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Apparently Tori Spelling inherited less than Lacey might, technically. But…Tori Spelling inherited $800,000.00. In the 2000’s.

September by Sparky Deathcap plays.

…”Tori Spelling is poor now!” says a woman on TikTok.

The thing is…$800,000.00 isn’t…nothing. If Lacey inherited $800,000.00 today…you’d hate her. Thoroughly loathe her.

But…Aaron Spelling was worth $500,000,000.00. in Hollywood. And Lacey was raised in Minnesota and while the oil might be actually worth billions…it’s…collectively shared in an old money family from North Dakota. So…Lacey knows how to use $800,000.00 very cautiously and meticulously. Whereas Tori, being new money from Hollywood…did not…and yet…didn’t have to anyway…for most of her life.

Lacey looks…scary. Because she is. Tori…likely isn’t an idiot…but…old money skills are not easily acquired in adulthood…and…so…she made $800,000.00 look like nothing.

…Of course, the truth is…it looks weird that Tori only inherited $800,000.00. Very weird. Inappropriate, actually. …Cruel. She should have inherited $70,000,000.00 or so. If her family wanted to be conservative. The “Boomer” trend of leaving your kids with nothing after spoiling them into impairment their whole life…is…abusive, sick and twisted in Lacey’s personal opinion.

Of course…Lacey experienced the exact opposite. Her parents were…very careful with money…and exceedingly spartan in their living choices as people. Deciding on art and post secondary teaching as career paths…and then deciding to be missionaries instead…and then…flailing with that for the rest of their lives. They have amazing work ethic…but…they never did anything lucrative. They’re conservative with their money…but they’re also foolish or at least questionable at times in serious ways. …Lacey is still shocked by what she inherited to be honest. Her measly $250,000.00. And…if she inherits more…she’ll be shocked then too.

See…Tori wasn’t prepared for her life. But neither was Lacey.

When Tori was being given millions and millions and millions of Dollars for most of her life…she wasn’t being told to be careful. She wasn’t being trained to be scared of losing it. …When Lacey was dreaming of Vassar…her father was viciously mocking her for doing so and telling her to go to community college because “That’s what our family can afford!” he said cruelly. Lacey would have loved to major in art history…but…her parents didn’t say it wasn’t for her…but rather that she’d be poor if she majored in art history or history…or art…or English.

Tori needed money from her family to be functional…the way they raised her. It seems. Lacey…on the other hand…was also given a horribly false view of reality.

Love (Fade) by Tamaryn plays.

Lacey already was…terrified of becoming evil. She still is. By nature. …The truth is…by abusing her psychologically the way her parents did…they exhausted and paralyzed her mentally when it came to her education. She ignored her instincts and…never graduated…because…it didn’t matter to her that she was deeply unhappy. And she always thought she could just do what she had always done, which was to force herself to grin and bear her pain without letting herself feel it. Not through drugs or alcohol or money or even the goodness of real unconditional love…but through sheer force of will.

And…of course…Lacey’s will has been worshipping Christ since she was two years old. As all of our wills should be.

…But…even with God’s unconditional love…humans still need other humans. That’s how God created us.

Suspirium Finale by Thom Yorke plays.

“All was well…as long as they kept spinning.” says Lem. “But then Tori got cut off and Lacey couldn’t be poor.”

“What do you mean, ‘She couldn’t be poor?’” says a hater.

“She can’t.” says Lem. “She is essentially allergic to it. She had opportunities to be…but…it thoroughly repulsed her.” He thinks. “Her parents really are old money.”

“What happened?” asks someone.

“She…was going into debt…and still could…but she gets terrified. And then…she spends very wisely. She takes risks…but…there’s money there…and she’s already worried. Even with her expensive tastes. So she…overcompensates.” says Lem. “She is totally detached from material possessions outside of their use in warfare. Literally.” He thinks. “She enjoys things but only with the thought of some horrible epic war in mind.”

“Tori spends always thinking everything will be okay…no matter what…and everyday is her sixth birthday.” says a dead woman.

“Lacey’s cortisol levels must be…scary.” says a man.

“Yes! They have been her whole life.” says Lem.

“They literally messed up the chemicals in their brains.” says a man.

“Well…in their bodies. Yes.” says Lem.

“So Lacey couldn’t finish college why?” asks a woman.

“Because she just…wanted…to sleep. All the time.” says Lem. “She was only ever truly happy when she was asleep.” He thinks. “She couldn’t force herself to stay awake. There was nothing to be awake for.”

“And you don’t mean…like high?” asks another woman.

Heartless by Kanye West plays.

“No. Asleep is different than high.” says Lem. “Lacey wanted to sleep.”

“So…we literally…gave her nothing to live for.” says a hater with fake empathy.

“Yeah! That’s true.” says Lem.

In My Hood by 50 Cent plays.

“No, Aaron would have been scared of Tommy Banks. Even with his money. But…Aaron would have been…confused by the Nesheims. Truly.” says a dead woman.

“See…Lacey has that. Lots of that. That be real. But…she didn’t and doesn’t have star power or hundreds of millions.” says a dead man. “At her easy disposal. Even with the oil…it’s not like she can sell it and be worth hundreds now.” says another dead woman. “But…it’s a dangerous weapon…regardless.”

What’s The Difference by Dr. Dre plays.

“Lacey could possibly start World War III.” says Lem. “And it’s not the grandiosity of a narcissist. It’s self-defense and science…after the Illuminati attacked her. When she accidentally discovered them. …She’s the ‘lady on the plane’…but with an old money Great Gatsby dad. And…possible sanity. And…it’s…real. If it be real…it’s real. …And Tori…is Tori.” He thinks. “That’s not an insult. If she’s sincere.” He thinks. “I’m not nice anymore. You can thank the best friend anyone’s ever had…Jack Kennedy, for that.” He thinks. “That was sarcasm. In case you didn’t see it.”

