younger sister and younger brother and a younger sister was very young and so most likely mary who was the mother was purchased as a kind of made for the infant, and so that s when they would meet and the household kind of came together in that fashion. so they kind of grew up together? the did grow up together. and in fact, the younger children, fanny s number brother and sister died quite young in the mid 1830 s, one right after the other. so, you know, you can imagine this big family of four and it goes a big family of six goes to a family of four and all of a sudden fanny is no longer the big sister, she s little girl again and of a person nearest to her age in the house is cecilia, so they do grow up as companions and probably something close to friends when they were younger because at that point the fanny wouldn t have had a lot of slave mistress expectations on her, not yet. and cecilia would have had chores and tasks to do but she would have been a kind of i gu