Surviving the incident, the Allens then moved to live in Central City. As a child misfit, Barry turned to reading comic books in his spare time (a habit that was supported by his mother) and grew up reading the adventures of his favorite superhero, Flash (Jay Garrick), and acted out many of his hero's adventures with his friend, Daphne Dean, until an unexplained accident resulted in their family home being burnt to the ground.
While quite curious and smart, Barry's tendency to day dream and his habit of being physically slow led to a lot of teasing from the more sports-oriented children. Nora and her husband, Dr Henry Allen, left non-the-wiser and raised their "surviving" son, Bartholomew Henry Allen, in the small midwestern farming community of Fallville, Iowa. Gilmore, in his drunken logic, told the Allens that one of the boys had been stillborn and gave one of the twins to the Thawne family as compensation for the child he accidentally killed. However, Nora successfully gave birth to twin boys. Gilmore's negligence resulted in Charlene Thawne's child dying after being strangled by its own umbilical cord. Preforming the deliveries while intoxicated, Dr.
Gilmore alongside another pregnant woman named Charlene Thawne. On May 13th, Nora Thompson-Allen, pregnant with twins, was admitted to the office of Dr.