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Silas Silver VIII marries Esther Young in a hasty ceremony, against the wishes of the parents of both bride and groom.

Silas Silver VIII, of the schooner Minna, is lost overboard near the Race Point Lighthouse on the coast of Provincetown, Massachusetts.

Ada Coffin is born. The names of her parents are currently unknown, though she did claim to be half-Wampanoag (possibly on her mother’s side).

Silas Silver IX marries Patience, the daughter of a “a local cranberry baron.”

Patience, one of the seven wives of Silas Silver IX, dies of influenza.

Silas Silver IX marries Charity.

Silas Silver IX marries Ada Coffin.

Silas Silver IX marries Anne Carson. However, the marriage is annulled 3–4 days later.

Silas Silver IX marries Maggie.

Six months shy of his 70th birthday, Silas Silver IX marries his final wife: Annie O’Reilly.

Dorothy “Dottie” Silver, the second and final child of Silas Silver IX and Annie O’Reilly is born.

Tamson O’Rourke is murdered by an unknown assailant on the green lawns of Boston Common.

Stanislaw Filipowicz is killed on his front lawn during an altercation with neighborhood ruffians. The cause of the argument? Moonshine.

Dottie Silver dies of consumption during a stay in the Boston Sanatorium.

Nigel Mackman, protagonist of the short story “Ezekiel and the Harvesters,” is born after October 10 but before the end of 1944.

Albert Silver, disc jockey and father of Michael and Ashley, is born to parents Eli and Edna.

Michaela Hamilton, the future Dr. Michaela Silver, is born to parents Michael and Sigrid.

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.

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.”

Tracy Silver conducts further interviews for an essay that will be published in The Real World as the short story “The Silver Family Singers.” She hands it into Mrs. Carson in March.

Belinda Michaelson attends Kimball College.

Ashley makes a second, half-hearted attempt at earning a college degree.

Ashley Silver succumbs to breast cancer, dying at her family’s ancestral home on Cape Cod.