“So you’re in love with Jack?!??” asks a gay man who’s a Kem holdout.

“No! It was anger! I was angry!!!” yells Lem. “I HATE THE KENNEDY’S!”

“So you’re mocking yourself for always kissing their asses? Huh. Why?” asks a hater.

Lem scowls. “Why wouldn’t I!? I…was absurdly drunk on false humility and self-rejection.” says Lem. “I…tried to make the most of my shoddy life and love Jack…and…Lacey understands. She too was taught to be extremely careful to be kind out of genuine empathy.”

“So…you were worried you would hurt people?” asks a hater of Lem.

“Yes! Always. People do that to Lacey and I both. They act epically offended and hurt whenever we do the slightest thing.” says Lem. “They bully us using our actual empathy. They constantly guilt us. …And parents raised us to be extremely kind already.”

“So you both end up being obnoxiously patronizing. And in Lacey’s case she’s demonized for it. And in your case…people take your saccharine words as objective truth…instead of the sugar coated bullshit it actually was and is. However well intentioned your bullshit is. …And then they miss the biting ironic insult to Jack.” says a Spelling. “I don’t, necessarily. I hear it. You made Jack a friendship…a room in the White House…and historic events. That’s all he is. No life…’living somewhere.’ …And what’s more…you’re subtly questioning it yourself. …There’s no impassioned argument for a happiness you insist you had. It can be read that way. But…why leave it so open to interpretation? That’s…not…a strong defense…of a life.” He rolls his eyes. Scott laughs. Scott wrote in Hollywood for a while.

Mozart Symphony No. 40 plays.

“People don’t often interpret things the way we want. When we most want it. They just don’t. …Scott can easily attest to that. …And to a certain extent I can too. …Of course, I wasn’t writing great American literature for the ages. But…I was…keenly aware that even on my level of intellectual responsibility…there were…frustrating restraints.” says a Spelling. He thinks. “You’re lucky she understands at all! …You were so unclear!” He thinks. “And I refuse to say ‘If Lem was straight.’ Because I’m dead! …And I don’t think that’s right. No!”

“Lem, if you really were that…confused…I’m sorry.” says a gay man crying. “You…belonged to such a different time.”

“Well…young men today could get confused too. Easily. Far more easily than you know. …But…hopefully they’d realize they were wrong far sooner than I did.” says Lem.

“When did you start to wonder if you were just acting?” asks a psychic. “And who were you pretending to be? Who was that character?”

“I was…actually…being Jack. Jack gave me his identity and…then I lost myself in public. …I started to wonder in the late 1970’s. In the years right before my death.” says Lem. “I acted gay…but…at times…I’d…subtly disagree with myself and…do something crazy.” He thinks. “There is a photo of me staring at a hot blond. And I’m actually wondering what it would be like to go to bed with her. You can see it in my eyes. But…my mouth is contorted by force to seem…gay.” He laughs. “Of course…that had happened before. But as I aged I stopped fighting it and let my mind go wild at times. Before…I always wanted to be a Christian gentleman, to describe it in the way applicable today. There was purity culture before Millennial purity culture. And I took that very seriously, as did a great many other men in my generation. …Jack may have been more of an exception than people today realize with his promiscuity. …Anyway…the hot blond wasn’t Lacey. And…there’s always something wrong with other women. They just aren’t her.”

“You’ve told her she killed you.” says a man. “What did you mean by that?”

“I’m sorry!” yells a Spelling.

But Lacey’s parents are…still alive. And silent as the grave to Lacey. Will they go to Purgatory? Heaven? God doesn’t want anyone in Hell.

“She…did.” says Lem.

“How!?” asks Scott.

“If there is reincarnation in the Bible she put me out of misery.” says Lem. “And no, she was never Jack.” He thinks. “But…if there isn’t reincarnation…I died…knowing she was…possible.” He thinks. “I knew she could have lived…and been mine…and wasn’t. And I hated her.” He laughs. “Not the way I hated Jack.”

Gnossiennes (6), For Piano by Erik Satie plays.

“I hated her…for sleeping with other men. Because I knew she had. Or I knew she would. …Because where was she?!? …If I was to die…and find love in Heaven…who…was this woman with?!? Who?!?” says Lem seething. “I couldn’t stand it! …It haunted me.” He thinks. “And she doesn’t believe it…but it made me so mad I finally killed myself over it.”

“Why?!?” asks a psychic, contemplating this idea.

“To spy on her.” says Lem. “To meet her? To get to her.”

“Because you realized if she wasn’t with you…she was putting out for someone else.” says a Spelling.

“But she’s not loose.” says an actress.

Lem glares. “No. You’re right. …But…she isn’t frigid. In marriage. And…it’s nice to feel loved. As a man. And…she’s innocent about it. And…it’s my dinner.” he says bitterly.

“And you starved?” asks a witch.

“I ate tree bark!” yells Lem. He cries. “And I tried not to complain. To have a good attitude about it. Even enjoy it. …But it made me vomit. In one way or another.”

“So you starved?” asks the witch again.

Lem refuses to cry. “Yeah!” he says taking deep breaths.

“So…you…got a spiritual sense you were being…cheated on? And you killed yourself over it? And…possibly blamed Jack?” asks a Millennial psychic.

“Yeah. I…did. …And yet almost nobody would think that today if I wasn’t saying this. If I am. …Because it’s…so different than the widely assumed narrative. And…so…it’s difficult to comprehend as a possible narrative, even. …But…I am saying…possibly…that…I knew she was likely with another man. In my spirit. Right before I died. And it enraged me.” says Lem. “Because…I felt…like…I was being taken advantage of. Not so much by her…but…by…my wasted life and own mistakes. And I couldn’t stand it!”

