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10 Years With the Fournier Family in Modern France
Year 0Raoul and Ayumi are newly married and living in Saint-Brieuc, Brittany, France. Raoul is a physicist and Ayumi is a veterinary nurse. They met when Ayumi's family moved to France from Japan eight years ago, and they dated for five years before now getting married. They want to start a family and are excited about beginning their lives together.DH [23]: Raoul Jérémy Fournier
* French
* wavy brown hair and green eyes
* physicistDW [21]: Ayumi Fournier (née Sakamoto)
* Japanese
* straight black hair and brown eyes
* veterinary nurseRaoul & Ayumi---Year 1A year into their marriage, Raoul and Ayumi attend a family reunion with all of Ayumi's extended family. To do this, they travel to Japan. Ayumi is excited to introduce her husband to her home country, as it's his first time traveling there, and Raoul is thrilled to meet all of his wife's relatives. He shakes the hands of endless aunts and uncles and grandparents and cousins, baffled by their string of fast Japanese. A few try to speak broken French to him, but mostly Ayumi or her parents translate. They stay for three weeks and have a wonderful time, before returning home.DH [24]: Raoul Jérémy Fournier
* French
* wavy brown hair and green eyes
* physicistDW [22]: Ayumi Fournier (née Sakamoto)
* Japanese
* straight black hair and brown eyes
* veterinary nurseRaoul & Ayumi---Year 2In their second year of marriage, Ayumi gives birth to a baby girl! They give her a French first name and a Japanese middle name: Lucille Kumiko, Lucie for short. Lucie looks like her mother but with her father's eyes and face shape. Raoul and Ayumi absolutely adore their baby daughter.DH [25]: Raoul Jérémy Fournier
* French
* wavy brown hair and green eyes
* physicistDW [23]: Ayumi Fournier (née Sakamoto)
* Japanese
* straight black hair and brown eyes
* veterinary nurseDD [nb]: Lucille Kumiko Fournier "Lucie"
* half French half Japanese
* wavy black hair and green eyesRaoul & Ayumi; Lucie---Year 3Lucie is a year old and the family decide to adopt a pet! They adopt a male kitten at Christmas and name him Noël, in spirit with the festive season. Lucie is fascinated by this new addition to the household and has to be taught not to pull the cat's tail.DH [26]: Raoul Jérémy Fournier
* French
* wavy brown hair and green eyes
* physicistDW [24]: Ayumi Fournier (née Sakamoto)
* Japanese
* straight black hair and brown eyes
* veterinary nurseDD [1]: Lucille Kumiko Fournier "Lucie"
* half French half Japanese
* wavy black hair and green eyesDCat [nb]: Noël FournierRaoul & Ayumi; Lucie, + Noël---Year 4Raoul is having some issues at work and is worried he's going to lose his job as a result. In anticipation, he quits and there's a small panic as he tries to find a new job. Luckily, he manages to find one, still in the same field. He settles in and soon things are back to normal.DH [27]: Raoul Jérémy Fournier
* French
* wavy brown hair and green eyes
* physicistDW [25]: Ayumi Fournier (née Sakamoto)
* Japanese
* straight black hair and brown eyes
* veterinary nurseDD [2]: Lucille Kumiko Fournier "Lucie"
* half French half Japanese
* wavy black hair and green eyesDCat [1]: Noël FournierRaoul & Ayumi; Lucie, + Noël---Year 5Raoul and Ayumi are trying to get pregnant again, but Ayumi suffers a miscarriage. The whole family is devastated. However, Ayumi becomes pregnant again almost immediately by accident, and this time the baby survives! Ayumi gives birth to another healthy baby girl and Lucie is excited to have a sister. They name her Nathalie Momoko. Nathalie looks a lot like her father.DH [28]: Raoul Jérémy Fournier
* French
* wavy brown hair and green eyes
* physicistDW [26]: Ayumi Fournier (née Sakamoto)
* Japanese
* straight black hair and brown eyes
* veterinary nurseDD [3]: Lucille Kumiko Fournier "Lucie"
* half French half Japanese
* wavy black hair and green eyesDD [nb]: Nathalie Momoko Fournier
* half French half Japanese
* straight brown hair and green eyesDCat [2]: Noël FournierRaoul & Ayumi; Lucie, and Nathalie, + Noël---Year 6When Nathalie is only a year old, Ayumi becomes pregnant yet again and delivers identical twin boys! They name them Gabriel Hideaki and Hector Gorou. The boys look very similar to Raoul and Nathalie. In other news, four-year-old Lucie has taken up drawing and discovered she has a real talent for art and absolutely loves it.DH [29]: Raoul Jérémy Fournier
* French
* wavy brown hair and green eyes
* physicistDW [27]: Ayumi Fournier (née Sakamoto)
* Japanese
* straight black hair and brown eyes
* veterinary nurseDD [4]: Lucille Kumiko Fournier "Lucie"
* half French half Japanese
* wavy black hair and green eyes
* drawing, artDD [1]: Nathalie Momoko Fournier
