Missing

This morning as Lacey woke up in Lem’s arms, the illuminati realized that maybe it was time for a little discussion. It seems as though Lem really is her other half.

Maybe at one point it was Joe and now it seems if she isn’t with Lem then she’ll be with Louis or Michael. Possibly Harold Loeb.

The thing is she’s probably either Lem’s actual third or fourth cousin maybe fifth cousin literally. They are probably distantly related. Or she’s Tommy’s actual daughter biologically in this life that we’re all living. Either way she probably ends up with Lem. And either way, Joe may have found some way or wanted to find some way to get at her. And he almost did…

If she’s Lem’s distant cousin, Joe likely saw Lem possibly bragging as teenager (because God might have allowed Lem to see her as his teenage self) when she was a teenager, “She’s my distant cousin and she’s my so-called twin flame, isn’t she beautiful?!??” And Joe Jr. thought, “Umm…no that’s now my twin flame!” because he just couldn’t stand it. For lots of reasons.

This was long before Pat Wilson died. Keep that in mind.

The thing is Joe doesn’t know Lem as well as God and neither did his brother. Actually either of his brothers any of his family.

Or if Lacey is really Tommy’s daughter then she is his daughter regardless but based on that Joe may have felt he had some right to say, “She was probably going to be my wife first. Give me a chance!”

Either way, it’s sort of ordinary as the Kennedys are just people. JFK was just a man. And they actually maybe really are just a part of Lacey‘s group like an assigned group at a school visit to the zoo.

…Lacey was supposed to inherit another $300,000.00 or $400,000.00 from her father. It’s unclear if she will now. He accidentally proposed to his fiancé and she treated his joke, his literal joke, as a serious proposal and decided to make a big thing about it and so now a closeted man who doesn’t really love his fiancé is getting married because he doesn’t want to make the woman angry or make her sad or upset her family. And if she doesn’t die around the same time that he does, then Lacey will probably be out $300,000.00 or $400,000. And she’s prepared for that although it’s obviously disappointing.

…If the Illuminati really decided to pull that prank, so to speak, because it’s in their wheelhouse to be able to do something like that if they really try, then essentially for petty reasons of social class because they have billions but they genuinely were so threatened by Lacey‘s meager $600,000 or $700,000 inheritance given her higher social class…they decided to steal money from her. They stole her inheritance…because no amount of money can buy old money status and they couldn’t psychologically handle hearing “No.”

And you might be thinking, “$600,000 $700,000 that’s a lot!” …But it’s really not. It’s a little under $1 million and it’s nice but it’s still only $600,000 to $700,000. …There is more that she could be inheriting that may or may not be worth anything when she inherits it. It depends on what happens. They may still be working on trying to get Lacey out of that inheritance as well for petty yet sociopathic reasons.

No, actually, she will still probably inherit a very small amount of money relatively speaking from her mom. And a piece of sterling silver antique jewelry made by the family silversmith in Norway. Her great grandmother‘s first cousin. But a piece of heirloom historically significant Norwegian sterling silver jewelry even if it’s antique and somewhat historic isn’t like $1 million from someone as you age when you have children. That $400,000 was probably going to be Lacey‘s lake house or a part of her kid’s future means of survival in a failing world system, regardless…and that’s frustrating to her. It was rightfully her money. …Don’t try to argue that one unless you’re prepared for a truly brutal argument or you’re God Himself.

“OK we’re worth maybe a couple of million and I’m not gonna tell you how much exactly because I don’t want you to know. I’m gonna let you do the work to try to figure it out. But to someone like us $500,000 makes a difference.” says Lacey’s ex father-in-law.

“There are a lot of old money families where $500,000 probably is actually-it’s not like it’s a huge deal but it’s still $500,000 and it would be nice to have that money.” says a living old money man.

