#the ghost of carrie fisher shakes her fist anytime someone draws an older woman with the face of a barbie doll

[fandombydaylight]

The Nurse's Age

Sally Smithson is in her early 40's, at youngest, but I'm gonna pick 44 for my headcanon age.

My basis for this is as follows:

- Teenage marriage was not as common in the early 1900s as we are lead to believe nowadays, but even if she WAS only 18 when first marrying her late husband, the lore states that they were not only married long enough to move to a new town together, but for Andrew to build them a house (implied on his own). That could not have been a full-time gig, since he had to work to support them as well, which extends the timeframe even further; two years is a reasonable amount considering tools/tech of the period.

- Even if Sally had just hit 20 when Andrew died, the lore then says that she worked at Crotus Penn for at least 2 decades, with possibly an extra year or two on top of that. This is where we do math, bear with me.

20(age @ minimum) + 20(years employed @ minimum) = 40(age @ minimum, again)

- She is an almost middle-aged woman, whose personal and professional lives were both intensely stressful, and ultimately lead to her breakdown & abduction into the Fog.

What is my point to all of this?

I Had Best Be Seeing Some Wrinkes on Sally Smithson's Face, Y'all.