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Silas Silver VIII is born to parents Silas and Reliance.

Silas Odysseus Silver IX is born to parents Silas and Esther Silver.

Esther Young, widow of the late Silas Silver VIII, dies.

Sarah Silver leaves her home on Cape Cod for years of adventure in the Wild West of America.

After a brief return home to her family’s ancestral home on Cape Cod to introduce her brother to the woman who will become his next wife, Sarah Silver returns to her adventures in the Wild West of America.

Charity, one of the seven wives of Silas Silver IX, “catches her death of cold.”

Ada Coffin, one of the seven wives of Silas Silver IX dies under mysterious circumstances.

Annie O’Reilly, the final wife of Silas Silver IX, is born.

Maggie, one of the seven wives of Silas Silver IX, dies after an extended illness that lasted nearly the entire length of their marriage.

Annie O’Reilly dies in an alley behind The Strumpet’s Sister, just after giving birth to her child Dottie.

Edna Filipowicz, daughter of Laima Kalnietyte and future wife of Eli Silver, is born in Malden, Massachusetts.

Laima Smith (née Kalnietyte) commits suicide at her home in Malden, Massachusetts. Her body is discovered by her daughter, Edna Filipowicz.

Sigrid Yorickson, pin-up model and future mother of Michaela Hamilton, is born.

Silas Silver IX, nicknamed Old Silas, dies at age 100—but not before denying his youngest child’s request to be buried in the family plot.

Matthew Robert Silver is born to parents Robert and Lydia Silver.

Desiree Emerson and most of her high school graduating class are born this year.

Albert Silver meets Michaela Hamilton, his future wife, while selling concessions at Fenway Park during the World Series. He’s paying his way through a Boston University communications degree. She’s a pre-med student at a nearby school.

Twin sisters Melancholy and Jenna Worthing are born.

Michael Albert Silver is born to Albert and Michaela Silver.

Adam Gates is born.

Matt Silver’s romance with Garry Kent begins during a Boy Scout camping trip.

Robin Gates finds and reads a copy of her obituary—dated sixteen years into the future—while hanging out at the bar where her mother is working.

Michael Silver befriends Kamala while on a school trip to Washington, DC.

An accident during a hookup with The Runt results in the best thing to ever happen to Veronica Silver.

Michael Silver takes Desiree Emerson to the prom when Desiree’s true love—MIchael’s cousin Veronica—is forced to go with the father of her as-yet-unborn child.

Tracy Spencer Silver is born to her mother Veronica Silver and biological father Timothy Weeks.

Encouraged by Adam’s mom, a deeply stoned Ashley Silver and Adam Gates lose their virginity together.

Michael Silver and Robin Gates begin their tumultuous romance.

Michael Silver takes Robin Gates to his senior prom. They spend the evening after the dance at his family’s ancestral home on Cape Cod.

Evan, a student at Kimball College who is still reeling from the death of his father one year earlier, has an eventful autumn in the short story “One Player or Two?”

Frustrated by Robin’s wandering eye, Michael Silver proposes that he and his girlfriend have an “autumn of anything goes“ in their relationship. This leads to several months of random hookups for the both of them.

Sam is born on January 1. His father dies in a car accident on the fourteenth. Shortly after this, Sam’s mother writes a letter of confession which is published in The Real World as the story “Those Little Bastards.”

Veronica Silver graduates from Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts.

…Ashley reveals to her immediate family that she plans to start stripping after she turns eighteen the next month.

International supermodel Sylvia, saddened by memories of her relationship with Johnny Baptist, contemplates a career change in the short story “Sylvia’s Masterpiece.”

Veronica Silver—with a little help from her girlfriend Desiree, her cousin Michael, and Michael’s fiancée Jenna Worthing—takes her daughter Tracy to Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida for the first time.

Michael and Jenna Silver move to Hawaii, leaving a week earlier than originally planned—thereby avoiding a flight out of Boston on September 11, 2001.

NFL football player Carl Jacobson goes home to Chelmsford, Massachusetts for the weekend to reunite with long lost girlfriend Anna Simonson. These events are chronicled in the short story “Carl.”

On a trip to the her family’s ancestral home on Cape Cod, Ashley Silver first learns about Ada Coffin’s potions for traveling through time.

Tracy Silver conducts interviews with Michael Silver and others for an essay that will be published in The Real World as the short story “The Silver Family Singers.”