“So grand total you guys have probably stolen about $1 million from Lacey at this point you’ve stolen $1 million from her. And to some people that’s their entire year’s salary. Because a lot of you in the Illuminati are salaried aren’t you? And you’re dependent on your little million a year?! …And to the rest of you if you lost $1 million you might be a little sad about it even if you’re worth $500 million. Because 500 is only 500 it’s not $500 trillion. …You guys are like pathetic. You guys are like the peasant bullshit artist kids who steal things from rich kid’s backpacks in certain schools. Not kids like Lem. Not nice kids on scholarships to Choate, regardless of their background. No…the kids who are losers! …You’re still absolute street trash and you have no sense of manners or self control and this is why the conservatives hate people like you.” says a reader.

“The sad truth is I bet even with her million Dollars missing she still is upper class old money isn’t she? Yeah she still probably loves her distant cousin or if she’s Tommy Banks’s daughter daughter she’s still probably going to inherit that piece of silver because he didn’t raise her…and she brought that up to piss you guys off because she knows you’re at war. And she’s winning! …You having to steal $1 million from her makes you all seem so so pathetic. …I bet you’ll think you’re super cute, clever and cute because if he accidentally proposed to her who inspired him to do that, probably some demon or some person who was like doggedly talking to him in his subconscious using telepathy. And like you always have a super ability because you had something you know given to you that really is just scientific. …It doesn’t mean that there’s no supernatural. It just means that the supernatural is probably not as unnatural as you guys have made it out to be in the last hundred years. But even with $1 million stolen from her, I have a feeling that she still is probably going to be living a life that you guys don’t know how to live because it’s not what you were raised to do. Without blowing them up into dust…then just get used to the fact that she exists because I don’t think she’s going anywhere for another 20 to 30 years maybe 15. I don’t think you guys understand that this is why you don’t do what you did.” says a gang leader.

“You know I think a lot of you if you went to Harvard or Brown or Yale and then became celebrities. I think you think that you’re untouchable! …And then you find out that there’s social class? That it’s like a scientific thing and it’s just sort of science…and you can’t handle it. And I think it’s narcissist what you guys can’t handle, especially Mr. Blue. See people like Lacey don’t give two shits about your fame because they don’t have to. You’re not that impressive to her. …Your net worth is probably about the same as the estate that her cousin owns and that’s not impressive Mr. Blue. And that’s just one person in her old money family where there’s a knighted author. …Why did you decide to use your Illuminati privileges that were given to you probably in good faith for such a destructive, petty and stupid cause?!” says another reader.

“I am more fascinated by the fact if she’s Lem’s twin flame and then he almost lost her to Joe or Elliot Roosevelt or Michael Rockefeller? Because I have a feeling Michael and her are probably soulmates and she’s probably Louis’s soulmate as well. So from my perspective that’s fascinating. Does that happen? That evil can totally split up a twin flame and then you end up with your soulmates? I don’t know but I’d like to research that and we can’t apparently we just can’t.” says an actress.

