Beth Wallace - Retconning

Retconning

Beth's history has been retconned on more than one occasion. When the show began, her family (father, mother, older brother) had once owned the Book Café, but had sold it to the Cranes to pay for her mother's hospital bills. Unfortunately, her mother had later died. When her mother was introduced into the scene, Beth's back story was completely destroyed. She no longer had an older brother, and the father she had often spoken of ceased to exist. It is unknown where Beth and her mother came by the name Wallace, as Mr. Wallace was established to be a guy that had lived in the house when Beth was older, but her mother had never married him.