Claire Donald
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
She wrote this at five years old.
She wrote this at five years old.
But you know what?
When you're, when you are like five, like around that age, you can kind of say or make, you can imagine anything.
And sometimes it is the darkest things ever.
Cause you're like, who cares before, you know, like how people will take that.
Well, exactly.
Imagine her mom being like, I wonder what Joan wrote down today.
It's like, oh my God.
Oh my God.
Always pretty.
Oh my God.
Always a little scary when you go back to your childhood notebooks and it's like death.
Truly a lot of death stuff.
Yeah, well, Tess, that didn't actually come out of nowhere.
Her dad was very depressed.
Her mom was the one that was more vocal and would, like, tell Joan and her brother Jim all of these stories.
And one of the stories was how their family arrived in California.
Her family traveled with the Donner Party.
To California.