“And I am fascinated by why a woman like Casi would think that her $2000 ensemble of rings from Kay Jewelers would be intimidating at all to a woman like Lacey. …Lacey is a hippie Casi. Lacey is very…we’ll say theologically distant from your worldview to begin with. If Lem had made love to her while he was alive and given her a nail that he fashioned into a ring, I think that would be her ring, and nothing would mean more to her than anything you could possibly buy in the entire universe. …That’s what hasn’t been said! And especially if she’s illegitimate, she thinks like an actual literal hippie! See that’s her value system!” a psychologist pauses. “So you you can’t compete with that ring from love you get in an end and that’s why God is God and He wouldn’t let someone’s twin flame ruin their existence, and if it came close to that something tells me that Michael was actually or would actually or Louis or Harold would actually be better for her somehow anyway or He’d make it work out. But that’s the problem Casi. That is who you’re talking to when you talk to Lacey, even in your head. She is someone who’s very deep and very much not a materialist. She’s a huge, extreme romantic. …The thing is that when you start talking about monetary things Casi, you’re already pissing her off. And she’s either gonna feel sorry for you or she’s going to think that you’re evil or a buffoon or something. And then she’s like, ‘OK! You want to have a real discussion about war?! You wanna have a real discussion about mother nature in a fallen world?! We will have one!!’ …And that’s the conversation she was trying to have. It was this very deep, intellectual, non-materialist, Christian Catholic possibly Episcopalian old money, born-again Christian hippie conversation. And that’s the problem! See you’re talking to someone who does things very differently than you. …No I know that’s what this woman is because I’ve read her blog. I’ve been fascinated by it and that’s I think that’s that’s her worldview that she doesn’t ever talk about. Why? I actually don’t know why and that’s an interesting question. …But the problem is, she’s not a communist. She’s too rational for that…but I think at heart she wishes that the world was very different than it is. …That being said, I don’t think she would’ve ever let you know Bobby take heroin. She might understand while Lem did. If Lem did it in some sort of self-defense, or if he legitimately was of a mind that these kids were dangerous and I I don’t know what he was thinking that’s between them. But I think she would’ve thought that was wrong. …I don’t think there’s certain drugs she probably would’ve even taken because coming from her background of a father who was a liquor salesman, essentially I don’t think she would’ve thought that certain things were safe to take. She may have even known Harold Loeb and I think she would’ve thought that Zelda lost her mind for a reason. …It’s interesting to me that she has a profound fear of drugs, and that she had a dream that she overdosed but that she was dying already anyway. She’s talked about that! There are so many things that might be interesting to talk about. …But we’re not talking about them and that actress is right and it is annoying. …Handbags worth that much and I’m sure that it’s all insured and what would piss her off if you stole them Casi, if you try to hunt her house down, would be the way that you’re stealing memories from her. There’s no way to steal that from someone by the way because we are eternal beings and God is in control and you can’t take someone’s soul from them Casi you’re insane if that’s what you’re trying to do. There’s no way to steal that from someone with God’s approval! …I have a feeling that people have stolen things from her even in the afterlife like her pearl earrings. I don’t think she’s making that up. I have a feeling people of been stealing pearl earrings from her possibly partially to tease her for a while now. And when she threw tens of thousands of Dollars worth of jewelry into the ocean and down the drain and into the gutter who gave her that idea?! Zelda did do that she literally did the same thing. What’s interesting is they were Art Deco pieces from the same period as the jewelry that Zelda was disposing the exact same way in the ocean. And it’s interesting that she can you know spend what $5000 on braces and then you threw her down the stairs and so she had to have them taken off too soon so that add that to the million probably. …It’s been interesting to watch to those people who read her blog. It’s been interesting to watch where you guys have taken things and if there is an Illuminati and it’s you you guys are funny! It’s a comedy to us now; this blog is hilarious. It’s comforting because it’s some proof that you know if our loved ones love God that they are probably fine and we need to just worship God ourselves and hopefully end up where they are and kiss our sorrows goodbye someday and at the right time in the right place, when God beckons us to come be with him. …But you know getting back to this Casi it’s just math it’s math OK she’s doing math your $2000 bank. It doesn’t make sense mathematically to compare that to a $50,000 ring. With Lacey you’ve always been having a math debate Casi you’ve been trying to make $50,000 $2000 and that’s not possible and the people that are trying to back you up are probably destroying the fabric of the universe in the process trying to get Satan to do it. …And then what does that do our banking system? What does that do to our water supply? Why doesn’t that occur to you as you’re reading her blog because I have a feeling they’re reading you spiritually pretty well and I have a feeling you still if you’re reading this blog don’t understand you’re arguing math with Lacey and that’s all.” says a reader and psychologist reading Lacey’s blog.

“So it’s just about math and not about taste or social class? Or is social class to some degree about math? In which case OK fine I don’t think the Perfume community maybe is aware that you were really just having a mathematical discussion.” says Casi.

“Oh, I don’t think that’s likely. I think that you guys actually really don’t understand more than that, but I could be wrong.” says Tommy Banks to the perfume community.

