This is Captain Gilbert Imlay we had a brief relationship while he worked for the American Embassy in France. He had fought in the American revolution and when the French revolution started, we realized that nobody was safe and registered as husband and wife at the American embassy. Soon I became pregnant with his child and gave birth to a baby girl named Fanny, after my childhood best friend Fanny Blood. One day he returned to London on business and never came back leaving Fanny and I to fend for ourselves.

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