“Who did you think she was?! And who did you think she was with?!?” ask a Millennial wizard.

“I knew she was like me. But…possibly wiser. Because she always…walks away. …But it’s not out of weakness…it’s the opposite. …Because she loves deeply, faithfully and truly. Forever. But…when someone violates her…she leaves fully and entirely. …And if I was straight…insane…or bisexual…I knew I had fouled-up. I knew I had lost her for correct reasons on her part. It was my mistake. But…I could fix it. And…yet…where was she?!?” he seethes. “With whom?! …Michael Rockefeller is exactly who I might have imagined. Not so much Louis or Harold. I might have worried that Jack had gotten to her first somehow. But I didn’t worry about Jack long-term. No. …It’s a man like Michael I was worried about. …Her ex-husband irritates me too. But…Joe Junior…wasn’t my biggest worry. And he should have been. But…I didn’t think it through that way.” says Lem.

Mendelssohn’s No. 12 In F-Sharp Minor, Op. 30 No. 6 plays.

“Why Joe?” asks a psychic.

“Because he’s…not Jack. And…he’s tall. And brave. And…he might not respect me much at all.” says Lem. “I understand why. But…that doesn’t mean…Lacey is his.”

The song plays.

“I don’t understand. But I’m not dead yet.” says a psychic.

“Be careful. You’re not reading the Bible. It’s…not that certain. It’s…just what it is.” says Scott. “Actually, it terrifies Lacey regardless.”

“So you were in love with her when she was young?!” asks a psychic of Lem.

“Yes! When she saw me…it was mutual love at first sight.” says Lem.

“You two…fell in love? When she was a teenager?!?” asks a psychic.

“Yes! But…she didn’t realize it. Until last night.” he says sadly.

“Until last night?!?” asks the psychic, intrigued.

“Yes. She…couldn’t hear it.” says Lem.

“That you could love her?!” asks a psychic, flabbergasted.

“She doesn’t lie.” says Lem. “Yes! She really couldn’t imagine it.” He thinks. “She recorded herself in a swimsuit yesterday…at 40. And…she knows she’s…got a good body. But…she out together the photographic evidence…and her memory of what she used to look like…and…realized how she must have looked before, when she was younger. And…it seemed less illogical last night to think I might have found her attractive. …And I actually don’t want a strong chin line or big breasts.”

“Does she look like Faye Emerson, Betty Grable and Grace Kelly physically?” asks a psychic.

“Forget it! That’s absurd!” says a Mr. Blue. He now claims Lem was gay. So do a few Millennial gay men.

“Yes! Her butt looks like Betty Grable slightly.” says Lem. “And no, her breasts aren’t big…but they’re shaped extremely well.”

Feel It All Around by Washed Out plays.

“Shaped well?!?” asks a gay man.

“Yes! She…looks like…a woman in my generation…but…with a softer, rounder body than Grace Kelly. Sort of like Betty Grable.” says Lem. “But she’s…still a rare beauty…even in my generation.” He thinks. “I don’t like big boobs. I’ve imagined them on Lacey. I don’t like them. I like her.”

“I agree.” says Michael.

“Why!?!” asks a Gen. X man.

A black man tries not to laugh.

Love & Hate (Radio Edit) by Michael Kiwanuka plays.

Demons stand next to Lacey. At attention.

She’d love to go to war with them against evil. They’re good warriors. She can sense it.

But would demons defect? Would they willingly subject themselves to Christ to fight gloriously one last time on the right side? Lacey leaves that to Christ to figure out. God is the only one who knows.

“Batten down the hatches!” yells Joe Jr. at Lacey as a command.

She does. In preparation for battle.

“If we don’t actually fight…this is pointless!” Lacey bites at Joe.

“He holds the fuse.” he says in response.

They stare at each other.

Running Up That Hill plays.

“ I wouldn’t have left you until it was secure, but I would die trying to leave you you know that don’t you?” asks Lacey of Joe.

“ I taught you to be fat feisty and you took it to heart and I find it hilarious, but I also know that you win of course if I had been in the White House, and you’ve been my first lady, it would’ve been established well, knowing fact that you and Lem’s were together, and I had my own other half.” says Joe.

“ you know I really did. Love you.” says Lacey.

“ and I want you to think there’s something wrong with you don’t I?” says Joe.

“ I think you do which probably means that in your eyes there is, but you’re too ashamed to admit that because it makes you feel bad for me.” says Lacey. “ is it my boobs are they too small be honest.”

Joe smiles. “ no that’s not what it is. I actually really have always liked women with your shape for all you know I actually shuffle Betty Grable to cheat on you. You’ve heard that I love you. You’ve heard that I don’t. I did. I think you know that you’re either not hearing correctly I actually really do I do love Pat more..” He thinks.

Later.

“ why are you so nervous when men accuse you of being in love with them and being a golddigger…if you aren’t one.“ says Mr. Blue.

“ I don’t know if you’re sure honestly that’s how I react when I’m innocent. I never get anxious when I’m guilty. Truly, I am probably different than most people live today unfortunately for them in that way. There’s something about being accused of something that I know I haven’t done that just terrifies me.” says Lacey.

“And as much as I might be a pedophile, and so it seems strange for me to say this…but is it triggering of your abuse that you experienced as a child?” asks Mr. Blue of Lacey.

“Yes and no. It’s more a feeling of being totally abandoned. By humanity. Like I’m going to be totally mutilated in every way that humans can possibly imagine in some perverse, disgusting way.” says Lacey.

“Mutilated?!?” scoffs her ex-step-mother-in-law.

“Yes, it’s that bad. I’m sorry if that bothers you to have to hear what you’ve actually done but that’s not my problem, you’re the one that did it. You can be a real dumb bitch.” says Lem to the Gen. X woman.