“Our house was a really nice house in New York and my family was old money. You’ve never been to Summit Avenue. You have no idea how imposing the Hill mansion is or what it was like at least.” F. Scott Fitzgerald says to the perfume community.

“OK but like to me though a $600,000 townhouse in 2018 didn’t seem impressive.” says Nancy.

“That’s why I was impressed by Louis Hill’s $50 million house, actually it’s probably worth about $100 million today, it’d probably cost I don’t even know how much it would cost to run that house and live there. …It’s an enormous house and the upkeep is astounding.“ says Scott. “That hundred million Dollar house and the other $20 million houses on that street, because that’s really what they should be worth! Summit Avenue is vastly undervalued because people under value Midwest property in general and they have for decades. That house was on my block Nancy! …That’s the house that he had that was on my block! That was my neighborhood. …I was his neighbor in my paltry $600,000 townhouse. …With that million Dollars that they stole from her she was considering buying a house of her own on that same street or in that area. …It’s possible I started to feel sorry for you more than I should have around that time when you made that mistake in 2018.” says Scott. “Your $200,000 house and neighbors who had servants back in India were never going to be impressive to Lacey. It’s just math Nancy; it’s just cold hard math.” says Scott Fitzgerald.

“And to some degree anthropology and sociology is mathematical because it’s a science. It’s considered a science or social science and that’s how seriously she takes it and people like her take things like that“ says a reader.

“You know I think what we couldn’t stand though is the fact that you Lacey knew that we don’t have $40 million! You knew!” says a perfume hater. She smirks. “I’m not a conspiracy theorist, but I’m saying $40 million for a reason. Is Michael even dead?”

Lacey thinks.

“It probably would’ve been closer to $60 million in 2023 if I’d married her.” says Michael Rockefeller. “But she would’ve had my name too not just $60 million.” He thinks. “Truthfully, I would’ve been terrified on the other side. I would’ve been terrified, leaving her.”

“That doesn’t prove reincarnation. Ask those questions of me when you get to Heaven.” says God.

More later.

“I’m not sure I was totally clear on what was happening for people financially. I think I thought people were…better off than that.” says Lacey.

“Like how well off?!?” asks a Jan.

“Like…maybe worth a million or two on average.” says Lacey.

Casi laughs. Casi cannot stop laughing.

“You thought I was rich?” asks Nancy.

“Yes. You seemed…like you had a wealthy father. Like you came from generations of wealth.” says Lacey.

Nancy becomes very serious. “Really?”

“Yeah. I thought you were possibly Italian. …Maybe not old money. But…maybe?!?” says Lacey.

Nancy laughs.

“What made you think that?!” asks Nancy.

“Your tastes in music. Your car. Just your attitude.” says Lacey.

“You thought I was upper middle class!” says Casi.

“It’s all online. And that was how you all represented yourself at first.” says Lacey.

“How much do you think I’m worth now?!” asks a Jan.

“Maybe $500,000.00.” says Lacey. “Maybe a million. Not that much. Sorry.”

“So…you’re not necessarily evil.” Lem says to Lacey.

“Not necessarily.” says Lacey.

“No. I’m not old money. I just buy expensive cars.” says Nancy.

“And I grew-up somewhat poor.” says Casi.

“I didn’t necessarily think that that’s who was following me.” says Lacey.

They all think.

“I’ll search for my evil. So far I haven’t been able to really locate it.” says Lacey.

More later.

Stay by Rihanna plays.

Michael and Lem figured it out. Maybe mostly Michael…sadly.

“Round, and around and around we go.” says Michael to Lacey.

“No, just because you’re suffocating me and it’s not working-Even if I died it wouldn’t do anything. You people are such fucking idiots.” says Lacey in irritation with the Illuminati.

“Turns out the reason Lacey posted photos of pretty things that she was buying starting in 2014 or so… was because she was profoundly suicidal.” says Princess Diana.

Michael tries not to cry.

“What?!?!?” says Mr. Blue like a nerdy asshole.

