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Help[Games] Re: 15 year game
in reply to a message by rubymay92
H: August Jude Williams (29)
W: Alice Katharine Johnson (21)
August (Gus) is a plumber whose family has lived on Prince Edward Island, Canada, for as long as anyone can remember. Alice moves to the island at 15, after the death of her parents. Gus nearly runs over her while driving home from a job in the rain. He gives her a ride home, and even though he is nearly twenty-one, he falls in love with her immediately. Alice has no time for romance-- she lives with her mother's distant cousins, who are struggling fishermen. To help support their family, Alice enrolls in a two-year teaching college at 17. She graduates at nineteen and begins teaching first grade. Now that she is on her own, she finally agrees to start dating Gus, who has been waiting patiently for years. Two years later, he has finally saved up enough money to buy a small house, and he asks her to marry him. She says yes.
Year One: Alice and Gus have a beautiful spring wedding on the high, rocky cliff where they met. When falls comes, Alice decides not to return to teaching, since she and Gus are planning to start a family right away. Since she has been working and studying constantly since coming to the Island, Alice is enjoying her first real time off.
Year Two: They are still trying to get pregnant, with no success. Gus surprises his wife with a pet horse for her birthday. She's a beauty, and Alice names her Pearl, for her color. She escapes her sorrows by riding Pearl on the beach for hours.
Year Three: After two years of trying, Alice and Gus rejoice when they finally conceive their first baby-- and they are even more overjoyed when it turns out to be twins. Ruby Olivia and Miles Henry are born on a clear Indian summer day. They are the light of their parents' lives and hearts. Ruby is named for her maternal grandmother, Olive, and her distinctive strawberry blonde curls-- just like her mother's. Miles Henry is named for his paternal great-grandfathers, who were Gus's heroes and role models growing up.
Year Four: Around the time of the twins' first birthday, Gus is contacted by a plumber in Toronto. He is retiring and wants Gus to take over his business. After much debate, Gus and Alice agree. They know they will miss the natural beauty of their home on PEI, but they are excited to raise their children in a bustling and multi-cultural city. They make Pearl a present to one of Alice's former students, who will love and care for her.
Year Five: Alice is befriended immediately by the woman who lives in the apartment below them, Caroline. Caroline is a single mother raising a daughter she adopted from Thailand. Since Alice and Gus's attempts to have another child haven't been successful, they decide to pursue adoption. With Caroline's help, they bring home a lovely nine-month old girl of their own, Eve Iris. Eve is just a name they like. Iris is for Alice's foster mother, whose hard life has taken a toll on her, and is in poor health.
Year Six: Iris's health worsens, so Alice takes Eve and the twins home to the Island to help care for her. She passes away in September, and they return to Toronto with heavy hearts.
Year Seven: Gus has the idea that the best way to pay tribute to Iris's life is to expand their own family. Alice finally sees a doctor about her difficulties getting pregnant, but they cannot find any medical reason for it. She and Gus turn to adoption again and are matched with a thirteen-year old boy from China. Bai showed up on the steps of the orphanage when he was ten, having journeyed there from a remote village after his parents died. Alice, having been orphaned herself, expects to bond with him immediately. He does not speak much English, and he picks the name Roman Callum for himself. Roman is closer to Gus than to Alice, and he enjoys playing on a hockey team his father coaches. Alice is finally able to discover from the Chinese government that Roman had a five year old brother. They were only approved to adopt Roman because he was old and his prospects were so limited. Alice promises her son that she will find a way to make his brother part of their family.
Year Eight: Gus's business is booming, so he takes a two-week vacation for the first time in eight years! Gus, Alice, and their four children go to China for a holiday. They are able to visit Roman's brother, Li, in the orphanage. Roman was more a father to his brother than a sibling, and when it is time to leave, Li clings to him, crying. Alice is more determined than ever to bring him home.
Year Nine: After two years of appealing to government officials, Alice and Gus are finally approved to adopt Li, who is now seven years old. Roman, his siblings, and Alice and Gus have been writing to him regularly, and with their help, his English is quite good. Li picks the name Oliver August for himself, after Oliver Twist and his new father. Miles, Ruby, and Eve have formed a tight trio over the years, being so close in age, and Oliver has trouble fitting in. He spends most of his time tagging along after his father or Roman.
Year Ten: Years after Alice and Gus gave up hope of ever having another biological child... they get pregnant. Juliette Alice Williams is born at the end of May. Her parents are ecstatic but overwhelmed, and Alice leans on her children, especially Miles and Ruby, for help. Her birth serves to bond the siblings together, and they all spoil her to death.