“See you’re just thinking we’re gonna go way too far and harm ourselves and destroy you and probably the world around us and you’re just like if you feel powerless and out of control but it’s not because you’re guilty it’s because we’re going too far.” says a Boomer to Lacey.

“Exactly, possibly exactly. My former step mother-in-law is like Mr. Blue, and frankly other people who have had delusions that I somehow was after their money, and frankly that I was probably either more or less in love than I really was.” says Lacey.

“Umm…I think women like you don’t really exist in your generation if you’re illegitimate and that’s part of what trips people up. Yeah, and I I tend to think Lem was gay but that’s because I hate you and you’re right I do hate you and it’s just jealousy you’re right it’s entirely just jealousy. If you do you, you confuse people and I think people are dumber than you realize.” says a woman.

“Then why do they make their stupidity my problem? I feel like my entire life I have just been minding my own business, and I have been nothing but imposed upon the entire time.” says Lacey.

“Yeah…you really weren’t impressed with us, but I was too heartbroken by that to be able to handle it so I decided to accuse your entire family of being con artists…which is insane…instead of just being heartbroken.” says the woman.

“I really wasn’t gay…but you would be exactly the kind of person that would still think that I was even if you read this blog occasionally and you might not you might be saying this in the afterlife, but if you read this blog, you’re absolutely right you would or do you probably think that I’m gay.” says Lem. “The problem is though I really wasn’t and Lacey really isn’t a gold-digger. But I would never taken advantage of that. I really wouldn’t have.“ says Lem.

“What do you mean you would’ve never taken advantage of that?” asks a Boomer.

“ her ex-husband has taken advantage of it to be honest. There are a great many things that she’s never asked for that other woman do I ask for those vacations really aren’t what you think they are and it’s amazing how off some people can be. And I would have held down a city job, and I probably would’ve climbed the carpet ladder and done quite well actually and been faithful, but Lacey wouldn’t have expected me to do it overnight and she would have been just as faithful, loyal and loving to me when we were in our 20s and poor as we were when we were in our 80s and rich. There would’ve been no wavering in her love for me ever unless if I really fouled-up. If women like her really don’t like drama, and they existed in my generation. They might like reading novels, and they might find art fascinating in that way, but that’s just because they’re trying to appreciate the human existence. It’s it’s not because they can’t just live study life the truth is they see drama everywhere anyway. And if that’s really all they can take. You know the little Sarah‘s hair cut you no cotton gum, piece of gum on Thursday and then you know they had to go to the doctor when she fell and he had to make sure she wasn’t gonna get a concussion and that wiped her out for a week Worried that her daughter was going to die from falling off her bike and hitting her head. And then you know week or two later someone got sick and we were up all night. And I love you from between us the safety between us was really the would have been, and really was if this had happened the only good thing to always be a constant in our lives other than God. And why would you follow that up you wouldn’t. If you wouldn’t want to, and you know not to. That would be unthinkable, more than unthinkable. And that’s what she was designed for, anything else is a hard on her and it was hard on me too.

People think I was devastated for Jack and they conjecture all these things about my psychology but unfortunately it really is all conjecture. And people think she’s extraordinarily beautiful and and she’s smart and she’s clever and wise and kind…and she has good taste…but it’s also because she’s sexual. And you could say she’s well-bred and it’s jealousy. Yes, that could probably. It’s there in a lot of cases, too. But what a lot of Boomers, and a lot of other people sense, regardless of whether or not she’s illegitimate or not…it’s that she is unusually sexual.

It isn’t that she’s lose. It’s that she’s usually sexual. And it’s in a way that is innocent and not common today.” says Lem. “But the problem, of course with your analysis is that you don’t understand the sexuality. I was sexual too and if people understood that sexuality, they probably would know that I was straight the same way that Lacey does, if I was. But…it’s not something that actually indicates she’s a gold-digger. It it’s more just that I don’t want to say energy but it’s more just who who she is. We had the Baby Boomers. We were the ones that did that.” says Lem.

“Yeah…you know you’re probably right because when I think about how loud our sexuality became after your generation, it makes me wonder if we were overcompensating for a lack of sexuality not the opposite.” says a Gen. X woman. “I’m not saying we were asexual but I’m just saying like I wonder if we’re more asexual than they were.”

“So in your generation people would’ve known she wasn’t a gold-digger. What would they have thought?” asks a woman.

Lem looks sad. “Well they would’ve thought that she wanted to settle down and get married and have a family. And that’s the other thing with my most famous quotation that has been misunderstood to an exceptional degree within the last 10 to 20 years. Getting married, settling down and having a family was celebrated and accepted for hundreds of years. Nowadays it’s most definitely not. Especially in the elite in the United States and that’s how it’s been her entire life. There are conservative elite people, but they’re shunned by the bastion of people who have power in the United States. And she knew that very well. Her family didn’t want her to just settle down and get married and have a family. Her parents thought that was either a sad reality that she had to work with by becoming a nurse in her father’s case or her mother saw it as something to fight against. Her mother, her mother thought ‘Now, you’ve gotta be a lawyer you’ve got to do well maybe you’ll have kids maybe you’ll have a husband who gives a shit!’ And her father thought well I guess your sexual how gross. And he might’ve known her mother if she’s illegitimate and known that Lacey would want to get married and have kids. And known her father. And so he would say things like, ‘So why don’t you just become a nurse or teacher or why don’t you do something where you can make money and still have a family?’ That’s all she ever heard growing-up. And young men her age certainly would never have celebrated her being a wife and mother unless if they were being edgy and cool and Republican. And so what did she end up doing? Well hiding that part of herself almost completely from everyone because it was far too shameful. That sounds, ‘Oh that’s not true that’s not true! But that’s that’s bullshit. You know if you’re reading this blog or if you’re someone who understands…no that’s bullshit. It really is or was considered shameful when Lacey was in her 20s and really through her entire youth to be a stay-at-home mom, it was old-fashioned, it was trashy, it was weak. It was immoral and it was umm considered ah…a very awful dangerous thing to do.” says Lem.

