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When Anna Carteret was 11 years old, she threw her little brother Oliver, whom she adored, into the Ittybittywasee river near her house. The current was strong and pulled his body away from the town - it was never found, and no one ever suspected that his disappearance had anything to do with Anna. About 8 months after she threw him into the river, Anna’s father, whose nervous condition was complicated by the incident, decided a change of scenery was in order. Bidding his family goodbye, he embarked on a 3-month safari in Africa. Upon his return(to the states), he had a stopover in California, and whilst visiting the world famous San Diego Zoo, he was fiercely attacked by a Bengal tiger and died 3 days later at the hospital, where he contracted a virus from a sick orderly. Anna’s mother, upon hearing this news, was so distraught that she , in classical ironic form threw herself into the same river that Oly had been thrown into almost exactly a year earlier. Consequently, Anna was sent to live with family in the suburbs of Chicago, and it was there, after 9 uneventful years, that she met Roger Curtis Jr., a charmingly awkward balloon stand attendant . After just (however many months) Anna and Roger Curtis Jr. were married and moved to Minnesota, where he took over running Curtis’ Crackers founded by Roger Curtis Sr in 1906. Anna never told anyone about killing her brother, which, incidentally, she had done quite intentionally.