Alice Carlini

Alice Carlini is the mother of Jason, Tom, and Harmony Carlini and the wife of Nathan Carlini.

## Biography

Alice Carlini was born Alice Nell Esper to Paul Allen Esper and Mary Roberts Esper on January 25, 1956 in Lake Charles, Louisiana. When Alice was twelve years old, the family relocated to Portland, Oregon.

As the Espers were devout southern baptists, they tried their hardest to blend in to the local baptist church in Oregon. However, they felt it was disingenuous and stopped going eventually, but not before Alice met Nathan Carlini. Alice and Nathan became fast friends, and later started dating in high school. After graduating, Alice and Nathan got married in 1978.

Alice had her first son, Jason, in 1979. She worked at her job until a mere three weeks before she gave birth, after which she used up her maternity leave and then quit to become a stay-at-home mom. From this point, Alice dreamed of becoming a homesteader. Between the birth of her second son Tom and her only daughter Harmony, Alice convinced Nathan, who had just started a job he traveled for anyways, to buy some land in northern California and build her a house, a chicken coop, and a hunting cabin. The family relocated to the Klamath Mountains in California in 1982, and Alice quickly set up a homestead complete with a large vegetable patch and chickens. Alice devoted her late 20s and 30s to homesteading and raising her children, while her husband was gone for sometimes weeks at a time.

In 1992, Alice's daughter Harmony disappeared. Alice searched the woods for her daughter but was never able to find her. After Alice was declared legally dead in 1997, Alice withdrew from her love of the property. She sold off her chickens and, after both of her sons moved out, moved to an apartment in Sacramento. Alice was unable to convince Nathan to sell the property, and the Carlinis maintained it as a vacation home and rented it out to make extra income.

On September 23, 2001, Alice's husband was shot and killed in a hunting accident. Alice became distraught following this, and relied heavily on the support of her sons, though they both lived out of town at this point. Alice did not embrace the roll of widow, and began working again as a schoolteacher in Sacramento.

In 2010, Alice suffered a series of strokes that left her suffering from seizures and unable to walk without the assistance of a walker. She was forced to retire from her job. Though her older son Jason offered her to move in with him in Texas, she declined to leave California. Alice briefly returned to the Klamath Property from 2012 to 2015, but as her condition deteriorated and her seizures became more frequent she was forced to move back to Sacramento to seek medical attention. In 2018, following a second stroke, Alice was diagnosed with early onset dementia. By 2020, she was living in an assisted living facility with her personal physician, Samuel.

Over mother's day weekend 2020, Alice was taken by her sons and their families back out to the family property. They stayed in the mountain house from May 8th to May 12th, after which they returned to Sacramento. Jason remained with Alice for another week, while Tom and both sons' families returned home. Three weeks later, on June 1, 2020, Alice Carlini passed away in her sleep. She was sixty-four years old. Alice was buried on the Klamath Property alongside her husband. Due to the 2020 Coronavirus Pandemic, her memorial service was held on June 1, 2021, the one year anniversary of her death.

## Personality

Alice is a humble caregiver who always puts her family first, though she can be known to put on airs and let her southern upbringing shine through. A bright woman, Alice never received a formal education but also never let that get in the way of her love of learning. She is very well learned in nature and in homesteading skills, and is an expert engineer. Even when Nathan was alive, Alice was the glue that kept the family together, but she really came into her own after his death. Alice was unquestionably the head of the Carlini family from Nathan's death in 2001 until after her second stroke in 2018.

## Trivia

* Alice Carlini is named after the sim Alice Spencer-Kim from The Sims 4
* Much of Alice's character is based off a woman author Hazel Baumgartner knew in real life, though she will not disclose her identity
* Despite being named after the sim Alice Spencer-Kim, Alice Carlini closer physically resembles the sim Summer Holiday