“I didn’t realize Lacey really was that well bred and that she really thought it was weird that I was freaked out by my sexuality.” says Casi. “As in like, ‘Umm…why are you freaked out about being bisexual? That’s so weird!’”

“Probably because she’s conservative and very old-fashioned and old money and so it looked familiar to you because you’re from the south and you thought it was someone who is just like you in someway but that’s not what you were seeing at all. …But you’re right she probably did think it was kind of creepy that you were that freaked out by it.” says a dead Nesheim.

“Oh no, you thought I was a total freak for being so weirded out by the fact that I was just bisexual because you were just like, ‘Umm…you’re just bisexual. That’s a strange thing to be freaked out about…but OK.’ …That’s not how I was raised. And there are a lot of people who really have been raised in our generation to just get married and have kids but you don’t know any of those people because they’re all in the lower-middle to working class and then there might be some elite people like that in the south, but you’re right and there’s a huge class divide there and that is not how you were raised.” says Casi.

“I probably wanted you to be bisexual Lacey and be in love with Casi because it made you seem lower class and you know that and it makes me look as like an idiot and it’s embarrassing.” says a perfume hater.

“Oh no, Casi either made stuff up or other people did because nothing ever happened to indicate Lacey was interested; quite the opposite. Lacey was never remotely interested in her. OK, Lacey really is straight and I may have been too. We know for a fact on this blog that Lacey is straight. And was straight. …What she was hiding and still is hiding is that she really just wanted to get married and have kids in a reasonable and responsible way.” says Lem.

“So she really felt like a closeted gay person in that way and probably still does.” says a man.

“Yes, absolutely!” says Lem. Lem thinks. “Ah Lacey’s mother cried when Lacey told her that she was pregnant with her first child after she was married.”

“Her mother cried after she was married because she wanted her to be a lawyer that badly????” asks a perfume hater.

“Yes, yes she was devastated because she felt that Lacey’s life has been ruined.” says Lem.

“What did Mark’s family think about it?” asks Casi’s mother.

“They were not particularly pleased. But his grandparents were excited to become great grandparents and see their name carried on. And if Lacey’s illegitimate, her father was not the least bit surprised by any of it. For a reason. Heroes anticipated that she’d get married and have a family and he was not necessarily in favor of it, but he just thought it was likely thing to happen. For genetic reasons. This is a man who was going to be an anthropology and sociology professor, so he was very fascinated by evolution before he became a born-again Christian. Lacey grew up hearing about genetics and familial genetic predispositions. The thing is he provided generously for his grandkids, because he anticipated that that was going to happen, and he was happy to help. But no, she secretly wanted to just get married and have kids and that is so shunned today by ‘acceptable society’ now that she’s never been honest about it because people are genuinely that hateful on that issue. And they really are. I mean it’s deeply ingrained to the point where it’s not even easily and honestly discussed as an issue of contention between social classes.” says Lem.

“Was her father that raised her-he told her she could be a nurse, a teacher, or a secretary and that’s very weird. Was he trying to raise her like she was in a different generation intentionally to mess her up or to try to be helpful?” asks a feminist perfume hater. She laughs. “Umm…you know yeah, it really is true that really is like being closeted and being gay in higher social circles today in America. At least it really is totally unacceptable.”

“Yeah and then you called her a prostitute Casi when she claimed that her legal husband’s assets were her own even though legally, that actually is true.” says Lem. “And people listened to you in the Illuminati and elsewhere because to them that is the ‘God’s honest truth!’ It is uncomfortably true. It really is like being gay and 1950s America. That film in 2010 The Kids Are All Right is 1950s bullshit repackaged, in a liberal way. And yes, and it is no mistake that And Just Like That has a gay character. Or you know, a homosexual character hot lesbian sort of bisexual or something. Cause I’m gonna get a good upstanding, moral, ending to the whole series the whole shebang it’s finished on a high note of moral superiority. People, ironically, love to say that Lacey was super conservative and conformist. But that actually is said by people who are conformist if they’re trying to be in the upper middle class or the upper class. It really is far more rebellious to be a little conservative in a genuine way nowadays and it has been for a while. Lacey‘s parents are very rebellious people, who raised her. And then yet the irony for you to enjoy Casi is that? No you’re closeted homosexuality bisexuality. Whatever you wanna call it right? Was bizarre to Lacey. Very bizarre.” says Lem.

“So when people from the south or elsewhere, have talked to Lacey and not realized that her conservative Christianity is complicated. They’ve made total fools of themselves.” says a perfume hater. “And you know what honestly it really is people that don’t understand American upper class and that’s why her orientation has been in a hot topic for the last 5 to 7 years because I don’t think people want to admit that Lacey is old money, and it gives them joy to think that she’s closeted, because that fits with their narrative, even though it’s not true, and it actually makes them seem far less elite.”

“Yeah people have only questioned her orientation when they’ve been threatened by her. There was a woman who was in love with Mark, who thought Lacey could be a lesbian for her own insecure reasons. And then there was a guy in high school who knew Lacey was friends with lesbians and that she didn’t put out and so he assumed that she was a lesbian. No one else is ever called her that, quite the opposite.” says Lem.

“But she actually would have just not for him, right?” asks a woman.

“That’s a very serious theological question actually. Because the answer is yes, but I say that cautiously because it’s easily misunderstood. She doesn’t believe in marriage, and yet she does at the same time. To her marriage is a fallen institution and a redeemed one at the same time.” says Lem.

