This is the clearest screencap I could find of the birth announcement, but I thought it was something that definitely needs to be talked about here. The left side definitely says "Mr and Mrs DiLaurentis take pleasure in announcing the birth of a son, Jason Matthew" on the top half, but the bottom is much more difficult to make out except for ending in "Los Angeles, California". The second starts and ends the same way, but has a different name name after "birth of a son", it looks to me like Bradley Todd, but I can't be certain.
What's the most interesting to me is that the second name is not Charles, and the fact that the birth announcements have different text on the bottom half. Now, it's possible this was a prop made before the name Charles was told to the people in charge of props and was never meant for the text to be readable, but it also could be a clue.
ETA: Playing with it in photoshop and trying all the guesses revealed this full translation, which I typed out in a post below:
I believe after viewing some of your great screen shots ,that the birth announcements are for
1) Jamie Matthew Rivers
And
2)Radley Todd Rivers
Caleb has the last name Rivers. He found out the man he always thought was his uncle( Jamie Rivers) was his birth father. Having those two announcements in his soul room tells me Caleb is Charles. Please see my other post about this. Couldn't have figured it out without your all great screen shots!!
Well. I made a mistake. The second birth announcement was Rodney not Radley, but as I was reading the thread here it took forever for someone to realize that if this boy was born in 1970, the so called Jason birth announcement that I think is Jamie Rivers, he could NOT BE OUR JASON as he would be in his forties!!!!!
That is another reason why I think the birth announcement is for JAMIE RIVERS( Caleb's dad) and Jamie's brother Rodney who Caleb thought was his birth father for many years until Hannah helped figure out who his dad is.
Discovering A: it canNOT be Charles or Rhys's birth certificate as both men are a WHOLE GENERATION younger than these birth certificates read. These birth certificates are for two men who would be in their late 40s now, not their 20s like Jason or Charles or Rhys because they were born in 1970 and 1972
I just read on Reddit that someone from the show rented that picture of the babies as a prop. His name was Wm. Dibasio. Something like that.
But you know what? I don't believe him. I think it def pointed to Caleb and the Rivers family. Maybe they decided it would upset the shippers too much,so they changed villains
I'm so sick of the ships determining the show. Life isn't like that. We don't all get happily ever afters. That's reality
KatyBookworm wrote: It's just the font. A lot of cursive fonts will do that when you have two capital letters in a name, it'll almost look like a space between both parts, so it looks like "Di Laurentis".
It is possible that it's another last name, but to me it looks like the second part starts with an "L" and ends with an "S", and with the first part being so short, I'm not sure what else it could be. The first baby name is definitely "J___ Matthew", almost certainly "Jason Matthew", which has me leaning towards DiLaurentis as well.
I think it's Mr. and Mrs. Readly!!! Maybe they were the creators of the Readly Sanitarium!!!
I don't know, in all honesty it doesn't even look like Rivers or Radley to me. Definitely not Marin.
'Jason Matthews' can't be Jamie Matthews, because there is no blurred dot where an "i" should be, like it appears on every other "i" in the frame. The last names look like a "P" that's shifted over to the other letters. This font is typically very scaled together, so that "R" could even be a "P". Anybody who's done a PLL graphic and used their logo font or fonts alike, all of the letters are in italic, so it's very condensed.
Caleb would be a great story though, considering we've been hearing all throughout the series how he's been fostered from family to family and he's always pushed to know what's going on in Hanna's life.