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Anyone Else Notice

posted 9 years ago by PatchouliMoonsong
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At the very end of Petals on the Wind, Cathy and Chris were referred to as the Dollangangers, but in If There Be Thorns, they are known as the Sheffields. I wonder why that is.

[–] TinaKimo 9 years ago

They moved away and changed their names to live as hubby and wife. I just wonder how did Corrine find them? Moved next door? Utterly creepy.

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[–] PatchouliMoonsong 9 years ago

At the end of PotW, it flashes forward a few years to when they're living as husband and wife. That's when they were addressed as the Dollangangers, which I thought was weird.

I'm also wondering how Corrine found them, as well as how she managed to escape the mental institution in the first place, and I say escape because there's no way her condition was so vastly improved that they released her.

[–] cynthiam27 9 years ago

i thought Cathy speculated that she was faking to avoid prison?

[–] JayfromtheBay 8 years ago

Didn't they also have their own blonde children? What happened to those kids because I'm pretty sure they weren't Bart and Jory.

[–] Silverbullet88 8 years ago

There was just Bart, Jory, and their adopted daughter Cindy in both the books and films. Hope this helps!

[–] cynking 8 years ago

I havent read the books in 35 years, but I think Cathy and Chris were adopted by the guy that saved them at the end of FitA. Wasnt that Dr Paul Sheffield?

[–] PatchouliMoonsong 8 years ago

In the movies, there was some inconsistency. Throughout PotW, their surname is Sheffield, but in the epilogue where Cathy, Chris, and the boys are living together as a family, they're having a picnic and one of their friends says, "Boy, you Dollangangers are always so perfect."

But then in the following movies, they are addressed only as the Sheffields.