Over twenty years ago Lacey’s cousin Linn worked at Maurices. In a mall. It was different. Once when Lacey’s was about 12 so…28 years ago…Linn brought her roll on glitter. It smelled like cherries.
The sad truth is…that was a good memory. But all the joy in that moment rested in growing-up and being…far more loved. There was this happiness that was supposed to happen… As much as she adores her family and her home she didn’t get what she wanted.
“It was…so simple.” says Elliott. “I can look right back at it.”
“Wasn’t it delightfully simple?” says Lacey.
“All I had to do was…be quietly happy.” says Lacey.
“You almost had it a few times.” says Elliott.
“And then it just slipped away into…death.” says Lacey.
“I always thought you wanted to be superior, like me when I was a teenager.” says Lawrie Merz.
“No!” says Lacey.
“Sweetheart…her family is the aristocracy. The expectations on her were higher. …That’s all.” says a dead woman from West Virginia.
“Given my family’s background…what was she aiming for by comparison?” asks Lawrie Merz.
“Teaching. Elementary school.” says the woman from West Virginia.
“What did she even want to do?!” asks Lawrie.
“Be a US President.” says the woman from West Virginia. She laughs. “Her family’s oil. Think. But…she’d of settled for…a lot of other things.”
“So they gave her false hope?” asks a history professor at Messiah University.
“They didn’t love her.” says Michael. “They gave her freedom and privilege but they didn’t…love her. It’s so simple.”
“I should never have met her.” says Maggie Lake.
“She’s not homosexual Maggie. …No. You fascinated her. But not in a way you maybe understand yet. It wasn’t sexual. You were just fascinating.” says Michael.
A group of adult queer activists in the Illuminati in the bourgeois…cry.
“How could someone be fascinating without it being sexual?” asks Maggie.
Adversity by Beach Fossils plays.
“You’re a peasant, Maggie if you don’t understand.” says Michael. “It’s gross that women don’t understand.”
“What is it?” asks her former maid.
“It’s just objective fascination.” says Michael.
“Politics was an idiotic route!” shouts John Fea.
“Yes! But the problem is…she’s brilliant at it. It’s like breathing to her. …Genuinely. Her father is the same way. …So…part of her fascination with politics was in trying to find her father.” says Michael.
“Michael you would never say that. Her father was trash. She’s trash!” yells Dr. John Fea.
“You’re weird.” Margaret Thatcher says to Dr. John Fea.
“Why is she trash?” asks Dr. Thorsten Moritz.
“Because she’s an ugly, slutty, smelly bitch!” says Dr. John Fea.
“Why do you hate her so much?” asks another history professor.
“It’s fun.” says Dr. John Fea laughing. “It’s fun to hate people like her.”
“Who are ‘people like her?’” asks the other history professor.
“Drug addict losers. Gay men. Heroin addicts. The Italian mafia!!!” he yells.
“Did you intuit those people?!?” asks yet another Messiah University professor.
“Hey!! Chris Hayes…you wanna work here?” asks Dr. Kim Phipps. “We’d offer you a tenured position. Where do you want to work?”
“Theater!” says Chris Hayes, jovially.
“Yeah. I worry I did.” says Dr. John Fea. “It was fun to be heartless to her.”
“Why are we being heartless?” asks Lawrie.
“Because she’s smarter than us?” says Dr. Fea.
“That’s heartless. Why?” asks Lawrie. “I think we didn’t care. And we genuinely hated her, for sad reasons.”
“How sociopathic were we?” asks Dr. Fea.
“Very!” says Lawrie Merz, thoughtfully. “Really though…we hated her background more than anything. She has and had no idea how wealthy she is.”
“Lawrie! Everyone could buy a house in Manhattan in the Upper East Side for $2 million.” says John from the library. “It’s just cheap!”
Sarah Jessica Parker cries. “No! It is cheap. You’re wrong!” Her paranoid-bourgeois section of the Illuminati is obsessed with looking rich. Being friends with someone who owns a paltry $2 million house in the Upper East Side is genuinely scary.
“Oh wow.” says Dr. Wilson of the history department. “The Kennedy Family ruined social class in America.”
Al Sharpton with his rainbow coalition smirks. “What was the Rainbow Coalition? Why can’t the rainbows be for rich white peoples who care? Or the color purple belong to black peoples? Or sad women?”
“I called you creepy.” Bobby says to Al Sharpton.
Lem has been violently silenced. By the Kennedy family and their supporters in Purgatory. And the living bourgeois.
“Lem was straight.” says Lem. “But violently pushy narcissistic gay male psychics in the Illuminati DEMAND the Satanic right to destroy her mind.”
“The film Maurice wasn’t about you and Lem. It was about you and Rip.” says James Ivory. “If it was about you at all.”
“Eww!” says JFK.
“Why is that icky?” asks Ishmail Merchant.
“I eat her period blood!” says Chris Hayes. “I think I’m making love to her. But…spiritually I freeze her blood and then eat it like a popsicle.”
“What?!?” asks his wife.
“It’s weird. But that’s the sense I get in my spirit.” says Chris Hayes calmly.
“Okay. …How?!?” asks Kate Shaw-Hayes in a panic.
