Question
What relation are Mary and Gertie? Was Gertie adopted?
shareGertie was her daughter, the same way the boys were her sons. She wasn't adopted.
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I always thought it was weird how those kids referred to their mother by her first name. Michael does it too: "Mary, can I back out the car?"
Perhaps that's where the confusion is coming from.
"A little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the difference." Eeyore
DarthSil, yeah, I'd hadn't thought of that. Definitely could be what threw the OP off.
I always saw them calling her "Mary" as a bit of commentary on how different the parent/child relationship had become with the baby boomer generation.
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