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Name: Jane Katherine Herald-Daniels

Age: 42

Role: Brendon’s mother

Likes:
Flowers
Sunshine
Animals
Their farmhouse
Cooking & cleaning
Her family
Gardening
Making people happy
Church
Summer
The idea of being a grandmother someday

Dislikes:
Bad crop season
Other people bringing her husband up
Being away from her kids
Messy rooms
War

Personality:
Jane is a loving mother. She does everything in her power to make sure that her children are happy and healthy, but sometimes that turns into her being way too overprotective. After her husband died she pulled her youngest daughter out of the public school system and began to home school her, also encouraging her older daughter to stay close to home if she wanted to go to college. Brendon was already off at Harvard and she knew he would be unhappy if she convinced him to return to the farm, so instead, everyday she would send off a letter to her son, just filling him in on life and making sure he was okay. She tries her best to keep her mind off of her late husband by cooking, cleaning and spending hours gardening and harvesting the crops on their property. Recently Jane has been gaining weight as she has been eating and cooking much more out of depression. It is true that she is depressed but no one would really know due to the optimistic wall she has put up. Her husband’s death also is the cause of her obsession over going to church at least one time per day. She is a holy woman and pushes her children to be as well, but some think that it is just part of her grieving process.

Background:
Jane was born into a middle-class family in Oklahoma forty-two years ago. She was the second child of five, and the only girl. Most of her time was spent indoors, as the children were all homeschooled by their mother and she was also taught how to be a good housewife. At a young age she was showed how to cook and clean properly, and just like any little girl, her mother was her role model. When she would watch the older woman plant flowers in the fields in their backyard to sell in the spring when customers came around to their stand, Jane realized that she wanted to do the same thing when she got older.
She was fifteen when she was introduced to Joseph Daniels, a boy her age who lived down the street on his own farm with his family. The two dated for four years before marrying, soon after having three children. Joseph was the love of Jane's life and the man of the home. He was the one out their with the employees making sure that the crops were all growing properly and he would be the one selling the animals and purchasing them when the time came. So, when he was diagnosed with cancer at such a young age, Jane panicked. She began to spend much of her time at church and even after Joseph died she would go to church for at least an hour a day to pray that her beloved husband was safe in the Lord's hands. It was all that she could do as she watched her life slowly sink away. The family is struggling to make ends meet, and Jane has had to cut down on her employees' salaries to make sure that she could keep up with the payments on the property. She has begun to feel like a failure because she can not pamper her youngest daughter like teenage girls should be, and she couldn't even afford plane tickets to go to Brendon's graduation ceremony at Harvard. However, when she receives news that Brendon will be returning home she is overjoyed, as she hates seeing her children go away in fear that she might lose them in an instant, just like she lost Joseph.

Other:
She spends her days homeschooling her youngest daughter and working their farmstand for the rest of the day. Their stand sells flowers, vegetables, fruits, homemade desserts, jellies, milk, cheese, etc.