“Umm…so then yes she would’ve for you, but with the idea that you were going to get married and you really would have.” says a dead man to Lem.

“Yes! I, I would’ve married her. I know in many ways her life is the tragic opposite of mine and mine was tragic, but I gave her a dream that she was dying of a drug overdose and so thankfully, she’s never had any sort of substance addiction and she’s never made that much of a fool out of herself. But on a sad note, she has no idea how innocent she is, and how vulnerable that makes her with dead men who are not like men today.” says Lem.

“Why were you so resistant to your family Lem when they tried to help you if if you really were straight and they knew that and they kept trying to talk you out of it why were you so resistant them?” asks a psychic.

“I was both spoiled and naïve, even if I was sweet tempered and loving. I knew I had my family and I knew they love me unconditionally, and I took that for granted. I took that extremely for granted. And on the other hand, I had issues with them that were real. And I took those as indications of complete guilt on their part that I could just disregard lots of what they believed because it just was old-fashioned and nonsensical. And you know I believed in progress I was taught to believe in America. We are patriots in my family. And so I thought, ‘The Kennedys are really cool!’ I thought they were really intelligent, energetic, passionate people. Who just needed their fair chance in America. I thought here there are these wealthy people and they live this glamorous life to some degree and they really just need a helping hand into the upper class. They really just need someone to guide them and help them understand how to fit in. I didn’t think that I was doing anything out of the ordinary that another person in my position wouldn’t do if they saw things in a progressive American way. I really thought I was giving them a helping hand. And I was happy to do it. I thought it made me patriotic and historic and a better man overall. My mission was to help Jack and his family prove to the world that an Irish immigrant family can make it big and outshine any other social class that’s ever existed. I wanted to make them something special in the eyes of the world for the sake of every Irish immigrant family that ever existed. And I don’t think they’d ever want to admit that so it’s much more convenient to just make me Jack’s crazy gay lover from a poor family. But it wasn’t that clear that I was that way. And to be honest, I don’t know that they would’ve even thought it was real at the time. If they did, I mean I wasn’t and it wasn’t discernible to them so they didn’t even know what they were looking at except for read Fais I think he may be new that I was not 100% gay at the very least. But part of that was because he wasn’t 100% straight or gay himself. And he understood what that was like and so I think he assumed when he knew me as a friend so to speak that I was probably just like him. And possibly also just like Jack, I think Red’s idea was that he was describing me and Jack and him all at the same time by calling me neutral. The problem, of course, was that I wasn’t principal fag. I was just straight, so I wasn’t really neutral. That was more just Red and Jack. But thank goodness Red said something so there’s some historical corroboration for what I’m saying to Lacey on this blog and in general am saying to her. Of course, people have determinedly misunderstood Red’s quotation to mean that I was gay, which is absurd but no, I was straight and that’s not an easy thing for Lacey to write. It actually has required a lot of faith in God, believe it or not for her to write that.”

“And you guys got a totally backward. Edit amazes me that the Illuminati has been dumb enough to enable you people.“ says a Gen. Z woman.

“So Lem you just thought your family was backward or old-fashioned and that you were the new improved version of them so to speak like you were an improvement. Or that you were an individual who was going to be a forward thinking progressive. And because you were confused and you genuinely were trying to live a gay life in your intellectual cocoon to some degree of upper class America in the 1930’s. You didn’t realize that jack shouldn’t just be a project. A sort of gay school project but like your entire life.” says a witch.

Lem’s dad laughs.

“I felt very self-righteous in my cause and he was my reason for living, even though I didn’t love him really in any way, sadly enough. And if I’ve been speaking to Lacey, I’ll finish this conversation by saying that no, I really was angry before I died at the thought of her being with someone else. And I don’t know if I’ll get her to believe that one for a while at least for a while.” says Lem.

More later.

“You didn’t love him at all you said you loved him your whole life you didn’t love him at all?!??” says a Boomer, aghast.

“No I wish I could say that I did. But truthfully, speaking, I didn’t. I failed at being a truly loving friend to him. I enabled him to be a horrible version of himself. That’s not loving. I, I let him ruin his life. And I had reasons for that at the time that made sense to me, but now they don’t because I know better and I should have them too. But I think you know you only know-we know-we don’t see everything when we’re alive unless if God helps us. And I I had all these ways of seeing things that were very complex, and based on a misunderstanding of my sexuality, and when I figured out that I was straight and may have pieced together the fact that Lacey existed, then I just wanted to die.” says Lem.

“So he was your reason for existence to a point or what?!” asks a Boomer.

“Umm…he was my reason for existence by choice. And coercion, but to a large degree by choice. I really thought I was doing the honorable thing.” says Lem.

“But Lem that’s not a thing. No generation has ever done that.” says a Boomer.

“You have no idea what you’re talking about or you’re trying to test me or trip me up and it’s obnoxious because I’m trying to end this conversation and you’re wasting my time.” says Lem.

“I just mean no generation has ever been that childish about it, where they commit to someone for romantic reasons as a teenager, and then stay married their whole life.” says the Boomer thinking she’s being clever.

“No, that’s not true that’s absolutely untrue! I think the opposite has been true throughout most of history. That was my ideal. That’s Lacey‘s ideal and if we met at other it would’ve worked out great but that’s not what happened but I was trying to make that happen with Jack.” says Lem. “I thought I was gay and he was going to be my lifetime partner I was going to commit to him and make being gay as feasible a lifestyle as possible.”

“But it didn’t bother you that he married Jackie?” asks someone.

“Oh no, I wasn’t hurt by that. Jackie and I actually didn’t get along very well at times, and I felt very awkward and I questioned my role and the appropriateness of everything but I understood why he was getting married and I respected what he was trying to do and it was necessary for office, and I thought she understood and no in many ways she relieved me of some duties, at least. Women took the heat off me and I liked that. Sounds psychotic but that’s what she’s hearing and that might be what I’m saying.” says Lem.

