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==Ethel Blair==

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~~Born Ethel Blair~~, the ~~daughter~~ of Woodbury Blair and Maria Anderson. ~~Her parents~~ had ~~married~~, but ~~later their marriage was annuled~~. It's ~~not clear yet the exact timing of~~ the marriage, ~~annulment, and~~ birth ~~of Ethel~~, ~~but~~ she ~~was given up at~~ birth ~~by her~~ mother, and ~~later~~ adopted by the Fogg family.

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A remarkable story is related by Patricia Bosworth in her biography of Montogomery Clift about his mother's birth. According to her report, she was told that Ethel "Sunny" had been born from the union of Woodbury Blair and Maria Anderson. Maria had formed an attachment to Woodbury, but her mother disapproved of the relationship. Maria and Woodbury continued meeting without her mother's approval and eventually married secretly. When her mother learned about the marriage, she had it or forced Maria to have it annulled.

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Either during this period or shortly afterward Maria became pregnant. When it came time for the child's birth, they went away and she gave birth in Pennsylvania. Her mother forcing her to agree to give the child up for adoption. The doctor who delivered the child, kept her for a year, and finally she was adopted by the Fogg family. She would not learn the truth of her birth until she was 18. The Blair family never accepted this story, at least they had not by the time of Patrica's book in 1978, calling it "hogwash" according to her report. The Anderson family did accept the story, at least some of them.

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 ==Ethel Blair==
-Born Ethel Blair, the daughter of Woodbury Blair and Maria Anderson.  Her parents had married, but later their marriage was annuled.  It's not clear yet the exact timing of the marriage, annulment, and birth of Ethel, but she was given up at birth by her mother, and later adopted by the Fogg family.
+A remarkable story is related by Patricia Bosworth in her biography of Montogomery Clift about his mother's birth.  According to her report, she was told that Ethel "Sunny" had been born from the union of Woodbury Blair and Maria Anderson.  Maria had formed an attachment to Woodbury, but her mother disapproved of the relationship.  Maria and Woodbury continued meeting without her mother's approval and eventually married secretly.  When her mother learned about the marriage, she had it or forced Maria to have it annulled.
+Either during this period or shortly afterward Maria became pregnant.  When it came time for the child's birth, they went away and she gave birth in Pennsylvania.  Her mother forcing her to agree to give the child up for adoption.  The doctor who delivered the child, kept her for a year, and finally she was adopted by the Fogg family.  She would not learn the truth of her birth until she was 18.  The Blair family never accepted this story, at least they had not by the time of Patrica's book in 1978, calling it "hogwash" according to her report.  The Anderson family did accept the story, at least some of them.
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