Year Eleven: Gus's brother, who took over the family's plumbing business on PEI when they left, is struggling with an addiction to painkillers. Gus hires a partner to operate the day-to-day duties of his business in Toronto, and goes to PEI for two months to work on his family's business. Roman and Oliver, who are still the closest to Gus, accompany him and fall in love with the island. Gus's brother, Simon, decides he never wanted to be a plumber and leaves the island for America. The family loses contact with him, and Gus and Alice aren't sure what to do. Roman, who is nineteen, enrolls without his parents' knowledge in the same two-year teaching program that his mother attended years ago. The island reminds him of the village where he grew up, and he plans to stay there after graduating.
Year Twelve: Finally, after nearly eight years away, Gus and Alice decide to sell their business and move back home. Miles, Eve, and Ruby are accustomed to life in Toronto and have trouble adjusting to the slower pace of PEI. Alice decides to homeschool the children, as Roman's new passion for teaching reminds her how much she missed it. They buy an old converted farmhouse and use the large basement as a classroom.
Year Thirteen: Gus and Alice are heartbroken when their dear friend from Toronto, Caroline, contacts them with news she is battling ovarian cancer. Her diagnosis is poor, and she asks them to consider raising her eleven-year old daughter, Virginia, after her death. They have served as unofficial aunt and uncle to the girl for years, and they adore her. Knowing Caroline has no other family, they agree. Alice and Eve travel to Toronto and are at her bedside when she passes away. Virginia Adele, or Ginny, returns with them to the island.
Year Fourteen: Alice's student, now an adult, allows her children to ride old Pearl, and Miles, who is having the most trouble adjusting to his new home, falls in love with horses. For a Christmas present, Alice and Gus buy him a horse of his own. Taking a cue from his mother, he names him Raven, for his coloring. They also buy Ginny her first pet ever, a beautiful calico cat she names Rupert.
Year Fifteen: Other parents on the island are so impressed with the projects Alice's children do in school, they want to enroll their own children as well. She decides to start a small private school, and they buy a small building near the beach. Roman, who has been teaching at the public school for a couple years now, joins his mother's new academy.
The Family:
August Jude Williams, age 44
Alice Katharine Johnson Williams, age 36
Roman Callum Williams, age 21
Virgina Adele Matthews, age 13
Oliver August Williams, age 13
Miles Henry Williams, age 12
Ruby Olivia Williams, age 12
Eve Iris Williams, age 11
Juliette Alice Williams, age 5
W: Alice Katharine Johnson (21)
August (Gus) is a plumber whose family has lived on Prince Edward Island, Canada, for as long as anyone can remember. Alice moves to the island at 15, after the death of her parents. Gus nearly runs over her while driving home from a job in the rain. He gives her a ride home, and even though he is nearly twenty-one, he falls in love with her immediately. Alice has no time for romance-- she lives with her mother's distant cousins, who are struggling fishermen. To help support their family, Alice enrolls in a two-year teaching college at 17. She graduates at nineteen and begins teaching first grade. Now that she is on her own, she finally agrees to start dating Gus, who has been waiting patiently for years. Two years later, he has finally saved up enough money to buy a small house, and he asks her to marry him. She says yes.
Year One: Alice and Gus have a beautiful spring wedding on the high, rocky cliff where they met. When falls comes, Alice decides not to return to teaching, since she and Gus are planning to start a family right away. Since she has been working and studying constantly since coming to the Island, Alice is enjoying her first real time off.
Year Two: They are still trying to get pregnant, with no success. Gus surprises his wife with a pet horse for her birthday. She's a beauty, and Alice names her Pearl, for her color. She escapes her sorrows by riding Pearl on the beach for hours.
Year Three: After two years of trying, Alice and Gus rejoice when they finally conceive their first baby-- and they are even more overjoyed when it turns out to be twins. Ruby Olivia and Miles Henry are born on a clear Indian summer day. They are the light of their parents' lives and hearts. Ruby is named for her maternal grandmother, Olive, and her distinctive strawberry blonde curls-- just like her mother's. Miles Henry is named for his paternal great-grandfathers, who were Gus's heroes and role models growing up.
Year Four: Around the time of the twins' first birthday, Gus is contacted by a plumber in Toronto. He is retiring and wants Gus to take over his business. After much debate, Gus and Alice agree. They know they will miss the natural beauty of their home on PEI, but they are excited to raise their children in a bustling and multi-cultural city. They make Pearl a present to one of Alice's former students, who will love and care for her.
Year Five: Alice is befriended immediately by the woman who lives in the apartment below them, Caroline. Caroline is a single mother raising a daughter she adopted from Thailand. Since Alice and Gus's attempts to have another child haven't been successful, they decide to pursue adoption. With Caroline's help, they bring home a lovely nine-month old girl of their own, Eve Iris. Eve is just a name they like. Iris is for Alice's foster mother, whose hard life has taken a toll on her, and is in poor health.
