Cary Ann Graham was born on November 12, 1963, the third child of high school sweetheart's

Margaret and Herbert Graham.

She had one older brother and one older sister, named Ron and Kelly, respectively, and all

three siblings seemed to share at least a couple of characteristics.

Not headed this and a need for independence among them.

Despite growing up in a relatively comfortable and normal American household, all three of

the Graham children would end up running away from home during different periods of adolescence.

A stubborn attempt to achieve early independence, or something like it, however all three

would end up returning home eventually.

Everyone would remember Cary Graham as a very hot-headed child that was described as

temperamental even on her best of days.

While this made her a nightmare for her parents to handle, this made Cary a lightning rod for

others in her social circle among them, her teenage best friend and neighbor, Francine.

Francine Marie Trimble was born on September 27, 1964, and as described by Grey George

in his book Lost Coast Highway, came from a troubled home life.

She grew up with her mother, Mary Christine Walsh and her older brother Andrew Trimble,

but her father, Jerry, wasn't ever really in the picture.

Jerry was an alcoholic that abandoned the family before Francine was even born and contributed

about just as much financially.

The other father figures that Francine would look up to, boyfriends in short-term husbands

of her mother, Mary, were even worse, subjecting everyone in the house to regular abuse.

Francine was very much the opposite of her friend, Cary, in every possible way.

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