Rachel Sharma

"I know it was hard me living, but I couldn't do that to your father, your siblings...... I had to go. I couldn't-coul-couldn't let him watch me slowly disappear, changing my dirty, bloody bed sheets. I couldn't do that to my family" ― Rachel to Benjamin, when he is in the in-betweenRachel Sharma nee Nichols was the matriarch of the Sharma family until her death. She was happily married to Jacob Sharma and even opened up their own restaurant called Sharma Kitchen.
Rachel with her husband, had three children named Judith, Nathaniel and Matthew. She also adopted and raised Jacob's son Benjamin from a previous relationship as her own child. 
== Biography ==
=== Early Life ===
=== Death and Impact ===
== Personality and Appearance ==
== Etymology ==
* Rachel is from the Hebrew name רָחֵל (Rachel) meaning "ewe". In the Old Testament this is the name of the favourite wife of Jacob. Her father Laban tricked Jacob into marrying her older sister Leah first, though in exchange for seven years of work Laban allowed Jacob to marry Rachel too. Initially barren and facing her husband's anger, she offered her handmaid Bilhah to Jacob to bear him children. Eventually she was herself able to conceive, becoming the mother of Joseph and Benjamin.
* Nichols is derived from Nicholas which is from the Greek name Νικόλαος (Nikolaos) meaning "victory of the people", derived from Greek νίκη (nike) meaning "victory" and λαός (laos) meaning "people". 
* Sharma means "protection, comfort, joy" in Sanskrit. 
== Trivia ==
* Her surname is a reference to Nichelle Nichols, who famously portraited Nyota Uhura on Star Trek. 
*Rachel was dying of stomach cancer before she committed suicide. 
* Rachel loved gin and cognac. 
* She used to read stories about mythology and folklore to her children as bedtimes stories something Benjamin carried on as he had children. 
* Despite being married to a chief, Rachel was a horrible cook and could burn water.
*He two youngest granddaughters were named after her: Nico and Rachel.
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