ages of the sons?
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rixrex — 12 years ago(January 23, 2014 06:45 AM)
You're mistaken, watch the film again. He had already gone to the college for a short time and returned, and didn't want to go back.
And just for the sake of arguement, let's say he was 17. That's still entirely possible to have a 25 yr difference between the oldest and the youngest in a family, instead of 20 yr difference.
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rixrex — 12 years ago(January 25, 2014 07:47 AM)
Sorry, I watched the movie three days ago and did not see that mentioned anywhere. Of course, it's possible I was seeing an edited version and it wasn't there, because there wasn't any mention of his specific age in any scene. I assumed the age due to the fact that he had been to the college for a short time already and had come back home, so I'll defer to your comment on this as being true. Even with that, the age difference is possible if not probable.
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rixrex — 11 years ago(May 26, 2014 07:44 PM)
I just got done watching the scene where he states his age, and he indeed states that he is "over 18", So he's at least 18 and some months.
It's also clearly stated that he has been to mining college for the past several months. So I think the age difference is around 22-24 years, supposedly, and entirely possible.
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rixrex — 11 years ago(May 29, 2014 07:33 AM)
Sounded like "over" to me, but regardless, we're talking about a maybe 6 month difference at most in his age here, almost 18 vs over 18.
That wouldn't disallow the plausability of such an age difference between the eldest son and the youngest. Especially if the mother had the eldest son when she was a teenager, not at all unheard of in those days.
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grandmabrat — 11 years ago(August 14, 2014 09:06 PM)
my great grandmother was born 1870, had her first child in 1890, and her last in 1920. Most of them survived to adulthood, so this is quite possible. Her eldest was 30 at the time of the youngest sibling's birth.
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EyesRed — 9 years ago(June 13, 2016 06:22 AM)
grandmabrat.you wrote."my great grandmother was born 1870"
My grandfather was born in 1882. My dad was born in 1929.
My older brother was born in 1958. My sister was born in 1987.
My brother is 29 years older than my sister.kind of unusual.
Though this runs in our family. Both my parents are the oldest and both are 21 years older than their youngest sibling. So to me this movie isn't so far fetched with the age differences.
What I think is very unusual.My sister is in her 20's and her grandfather was born 134 years ago.
I tell her if she could live to 95 she could then tell people her grandfather was born 200 years back.
Wouldn't you know it.I tell this story to an elderly lady sitting in a DR.s office. So she then tells me her story.
She's 93 and her father was 60 years old when she was born. He was born during the civil war in 1863.wow
LOL.what could I say.told her I may stop telling my story for awhile because yours beat it.
I should have asked her when her grandfather was born but wasn't sure they kept records that far back.lol j/k