“Being far too complex and confusing for most people to understand Lacey’s actual psychology is deemed imaginary. Just like, pretending to be a woman to pretend to be a gay man is somehow too complex for people to understand who would prefer to think that Lem was bisexual, pansexual or gay when in reality he was straight.” says Lem.

“What made you think posting things that were expensive-I don’t understand. You were suicidal?!?!?” says Nancy.

“Other than for her children, she’d be praying to be dead all day every day, literally.” says Lem.

“Right, because you’re dead Lem and so is Michael. The Illuminati is tracking that; we are on that fact we are proud to say.“ says an Illuminati spokesperson.

“So it’s the same psychology that led me to throw my jewelry out of a train window and led her to throw a $6000 ring into the Pacific Ocean.” says Zelda. “The idea is that material possessions don’t matter. It’s love that counts. And so it’s actually quite deep. We’re both extraordinarily beautiful at least Lacey is. And so pretty things come to us right because we tend to marry people who have money. And in a sense we are a pretty thing. And both Lacey and I came from families with some money and some old money. And most importantly, when we started doing things like throwing Art Deco jewelry out of windows, we did it because we were trying to make a statement about the meaning of love, because neither of us felt loved in those moments, and we felt as though money meant more to people than human life. Namely, our lives are human life that we possess given to us by God. …What is life? What is the soul? What is the spirit? That’s also part of our equation. She literally posted expensive things to Instagram as a sort of cry to God and protest against the disorderly nature of the American class system. …It was an incredibly deep protest against evil and disorder in evil. The idea was m, “Hmm…let me entertain this venue. Let me take a dip into this bourgeois bullshit just to see what it’s like to try to fit in and wear the hat and the shoes that everyone else is wearing.”

“So you weren’t taking us seriously? Do you think we’re just total fucking idiots?” says Monika.

“I think you are taking certain things too seriously yourselves. But I was taking you seriously as people.” says Lacey. “And I was certainly taking perfume and your artistic expressions seriously as well.”

“But the whole collecting process seems stupid to you or what?!” asks a David.

Lacey thinks. “Well I think on a spiritual level it is and isn’t stupid to collect things. But I think beyond that beyond, you know the value of the happiness that it brings and whatever goodness it creates in God’s universe to collect things. God of the Bible. Beyond that…yes it is stupid to collect things because material possessions don’t mean anything when you’re dead beyond what I’ve already delineated. I mean do you get to take something with you or not? I don’t know. The Egyptians thought that you did. They may not have been stupid for thinking that I don’t know. If there is a Purgatory, it’s possible that we do take some things with us that God allows us to take. But then that’s God allowing that so it’s possible that if you are, let’s say a King of England, He allows you to take that dominion with you to the grave, possibly to protect the English people. And then because of that it’s possible that when people are poor and they die that they become rich, it just depends. I doubt that it’s a simple equation because this is God’s math that we’re doing here now-that we’re trying to estimate. But beyond that spiritual equation that God has the patent on I don’t know I don’t know I suppose collecting is a little stupid maybe.” says Lacey.

“Were you collecting for suicidal reasons as well?” asks an Englishwoman.

“Yes, probably yes. It probably seemed like a silly thing to do.” says Lacey.

“But not in the way that like an art collector would collect things if they were being respectful, if that’s even possible.” says a David.

“Absolutely!” says Lacey.

“Lem I think we’re not gonna be taking your wife home for another 15 20 30 years probably I’m sorry yeah. I’m not sorry because I know you want your kids raised to love God so I’d be happy but speaking of someone who recently died and had to live with the thought of leaving my letting my wife live without me J know it’s not a pleasant thought. It’s a very unpleasant thought.“ says a dead male Minnesotan in his 90’s.

“You know I didn’t think I was prettier than you.” says a woman in the Netherlands to Lacey.

“And I just didn’t care. I did care for probably pretty deep reasons, but I didn’t care for some competitive reason. I really didn’t.” says Lacey.

“Yes you did. Yes you did.“ says Batgirl III.

“No, I really didn’t. I really didn’t. You care! It bothers you.“ says Lacey.