“The liberal elite are psychotically attached the idea that Lem was gay. And demons could easily be lying to psychics because the psychics don’t want to admit that. And Mr. and Mrs. Blue have everyone’s empathy because they are on the same team and they really can’t think outside that box even if they’re in the Illuminati. So right now, we’re counseling Mr. and Mrs. Blue in their marriage, while Lem is explaining US history to us. But we’re just oblivious to it, if this is actually Lem.” says Wobbly objectively. “Mrs. Blue thinks that her husband was attracted to Lacey, but was mostly just interested in her for reasons of jealousy. But she doesn’t like that theory because she thinks that it lets Lacey off the hook for having interest in a married man and it means that her husband really wasn’t interested in Lacey and that lets Lacey off the hook in other ways because she really wants to hate Lacey and think she’s evil.”

“OK so she still obsessed with that seven years later even though they have an open marriage? And she probably loves to focus on that because it makes her feel better about that open marriage. Or it just it’s distracting to her or what but why is she obsessed with that?” asks a woman.

“And that’s because she feels threatened by that idea that he could just meet someone anywhere, but she wouldn’t know.” says his former mistress. “Because she lives in a world where you don’t meet people other than in very specific ways and that’s the world she chooses to live in. She doesn’t realize that there are people seeing him by the millions daily and that she can’t control that because she’s insane and that way. In her mind she can still control it because in her mind he has this limited circle of people he knows and so that’s her safety net for her and that’s not reality but that’s the one that she chooses to live in.”

“So she really doesn’t get it that you were a real threat and that I was an imaginary one essentially, but he just chose to sort of use as his punching bag because I took it so seriously not him.” says Lacey. “He was looking for some nerdy hook-up and I was looking for love, and I didn’t realize that I was talking to the Illuminati.”

“So why does this woman take it so seriously if Lacey moved on seven years ago practically they think she’s obsessed with Lem and that he’s gay? It’s obvious that they’re obsessed with her for some petty reason from the objective point of view. And it’s obvious that she’s really not obsessed with them and that she just does this that they leave her alone basically. And honestly, it’s not clear that he was gay at all. It seems far more likely that he was bisexual or straight, and that they’re homophobic, and in capable of understanding how complicated people could be, especially under certain circumstances. I’m sure these people have a hard time with anything complicated, and so people who are transgender who really aren’t transgender and have ruined their bodies don’t exist to these people either.

And actually if I was Mrs. blue, I’d be worried that a real trans transgender woman could get a crush on my husband, especially a hot one with a strong chin line and big boobs. And I and I think he would end the marriage for that woman if he met her in the right social circles that I’m sure you’re in. And then you’d be out of a paycheck, you a little gold-digger. Because I’m noticing that in Lacey‘s case very specifically, though, just in her case, when people accuse her of being one they usually are themselves. I think her former step mother-in-law was definitely a gold-digger. I think that most women in Mr. Blue’s life are gold-diggers. I don’t know that his wife was to begin with, but I think she could’ve been if she knew what kind of a life he was capable of giving him because that woman is not stupid whoever she is. And if she has industry ins in Hollywood, or wherever he is, I am sure that she knew that when she met him. And she saw him as her little investment that would pay off long-term and then she could be whatever she wanted to be, and he would just go along with it out of thankfulness. It’s funny though because I don’t think Lacey would ever make that argument. I think it would floor her to hear that because she really isn’t a gold-digger so she doesn’t think like one at all. But you know I can think like one if I want to. And I’m warning you I really think there could be a woman out there who could steal him from you and it isn’t Lacey and you’re gonna feel very silly someday if she ever emerges and he remarries her and leaves you…because Lacey is not going to care, and then you get to take it out on Lacey again anyway? Because she really is just your punching bag psychologically…and don’t try to make that about social class to feel superior because the truth is she’s probably superior to you. I have a feeling there are multiple people in her family who have a higher net worth than the two of you combined, even with your industry ins.” says a perfume hater.

More later.

Later Hotline Bling (Billie Version) from Instagram plays.

Hotline (edit) by Billie Eilish plays.

“So I don’t understand why Lem being with Jack was such a big deal. Explain!” says a reader.

“Because…Lacey has no way to be a man.” says Lem. “She can’t be a man without destroying herself completely.”

COPYCAT by Billie Eilish plays.

“Jack can imitate her. But she can’t imitate him.” says Lem. “And she needs me infinitely more than he ever even sneezed at.”

“Who told Jack so?” asks JP.

“Who do you think, dad?!?” says Eunice.

“Joe.” says Kick.

A reader opens her mouth. “So…Joe warned Jack. Not to mess with it. Let it go?”

“Yeah. And Jack…is…struggling.” says Eunice.

“So…Lem…you…umm…love Jack more. But…somehow Lacey got the idea that you…were betraying her because she was too feminine?” asks a gay man. “And loved you too much?” he asks crying. “Damn.” He closes his eyes. Cries.

“So…Joe understands and understood her…wild, determined character. Hmm. …And we ruined that.” says the psychic.

Lovely by Billie Eilish.

“You and Joe are parents.” says a female psychic. “He gets Millennial coparenting.” She laughs. Rubs her forehead.

Therefore I Am by Billie Eilish plays.

“They keep a friendship now, easily.” says Pat proudly.

And…in their case…it’s real. Platonic. Dead. But loving.

Joe sighs. Straightens his bowtie. Looks at Jack across the table. Challenges him.

“I made it work!” says Joe. He glares at Jack. “She still loves me. I still love her. But…maybe we don’t belong together. Can you do that?”

He thinks. Changes by Hayd plays ironically and not.

