Dede's Timeline From "In the Time of the Butterflies"

v  Around 1925 – Dede’s birth

v  1938 – Dede goes away to Immaculada Concepcion

v  1943 – Dede’s Father gives fortune of Dede; beginning of the end, resistance beginning of the involvement of the Las Mariposas

v  1948 – Dede Marries Jaimito (who is also her cousin)

v  1949 – (October 12) Dede goes to the discovery day dance with Minerva which is where there conflict starts with the Maribal Sisters and the government

v  1954 – Dede and Jaimito moves back to family farm and they already have  2 children

v  1950 – Ice cream shop fails

v  1959 – Patria ask Dede if group could be held at the family farm

v  1960 – The Maribal sisters continued to ask about using property; Dede did not get involed

v  1994 – Dede is now living in Dominican Republic in Ojo De Agua, At the Family Farm house while running the museum and is still involved with her nieces and nephews, she is the only sister left alive

      Dede’s Life