Dionne Quints'1 Story Tells They Were
Taught to he Afraid of Men
NEW YORK tP — The coming
of age of five girls, taught from
childhood they could never marry
or bear children, is told by the Di
onne Quintuplets in the current
issue of McCall’s Magazine — the
final installment of their own life
story.
According to the four surviving
Quints, the subject of men was
an all but forbidden one, based
on the forecasts of doctors at their
own births, that they would never
have children of their own.
As a result, the girls relate, they
were seldom permitted even to
talk to any member of the male
sex outside their family circle,
and until they reached the age of
20, and left home for the first
time, were almost totally ignorant
of what men were like.
But, they add — “In spite of all
this, gradually the spark began to
glow in each of our hearts. Though
men frightened us to death, we
wanted to know a little about their
inscrutable ways.”
Cecile was the first to find out.
Philippe Langlois, a television tech
nician who eventually married her,
telephoned her at the hosptal in
Montreal where she worked. She
agreed to a blind date.
It soon became apparent that
Langlois was being shadowed by
private detectives and confirma
tion came when the bill was
charged to the Quints' trust ac
count. They say their father had
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Later "The three of us who were
married,” the Quints go on, "had
to face the thought of bearing chil
dren. What was impressed most
deeply on our minds was the fire
cast of long ago. . . .
"Cecile was going to be the
first of us to experience child
I birth, and she was sure she would
| die.”
I "Annette’s fear took a different
| turn,” the girls relate. “She felt
' certain that her child would be
born deformed.”
Both had healthy boys,
j Marie was not worried, even
j though she lost two babies (by
miscarriage). On Christmas Eve,
1960, a daughter was born to her
and she named it Emilie, after
the quintuplet who had died sev
eral years before.
The fourth surviving Quint,
Yvonne, had entered a convent.
The Quintuplets say of their
father:
"He did not know how much
the world would be interested in
five unexpected daughters. He
tried to keep us in seclusion and
in doing so, he thrust us away
from him. . . .
“He was reluctant to give us up
again, even in marriage. He
wanted us for himself as long as
he lived He did not see the good
things in our birth. The money
that flowed almost spontaneously
was both a good and a bad thing.
“Good because it took the edge
off the poverty. . . .
"Bad, because it changed the
nature of Dad.”
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