Year Six: Iris's health worsens, so Alice takes Eve and the twins home to the Island to help care for her. She passes away in September, and they return to Toronto with heavy hearts.
Year Seven: Gus has the idea that the best way to pay tribute to Iris's life is to expand their own family. Alice finally sees a doctor about her difficulties getting pregnant, but they cannot find any medical reason for it. She and Gus turn to adoption again and are matched with a thirteen-year old boy from China. Bai showed up on the steps of the orphanage when he was ten, having journeyed there from a remote village after his parents died. Alice, having been orphaned herself, expects to bond with him immediately. He does not speak much English, and he picks the name Roman Callum for himself. Roman is closer to Gus than to Alice, and he enjoys playing on a hockey team his father coaches. Alice is finally able to discover from the Chinese government that Roman had a five year old brother. They were only approved to adopt Roman because he was old and his prospects were so limited. Alice promises her son that she will find a way to make his brother part of their family.
Year Eight: Gus's business is booming, so he takes a two-week vacation for the first time in eight years! Gus, Alice, and their four children go to China for a holiday. They are able to visit Roman's brother, Li, in the orphanage. Roman was more a father to his brother than a sibling, and when it is time to leave, Li clings to him, crying. Alice is more determined than ever to bring him home.
Year Nine: After two years of appealing to government officials, Alice and Gus are finally approved to adopt Li, who is now seven years old. Roman, his siblings, and Alice and Gus have been writing to him regularly, and with their help, his English is quite good. Li picks the name Oliver August for himself, after Oliver Twist and his new father. Miles, Ruby, and Eve have formed a tight trio over the years, being so close in age, and Oliver has trouble fitting in. He spends most of his time tagging along after his father or Roman.
Year Ten: Years after Alice and Gus gave up hope of ever having another biological child... they get pregnant. Juliette Alice Williams is born at the end of May. Her parents are ecstatic but overwhelmed, and Alice leans on her children, especially Miles and Ruby, for help. Her birth serves to bond the siblings together, and they all spoil her to death.
Year Eleven: Gus's brother, who took over the family's plumbing business on PEI when they left, is struggling with an addiction to painkillers. Gus hires a partner to operate the day-to-day duties of his business in Toronto, and goes to PEI for two months to work on his family's business. Roman and Oliver, who are still the closest to Gus, accompany him and fall in love with the island. Gus's brother, Simon, decides he never wanted to be a plumber and leaves the island for America. The family loses contact with him, and Gus and Alice aren't sure what to do. Roman, who is nineteen, enrolls without his parents' knowledge in the same two-year teaching program that his mother attended years ago. The island reminds him of the village where he grew up, and he plans to stay there after graduating.
Year Twelve: Finally, after nearly eight years away, Gus and Alice decide to sell their business and move back home. Miles, Eve, and Ruby are accustomed to life in Toronto and have trouble adjusting to the slower pace of PEI. Alice decides to homeschool the children, as Roman's new passion for teaching reminds her how much she missed it. They buy an old converted farmhouse and use the large basement as a classroom.
Year Thirteen: Gus and Alice are heartbroken when their dear friend from Toronto, Caroline, contacts them with news she is battling ovarian cancer. Her diagnosis is poor, and she asks them to consider raising her eleven-year old daughter, Virginia, after her death. They have served as unofficial aunt and uncle to the girl for years, and they adore her. Knowing Caroline has no other family, they agree. Alice and Eve travel to Toronto and are at her bedside when she passes away. Virginia Adele, or Ginny, returns with them to the island.
Year Fourteen: Alice's student, now an adult, allows her children to ride old Pearl, and Miles, who is having the most trouble adjusting to his new home, falls in love with horses. For a Christmas present, Alice and Gus buy him a horse of his own. Taking a cue from his mother, he names him Raven, for his coloring. They also buy Ginny her first pet ever, a beautiful calico cat she names Rupert.
Year Fifteen: Other parents on the island are so impressed with the projects Alice's children do in school, they want to enroll their own children as well. She decides to start a small private school, and they buy a small building near the beach. Roman, who has been teaching at the public school for a couple years now, joins his mother's new academy.
The Family:
August Jude Williams, age 44
Alice Katharine Johnson Williams, age 36
Roman Callum Williams, age 21
Virgina Adele Matthews, age 13
Oliver August Williams, age 13
Miles Henry Williams, age 12
Ruby Olivia Williams, age 12
Eve Iris Williams, age 11
Juliette Alice Williams, age 5
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