“I have tried to analyze her.” says Chris Hayes.
“Rip was ugly compared to Lem. I don’t date short guys.” says JFK walking with a slight booty shake.
“I’m living in a beautiful fantasy.” says Chris Hayes. He licks a popsicle.
“That’s my period blood. Not Lacey’s.” says JFK.
“Why did you treat her like a man?!” asks a Muslim man.
“I didn’t!” says Dr. John Fea.
“No. You did. …Psychotically.” says Islam.
“She wasn’t sexy.” says Dr. Fea. “But she was good.”
“Yeah. All those sexy students.” says Islam rolling it’s eyes. “You know…maybe..she’s very sexy. And pure.”
“And I knew. But…then she can’t be a lazy slut!” yells Dr. John Fea.
“You just said she was good.” says Islam.
“Yeah. But she’s a slut!” yells Dr. Fea.
“How?” asks Islam.
“All good looking women are sluts.” says Dr. John Fea. “Gee whiz! …It’s just science.”
“Are you a hick?” asks Islam.
“No! I grew-up in the city.” says John Fea.
“We enjoy turning her into a weakling who legitimately needs help. And then denying the help to feel superior.” says Dr. John Harles. “Why didn’t you just let her be an art historian, Robin? That wasn’t actually helpful.”
“Because that’s too girly for my tastes.” says Dr. Robin Lauermann.
“Go ahead! Go to Hell!” shout all current adult living black people at Lacey.
Feels Like We Only Go Backwards by Tame Impala plays.
“Who’s on her side other than the old money ultra elite?!” asks John Fea of Chris Hayes. “I’m not a completely idiotic person. It’s a scary question.”
“Racy stuff!” says a dead British aristocrat to Lacey about Dr. Lauermann’s revelation.
“Chris when was the last time you actually talked to Lacey and not Lacey‘s like tormentors? I have a feeling you just talk to the demons like strategically Satanically assigned to attack her. I think you’re just sensing the thoughts that they give her and what they are thinking. Chris, you’re truly in a relationship with demons when you’re talking to her.
I think that started all the way back in 2016 almost at the beginning of when you and Diego started talking to her at the very beginning, I think that you and Diego started talking to her, and that was somewhat innocent in a way but then after that it went totally psychotic…and you started talking to her demons and Diego started trying to figure out what was going on.” says the CIA working with Bobby Kennedy Jr..
“Robin you should have let her be an art history major. I don’t think I would’ve ever had a conversation with her…but then she completely makes sense to me 100%. I would’ve probably if I’d been friends with her told her to do better in French or I would’ve just said skip French and do something else. I like Spanish? …I don’t know…but the point is she’s she’s such an art history major. Robin…she’s such an art department kid. I mean it they’re so wild! But it’s in a very eccentric way and they kind of keep to themselves. They’re the kind of kids who go to France and drink absinthe or do heroin in like a gutter and then come back and they look totally fine. She would never probably do the heroin, but I guarantee you if she had been in the art department she would’ve been probably drinking. They all drink or they did when she was there. I mean some of them are wild. Those kids are wild. She was very clean cut and very preppy and good. And I highly doubt that she’s an evil-hearted person but I don’t think the political science kids could handle her intelligence because they’re maybe not as intelligent.” says Kris Hanson.
“We insulted her.” says the art department. “We couldn’t figure out why she wanted sex.”
“What???” asks Kris Hanson.
“The wrong people were sexually aggressive. And the right guys were weird.” says the Messiah University art department. “That being said…she’d of done so much better in our department.”
Kris Hanson. “Why?” she asks coyly.
“No! She’s not a flirt!” they say. “She’s just…so not Charlotte from Sex And The City.” they say. “And it confused us.”
“Because she’s too elite.” says Kris.
“No! That’s not real. Is it?!” asks Chris Hayes.
“What’s not real?” asks George Soros of Chris Hayes.
“The elite thing?” says Chris Hayes eating blue frosting. It covers his face around his mouth.
“What are you doing?!” asks George Soros.
“Huh?” says Chris Hayes.
“He loves eating colored frosting.” explains Diego Blue.
“He’s not cheating on Kate!” says Rachel Maddow.
“Then why, Diego, is he covered in blue frosting?” asks George Soros.
“I cannot comment at this time.” says Diego cryptically.
“What?!! It’s just blue frosting!” yells Chris Hayes.
The staff at Messiah University is awestruck.
Je te Lasserai des mots by Patrick Watson plays.
“They are wild, Robin.” says Dr. John Harles.
“They’re wild. But people like Lacey steady things.” says Jill Schiebel.
“I never got that close to them.” says Dr. John Harles.
“Sex with men!” shouts the Messiah University art department at everyone concerned on behalf of Lacey.
“There were no husbands at Messiah.” says Dr. John Fea.
“No! But Messiah can’t admit that for business reasons.” says the art department.
“There were gay guys! But…she likes straight or bisexual or pansexual men. Being an emotionally stable straight woman.” says a Messiah University graduate.
“It’s worse than you want it to be? Because your primarily American letter soup cult can’t handle that I was straight. Or even bisexual.” says Lem.
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More later.
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