1. The character "77241" is named by a Designation Number. The Designation Number, 77241, was derived from the movie title "Call Northside 777", starring James Stewart. The number in the movie's title, 777, was split up into its three digits : 7 - 7 - 7. Then, the last digit was split up into a summation 7 = 2+4+1. Finally, all these digits were recombined, creating the number 77241, a five-digit number which correponds with the five-digit format of an old-style telephone number, as noted by the "Marilyn" character stortly after she appears in the story. The character, "James Stewart", also makes a cameo appearance in the Second Wish (Part Two) of the story.

2. The character of "Jennie Nance", the young girl, who is appearing in Part Three and Part Four as Marilyn Monroe's great-grandmother as a young girl in 1865, was based on the real person, Jennie Nance, who was indeed Marilyn's great-grandmother and Miss Nance was 8 years old at the time of Lincoln's assassination on April 14, 1865.

3. In Part Two of the novel, 19 year-old "Mrs. Norma Jeane Dougherty" makes an appearance at the Blue Book Modeling Agency, seeking employment on August 2, 1945. In truth, the young Norma Jeane Dougherty (later in November of that year to choose her "stage name" of "Marilyn Monroe") did, indeed, obtain her first modeling job at the Blue Book Modeling Agency on August 2, 1945.

4. The descriptions of the distortions created to "Marilyn's", "77241's" and "Dr. John Blight's" bodies outside of the protection of the Time Bubble near the Black Hole are, in fact, accurate. These kinds of length- and preception-distortions would occur to any human body approaching a Black Hole in space, as they accelerate to speeds approaching the speed of light.

5. All time references aboard the Time Bubble are always, initially based on GMT. That is why although the time indicator was displaying 14:44 on the initial time trip, the scene of the Time Bubble was at night time over Los Angeles, which is on PST, Pacific Standard Time, on January 16, 2080, which was eight time zones earlier.

6. All days of the week mentioned in any date in the novel (whether they be past, present or future) were, are and will be correct, even allowing for leap-years!

7. All technical specifications of the steam train in Part Three of the novel were correct for a passenger steam train of 1865, including the references made to the emergency switches Marilyn tries to use to slow the train while she was aboard the engine.

8. The smaller towns mentioned along the route used by the steam train as it nears San Francisco, were along the exact (and only) route any steam train would have used to get to San Francisco approaching from the northeast in April of 1865.

9. A young Mark Twain is a major character in the third and fourth parts to the story. He makes his first appearance aboard the steam train, traveling from Washington to San Francisco. In reality, this was quite logical for him to be aboard that train in April of 1865, as Samuel Langhorn Clemens (as he was better known in 1865, having only recently adopted the pen name "Mark Twain" at that time) did work in San Francisco in 1865 as a reporter on a local newspaper and often corresponded with those in Washington while gathering political news for his column's articles. So, in the story, he is simply returning home to San Francisco, after having completed another round of fact-gathering in Washington for the newspaper he was employed by at that time.

10. The Union Pacific passenger train "Marilyn", "Sam" and "Jennie" travel on in Part Three of the novel has the train number U.P. 109. The ticket Jennie was carrying at the Washington train station was denoted by Passenger Train ticket #109. There is a subtle bit of humor injected here. Passenger Train 109 means "PT 109" the call letters to Lt. John F. Kennedy's boat during World War II.

11. In Part II of the story, Marilyn teaches Adam (77241) how to drive her very first, owned car -- a 1935 Ford coupe. In truth, Marilyn did own a 1935 Ford coupe that she and her first husband, James Dougherty, purchased in 1944. Her husband did actually place the car up on blocks (as was told in the story) and took the keys away from his then wife, then going by her original name "Norma Jeane", as a means of protecting her from her own, questionable driving habits. Mrs. Norma Jeane Dougherty, you see, had a rather "heavy foot" while driving. Her driving skills (or rather, the lack of them) were the cause of several minor "fender-benders" over the years. Marilyn retained the Ford coupe as part of the divorce settlement between her and James Dougherty in 1946. Marilyn Monroe still owned the 1935 Ford coupe at the time of her death in August of 1962.

12. In Part One of the story, 77241 lands in the Nevada Desert on the date June 5, 1960. As the story begins to unfold, it is the next day, June 6, 1960, when he and Marilyn begin their first journey together through time. June 6, 1960 marked the 16th anniversary of D-Day, June 6, 1944. The choice of the duo beginning their journey on June 6, 1960 was intentional. One of the time periods visited in the time journey of Part One was D-Day, June 6, 1944. 

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