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==Getting the Barksdale Timeline Straight==
[[image:amy-idont1.gif|left|frame|Amy Barksdale in "[[I Don't]]"]]
Amy Barksdale is the youngest Barksdale sister, behind [[Rita Barksdale|Rita]] (the oldest) and Helen. [[Glenn Eichler]] said in an interview that at the time of "[[I Don't]]," when Daria was 16, Rita was "about 48-49," Helen "45-46," and Amy "about 40." This estimate is only roughly consistent with the dates in [[Richard Lobinske]]'s essay, [http://www.outpost-daria.com/essay/rl_daria_temporal_analysis_project.html "The Daria Temporal Analysis Project,"] but even the data from the show itself did not match up exactly.
 
We are reasonably sure that Helen was born in the summer of 1950, though she was likely 47 at the time of "I Don't," which probably took place in spring 1998 (before Helen's 48th birthday). Amy Barksdale would then have been born about 1958, give or take a year, and Rita about 1947-1948. This becomes important later in working out the major events of Amy's childhood.
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