* half French half Japanese
* straight brown hair and green eyesDS/DS [nb]: Gabriel Hideaki Fournier & Hector Gorou Fournier
* half French half Japanese
* identical: straight brown hair and green eyesDCat [3]: Noël FournierRaoul & Ayumi; Lucie, Nathalie, and Gabriel & Hector, + Noël---Year 7It's a hectic year, so Raoul's mother moves in for a few months to help take care of all the small children. Lucie is particularly attached to her Mamie, and draws her lots of pictures, which the loving grandmother pins up on her bedroom wall. Being an artist herself, she is particularly proud.DGM [61]: Marianne Victoire Fournier (née Lavigne)
* French
* wavy red hair and green eyes
* artistDH [30]: Raoul Jérémy Fournier
* French
* wavy brown hair and green eyes
* physicistDW [28]: Ayumi Fournier (née Sakamoto)
* Japanese
* straight black hair and brown eyes
* veterinary nurseDD [5]: Lucille Kumiko Fournier "Lucie"
* half French half Japanese
* wavy black hair and green eyes
* drawing, artDD [2]: Nathalie Momoko Fournier
* half French half Japanese
* straight brown hair and green eyesDS/DS [1]: Gabriel Hideaki Fournier & Hector Gorou Fournier
* half French half Japanese
* identical: straight brown hair and green eyesDCat [4]: Noël FournierMarianne & decDH; Raoul
Raoul & Ayumi; Lucie, Nathalie, and Gabriel & Hector, + Noël---Year 8Raoul's mother has moved out again, but she still lives nearby to babysit when necessary. Now Ayumi, who was brought up a Buddhist, decides to convert to Christianity, the religion that most of Raoul's family follows. She now attends church every Sunday with the rest of the family and reads the Bible often.DH [31]: Raoul Jérémy Fournier
* French
* wavy brown hair and green eyes
* physicistDW [29]: Ayumi Fournier (née Sakamoto)
* Japanese
* straight black hair and brown eyes
* veterinary nurseDD [6]: Lucille Kumiko Fournier "Lucie"
* half French half Japanese
* wavy black hair and green eyes
* drawing, artDD [3]: Nathalie Momoko Fournier
* half French half Japanese
* straight brown hair and green eyesDS/DS [2]: Gabriel Hideaki Fournier & Hector Gorou Fournier
* half French half Japanese
* identical: straight brown hair and green eyesDCat [5]: Noël FournierRaoul & Ayumi; Lucie, Nathalie, and Gabriel & Hector, + Noël---Year 9The family gets a scare this year: Gabriel has been diagnosed with leukaemia aged only three. He is beginning treatment, and his family and doctors are hopeful that he will recover, but the household this year is a subdued one.DH [32]: Raoul Jérémy Fournier
* French
* wavy brown hair and green eyes
* physicistDW [30]: Ayumi Fournier (née Sakamoto)
* Japanese
* straight black hair and brown eyes
* veterinary nurseDD [7]: Lucille Kumiko Fournier "Lucie"
* half French half Japanese
* wavy black hair and green eyes
* drawing, artDD [4]: Nathalie Momoko Fournier
* half French half Japanese
* straight brown hair and green eyesDS/DS [3]: Gabriel Hideaki Fournier & Hector Gorou Fournier
* half French half Japanese
* identical: straight brown hair and green eyes
* Gabriel has leukaemiaDCat [6]: Noël FournierRaoul & Ayumi; Lucie, Nathalie, and Gabriel & Hector, + Noël---Year 10Ayumi is pregnant yet again and gives birth to another baby girl! They name her Isabelle Junko. Isabelle looks very similar to Lucie and Ayumi. The family love their new bundle of joy. In other news, Gabriel is responding well to his cancer treatment. Also, this year the family attend another family reunion in Japan. Many of Ayumi's relatives have not met her children before and it's a perfect chance for them to practice speaking Japanese and see all their cousins and aunts and uncles and grandparents. Nathalie bonds with an older cousin named Itsuki and he teaches her to fish.DH [33]: Raoul Jérémy Fournier
* French
* wavy brown hair and green eyes
* physicistDW [31]: Ayumi Fournier (née Sakamoto)
* Japanese
* straight black hair and brown eyes
* veterinary nurseDD [8]: Lucille Kumiko Fournier "Lucie"
* half French half Japanese
* wavy black hair and green eyes
* drawing, artDD [5]: Nathalie Momoko Fournier
* half French half Japanese
* straight brown hair and green eyes
* fishingDS/DS [4]: Gabriel Hideaki Fournier & Hector Gorou Fournier
* half French half Japanese
* identical: straight brown hair and green eyes
* Gabriel has leukaemiaDD [nb]: Isabelle Junko Fournier
* half French half Japanese
* wavy black hair and green eyesDCat [7]: Noël FournierRaoul & Ayumi; Lucie, Nathalie, Gabriel & Hector, and Isabelle, + Noël---LISTEN TO THE MUSTN'TS
- Shel SilversteinListen to the MUSTN'TS, child,
Listen to the DON'TS
Listen to the SHOULDN'TS
The IMPOSSIBLES, the WON'TS
Listen to the NEVER HAVES
Then listen close to me—
Anything can happen, child,
ANYTHING can be.
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