've have approximately been when Bruce was born, and got 1908, making him 6 or so when Rilla of Ingleside begins, 10 when the war ends, and nearly 11 when Faith returns at the beginning of the story.

Well, that's about it when it comes to birthdates. If you have any comments, corrections or questions, please message me. I'm happy to make any dates more accurate if there is something key I was not aware of. Last, I am aware that some events in the story and the books may be contradictory or unrealistic or didn't happen at all, but this is just a fanfiction story of my imagination, and I used some events that may have happened earlier or later because they were necessary for the story or I just wanted to include them. I am not the wonderful L.M. Montgomery, so I do not know everything when it comes to these characters, story and the plotline.

This was a very long ramble. I'm done now. Hope this helps!

WT