| Modesty (and parents?) on the run in the Balkans | 1938-1940? (MB pg 80) |
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| Modesty in prison camp in Greece | 1940? ("soon after the war started") (MB pg 80) |
| Modesty walked from Greece to Persia | Before she was 11 (ST pg 177) |
| Modesty is child in Middle East D.P. camp | 1945 (MB pg 5) |
| Modesty finds friend, old man, in a refugee camp in Iraq | (MB pg 80) |
| Modesty and friend in and out of half a dozen refugee and DP camps | Five-year period (MB pg 80) |
| Modesty raped near Baalbeck, Lebanon | Modesty 12 (MB pg 136) |
| Willie in Battle of Dien Bien Phu, Vietnam, with French Foreign Legion | 1954 |
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| Modesty makes it her goal to amass £ ½ mill. | Modesty 17 (MB pg 80) |
| First record of Modesty, working in Tangier | Modesty 17 (approx.) (MB pg 13) |
| Modesty takes over gambling establishment | Modesty 18 (approx.) (MB pg 13) |
| Modesty runs The Network | For almost 8 years (ST pg 34) |
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| Modesty first meets Willie in Saigon | 2 or 3 years after starting The Network (MB pg 14) |
| Modesty first meets Willie in Saigon | 7 years before start of MB (MB pg 25, 52) |
| Modesty first meets Willie in Saigon | Modesty is 20 (approx.) (MB pg 121) |
| Willie joins The Network | 6 or 7 years before breakup of The Network (MB pg 14) |
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| Modesty has relationship with Mike Delgado | Modesty 21, 5+ years before ST (ST pg 100, 129) |
| Modesty has business with Vecchi in Catania, sees Vecchi's man Forli | 4 years before ST (ST pg 138) |
| Modesty and Willie "ran into bad trouble in Beirut", Modesty raped | Modesty 22 (approx.) (MB pg 136) |
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| Modesty married and divorced derelict Englishman in Beirut | 1962 (MB pg 14) |
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| Modesty disbands The Network, moves to England | 11 months before start of MB story (MB pg 15) |
| Start of MB story | Modesty is 26 (approx.) (MB pg 5) |
| Willie in prison in S. America in chapter 2 of MB. | Willie is 34 years old. (MB pg 25) |
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