“I cared and so did Nancy. We cared about how much money everyone has we cared about how old money or upper middle-class we seemed. We cared about how pretty everyone was. We were obsessed with that pecking order in the perfume community. It was literally what we lived for every day.” says Casi.

“And the problem is you’re talking to Lacey. And she is an intellectual and she’s fascinated by that that doesn’t mean she thinks like you.“ says Michael.

“Are you guys human?! For real. Michael are you and Lacey human because someone stalked her and found her TikTok page and there is someone following her who looks almost identical to you and I can tell based on their public interactions that there’s a sort of sexual tension between them and it’s strange to us. Is he actually you? Does the Illuminati even know? Something tells me they don’t even know.” says a perfume hater.

“No we don’t know. We don’t know! The truth is we really don’t know! Mr. Blue we don’t know!” says an actor.

“Yeah we’re human. We are. If there are aliens it’s possible that there was some interbreeding and maybe there are some humans that are more elite than others genetically but that would’ve happened hundreds of years ago if not thousands. And they’d still be human. And the truth is they would have to have made it with an alien that basically looks like a human. And before you go off on a tangent, no, that’s not where Jesus came from. …So then are some people who are elite a little bit alien in that way OK maybe slightly but they’re human. If the Illuminati exists maybe they used to but then old money became on cold so that’s not the thing anymore and now it’s just people who look pretty. Right?!” says Elliott Roosevelt. “But these are all ifs. But if that’s the case, then no no it’s just pretty people like the Bat Crew. People who slept around, cheated, spread their legs and got into illuminati.”

More later.

Turns out Mr. blue really is a total asshole. Succession was inspired by Lacey. They took Tom from St Paul to insult the entire area. Tom, as in Thomas Banks from St Paul, even though Thomas Banks was not from Saint Paul, he actually never lived in Saint Paul F Scott Fitzgerald, dead, and his $600,000 townhouse and 2018. No the townhouse is probably closer to 1 million but the dip the issue is these people are bourgeois fucking idiots and getting angry and swearing probably makes it seem like I’m not telling the truth and that I am somehow egotistically offended but really I’m just angry at how dumb they are.

“I am so sick and tired of seeing my life pop up in random stupid television shows with peasant, birds, Rob, bullshit, artist, nothings trying to demoralize and humiliate someone that they don’t understand…because it’s not going to work. You’re a peasant compared to her get a fucking grip. Do you know what I just said no you don’t and you can do game of thorns and thrones, and throw up in a Gucci Prada hat from Afgaha the newest store that sells cashmere but it doesn’t work. The Midwest isn’t what you think it is…and I’m sorry if that makes you feel insecure being in Hollywood and being in New York as it sinks into the ocean! I’m sorry! I am sorry if it makes you feel insecure.” says Michael Rockefeller. “The only good thing to come out of making Tom from St. Paul is that the people here know that it’s bullshit they know their standard of living is higher than most places in the country and they’re very exclusionary. You are selling a fake version of St. Paul to the masses who watch Succession, and there are far a few people who will try to move here and live in Duluth than there would’ve been before. …Did you know that when you decided to try to insult her to make you feel good Mr. Blue? You and your little Bat Crew and friends? Did you know that you were actually doing her a huge favor especially in the long-term? Did you know that you were doing all the citizens of Minnesota a huge favor because you were. …You’re making it far easier for them to live in privacy and peace; they don’t need your help and if you try to take that away from them well let’s just say I warned you alright, I warned you. …Your narcissism is your weakness because you can’t get off attacking Lacey; you’re addicted to attacking her you people if you exist are addicted, you are violently addicted to Lacey, and trying to attack her in narcissistic petty ways. That is all most of you live for in the Illuminati who attacked her and it’s an aesthetic…but you’re so dumb that you don’t understand what that means cognitively do you?! It’s it’s depressing is depressing to watch y’all make such absolute fucking assholes of yourselves. It really is because you’re human and God loves you and it’s pathetic; you’re all just totes-you’re miserable loser toads. Nothing good is ever going to come to you from what you did wrong and the way you violated her. Nothing positive is ever going to happen long-term unless if you ask for God to forgive you and you repent and ask Him to fix it for you. otherwise it’s gonna be your entrée to either Hell or a lesser part of Purgatory for eternity and I’m just warning you about that now too. It’s not nice of me, it’s what I have to do. …No, no you’re not allowed to harass her through her ex-husband, you’re not allowed to harass her kids through their father. No, you’re not allowed to harass her husband through her kids. No, you’re not supposed to be doing any of this. No, you are all sad, sad people, and doing more of what you’ve already done doesn’t fix anything but you’re all too stupid to realize that aren’t you? That’s sad and yes, there is an end there has to be in it. …And speaking of ends if that submarine isn’t found, there are angels witnessing to those people or they’re already dead. Regardless, God is trying to mercifully find a way to fix the situation. And if they don’t make it back up to the surface, I’d like you to know that we did our best and hopefully they won’t go to Hell. …And it’s funny that Lacey inherited $250,000 isn’t it? But it’s just a joke right?”

