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Those children would all be about sixty years old now

posted 14 years ago by Eric-1226
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Those poor radioactive kids were so eerily beautiful, in the context of the story. Kind of jarring to realize that they would all be about sixty years old now.

Also, found this bit of trivia via Wikipedia:

"The children's names, Henry, Victoria, Elizabeth, George, Richard, Charles, William, Anne and Mary are based, perhaps intentionally, on those of English Kings and Queens."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/These_are_the_damned

"A little old lady got mutilated late last night… Werewolves of London again."

[–] classics_guy 10 years ago

65-years-old by now. but that's good. means they are still alive and hopefully well and content in their lives today.

[–] essex9999 10 years ago

means they are still alive and hopefully well and content in their lives today.

Considering that everyone they have extended contact with either has to wear a radiation protection suit or die of radiation poisoning, probably not. The story is a tragedy. It's not meant to have any sort of happy ending for anyone.