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My name is Colette Corry, and Colette Wolff was my aunt. Aunt Colette was always a glamorous figure, and I was proud to be named for her. I often thought that the consolation for not being blond like my sister was that my long brown hair made me look just a little like my beautiful aunt.

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She was not my aunt by blood, but I wanted to be like her. At college, my mother, Irmtraut Wolff known as Irmie , thought Colette should meet her older brother Theodore Wolff known as Teddy , a painter and student of art history. Colette was an actress enrolled in the school of speech with my mother, and Teddy knew the elegant Colette by sight.

He told Irmie that he had no interest in someone so unapproachable. Then, the story goes, they met, fell in love and married. As a matter of fact, when my mother married my father, Aunt Colette designed and sewed the gowns for the bride and the wedding party. Colette had grown up in Madison, the eldest of four — two girls and two boys. Colette and her siblings lived in a large house on a lake with their grandmother and Aunt Byrnina while their parents traveled around the piano bars of the midwest, their father singing and their mother playing the piano or the organ for sing-alongs.

This arrangement was supposed to be temporary, but it lasted for years. Colette was multi-talented. Her sister Lucretia recalls that Colette might have been a professional pianist or singer if she chose. After her years pursuing acting, and after running a small antiques shop in New York City called Interiors , Colette delved more deeply into the sewing or stitchery that she had enjoyed her entire life.

From childhood, I knew my Aunt Colette made dolls. She later gifted me the prototype hippo from her Platypus collection, along with Giggles the Jester.