Dede's Time Line

Dede’s Time Line

Born: 1925

1938

·         Dede goes to school with her two older sisters, Minerva and Patria

1943

·         Family gathering underneath the large tree in the front yard

·         Father tells Dede’s fortune- predicts that she is going to be a millionaire that buries the whole family

·         Dede interprets this after as an omen for the beginning of the end

1948

·         Dede and Minerva meet Lio when he and his cousin visits them at their father’s store

·         Once Lio has to flee the country, he trust Dede with a note for Minerva. Dede decides not to give Minerva the note in order to ‘save’ her

·         Dede gets engaged and married to Jaimito

1950

·         The businesses that Dede starts with her husband fail, this includes a restaurant and an ice cream parlor

·         Presumably she has at least one child by this point

1954

·         Money being tight after the failed business ventures, Dede and her family move into her childhood home

·         At least two children by this point

·         Problems between the couple start arising

1960

·         Dede’s sisters ask if they can bury weapons on their property, Jaimito says no, and this starts Dede’s indecision about what was going to happen to her

·         Dede’s sister’s husbands are all arrested, Jaimito is the only one who was spared (he wasn’t involved in any revolutionary planning)

·         Jaimito takes care of the sisters after their husbands were taken

·         Dede and Jaimito petition to get the three sisters back after they were taken away by the government

1994

·         Dede lives in family home

·         Runs museum dedicated to her sisters

·         Participates in the ‘yearly interviews’

·         She’s still involved with her nieces and nephews