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Spring-1890

While their house wasn't anything extravagant, it was by far the most comfortable house Peter and Alice had ever lived in. Peter quicky adjusted and he and Alice brought in a stray cat because it was still quite cold. After feeling the warmth of the fireplace, the cat refused to leave.

While introverted with people, Alice absolutely loved animals. She would feed and name strays. Helen had no problem with pets, but she worried Alice would try to take home every animal she saw.

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Backstory

Here we follow the young couple of Peter and Helen Clancy. Peter is an immigrant from Cork County, Ireland who came to the US to work in a factory as a child. Because of this, he never received education past 3rd grade. Helen had a slightly had a more comfortable childhood, having gone to school until 8th grade. After 8th grade Helen worked as a maid for a wealthy family called the landgrabs. Despite Mrs. Landgrabs objection, Mister landgrab promised that if Hellen worked for him for 8 years, he would give her and her future husband some property to live on.

After years of factory work, Peter and his mother moved to a small town in the upper midwest. They were delighted to get away from the smog, smell and chaos of the city. Unfortunately, Peter and Alice (his mother) faced discrimination. Many people in the town did not want immigrants from countries like Ireland, Italy, and Poland because the community wanted itself to be fully protestant. When the first catholic church was built in the town, there were protests from older townspeople.

While Helen isn't particularly religious, she began attending services at this church to meet other immigrants and children and grandchildren of immigrants. It was the only place she felt welcome, as her parents were immigrants as well.

Ellen met Peter after a Christmas eve service in 1888. The two quicky bonded and formed a strong connection, after a year of courtship, Peter proposed to Helen on new years eve of 1899. The two married and settled into a small, but not cramped cabin on the Langrabs property that Helen had been promised by mister Landgrab.

There was only one thing about Peter that drove Helen mad, and that was mother. Peter had been her last (and only surviving) child, and because of this Alice is very protective of him. Alice was far too sick and frail at her age to live alone so Helen agreed Alice could stay with them, but tensions remained high. Alice was very critical of the way Helen ran the house. She had very old fashioned ideas about what chores were for women and what chores were for men, and would often scold Helen and Peter for doing the "wrong chores"