“I pick great women. Or one. Really great one. And…I let go. It was Hell. But I did it.” says Joe. “Can you say that?”

“Are we still competing?” asks Jack, crying.

“As long as you want!” says Joe signaling.

Lacey bows to God. The God of the Bible.

“You have proof she wasn’t ugly! Did you see her ass?!? Lem let her do that! Isn’t that great of him?” says Joe. “I never did.”

Thank You by Dido plays.

“Joe…you didn’t want war…because you knew you’d die. Why?” asks a pacifist.

“I stayed alive. Under rare conditions.” says Joe. “I fought extremely well, actually. But I…got killed loving Patricia.”

Desert Rose by Sting plays.

Joe is entranced by Pat. In the 1940’s. She was seductive. And Lacey understood and understands. Too easily. And that was the problem.

Lacey loves on. Few tears.

“So she’s angry at me because I was wrong.” says her ex boyfriends.

“Unfortunately…yes. You shouldn’t have been wrong. That was crass.” says Joe.

Lem laughs. And laughs.

“I warned you to pick Eleanor Roosevelt over Jackie Kennedy.” says Lacey’s seventh grade honors English teacher.

And she did. She warned Lacey.

“No, they’re two very different women. Jackie was beautiful, but she was a far more shallow woman than Eleanor Roosevelt.” said Lacey’s seventh grade honors English teacher to Lacey. She was scared by something Lacey had said, comparing and complimenting them both.

“She didn’t realize there was a war between them. How could she have realized that?! See, she thought they were just both very cool women in American history and that’s all.“ says Michael sitting in her room at age 13.

Lacey’s old English teacher laughs. She looks at Lem and Michael. Joe. Elliott. Louis. Harold. Scott.

Glory Box by Portishead plays.

“I don’t think Elliott is right. Michael…is…never going away unless he’s fully outdone.” she says then she smiles. “Joe…is…her perfect soulmate. But…God is the best judge. The bestest.” She squints. “Louis is-“. She cuts off to cry. She looks down. Looks nervous. Cries.

Weird Fishes by Radiohead plays.

“I’m…so wrong. About so many things.” she says. “And it’s wonderful.” She sighs. “You were a pacifist in disguise?” she asks Louis.

He smiles.

“You would have married her.” she says. “I’m sorry. I have to say it! …And Lem, you warned me. You warned me. …Harold I’d have made you do projects with Lacey. Often.” she says, smiling. “Partially out of curiosity. Just to see what you two could come up with. Scott…if you and Lacey were in the same room I’d have been scared by what you’d two would do with the conversation.” she says.

“Why would my relationship with Lacey have scared you if you could tell that I was attracted to her?” says Lem.

“Well frankly, because you are 13 year olds. And if you both were in my class the year that she was there…I would’ve been worried about teen pregnancy. She doesn’t believe that but that’s what I would’ve been worried about.” she says.

“How could you have no one what we were capable of?” asks Lem.

Louis laughs.

“You have a certain power over her but I don’t think you have that over anyone else but yourself and I could probably have sensed that. You seem dangerous in different ways to different people, probably. Joe wasn’t wrong to be cautious of you. He just didn’t have the right reasons. But I would’ve known that people fell in love and got married young sometimes. And I would’ve known that you two were capable of that. You’re both very serious people.” she says.

More later.

“You’re actually dead!?!” Lacey says to Mrs. Koppelman in shock.

Lacey looked her up. Feeling that she should. And was shocked to find her dead. She died last summer.

Lacey cries slightly.

“You taught me English. Actual English.” says Lacey.

Lacey is shocked. She imagined her in her classroom so clearly.

“Are you all actually there?!” asks Lacey.

“Yes. Mostly. You’ll see.” she says.

Lacey stands there.

“I’m worried.” says Mrs. Koppelman.

“Wow it’s hard to believe you’re dead.” says Lacey. “I weirdly thought you were. But I didn’t believe it. And you actually were close to death and are dead.” Lacey thinks. “You don’t seem dead. You seem…transformed into some sort of Purgatorial state.”

“Where are you?” asks a witch of Lacey.

Michael laughs. As does an Asmat.

“I am in 2023 and 1998 both.” says Lacey.

“You’re also at the Edina public library.” says Mrs. Koppelman.

“I loved the place.” says Lacey

Mrs. Koppelman laughs.

“You are more in awe of me than Louis!!” she says. “And you’re so chill about the celebrities.”

Lacey looks awkward. “I’ve been talking to Joe since I was young.” she admits. “If you’re real. I think we might have been in love. He’s just…Joe to me.”

“And in a way…that’s…exactly why you’re writing this. He was so human. Not just a celebrity. …And he was so handsome too. But…he tried to love you and did. And it affected you. And…he was never US President. And eventually the whole century ended.” says Mrs. Koppelman.

“I don’t want to leave the 20th Century.” says Lacey.

“The air was better.” says Mrs. Koppelman.

“I don’t like the world without you all.” says Lacey.

“At least there’s still England.” says a man.

“It would feel like Hell or Mars without it.” says Lem.

“So…you and Lem were supposed to be together.” says a man.

“Or me.” says Michael.

“Why is Judith worried?!” asks a man.

“Because Lem was straight.” says Mrs. Koppelman.

Later.

“No…I’m not worried about Joe. He’s…handsome. And very content. …His wife was…and is…Pat at the start of this post and now. …I’m more worried that Lem…won’t be heard. Lacey needs…peace.” says Mrs. Koppelman. “And her seeing me…is far too weird. She had a sense I was dead. And I am. And it’s weird!” says Mrs. Koppelman. “And Michael is…extremely dangerous and barely dead. He’s dead…but…I don’t think he’s dead the way I am.” She smirks. “God may have had to raise him from the grave a bit.”

More later.