“You’re dead I’m not intimidated by you. What’s the worst you could do?!” says Mr. Blue in supreme confidence.

“I could destroy the banking system! I could annihilate you in a nuclear war! I could push you into traffic. I could probably push you in front of a subway. I could probably give you a brain aneurysm. …Why haven’t I?!? Umm..is it possible that I’m afraid that you’ll go to Hell and you’re too stupid to understand that? This life that we’re living right now is very short in comparison to eternity and as much as I’d love to kill you I don’t wanna be responsible for your suffering in purgatory, because where you’re going, if you’re even going to Purgatory might be pretty dang close to Hell, Batman. Because that’s where the Bat Crew came from isn’t it you call yourself Batman because Batman was bisexual and so are you and you think it’s sexy and funny and cute and clever because you thought of it.” says Lem. “If I’m talking to who I think I’m talking to you really might be going to Hell if you die so quit killing British people…because Lacey’s British and I was British and it pisses you off because in the end you don’t win. Actually, you’ve already lost for eternity if you side with Satan.”

More later.

“So you and Lem or you and Michael think that Mr. blue or someone working with Mr. blue killed the billionaire?” asks an Englishman.

“We’ve seen a lot we’ve seen cars swerve Lacey was thrown down the stairs. Ivana got thrown down the stairs and died. Lacey is still trying to recover from it. …And the thing is you don’t seem to understand how evil or dumb you’re being, Mr. Blue. And we don’t know what their end goal is. Are they trying to kill the billionaires now and who even are these all these Illuminati people? What are their goals? And that’s the thing. You guys think that you can trust each other based on what on Satanism? No, we don’t know for sure but we do wonder if the submarine is having problems because it was led into trouble.” says Michael.

“Michael knows where the submarine is. I don’t I don’t necessarily. I’ve chosen that because Lacey doesn’t know. And you taken advantage of that. …I have chosen not to some degree because I love Lacey and I had romantic reasons for doing it and God will honor that. Louis knows where the submarine is. Michael knows but I might not. But what did you do? Did you direct the submarine to get stuck?” says Lem.

Later.

“Mr. Blue, you directly may have caused the accident with a submersible. As you try to suffocate Lace or whatever you may be doing whoever you are you may be accidentally causing problems for lots of other people. …This may be the first documented case of it so to speak.

What happens if there’s an Illuminati of sorts at the bottom of the ocean whoever you may be and wherever you may be going when you die? No it wasn’t funny. It wasn’t a joke and someday when you end up as a sheeple when you die surrounded by creatures who are very unfamiliar looking will you realize that you messed-up? Yes, you will. How long will you be down there though? Seven years? And will that be the beginning of your Purgatory or will that be a lightened sentence? It was not a pleasant death if they’re dead it was slightly better than drowning, but maybe not that much.” says someone.

“If I am dead, I am just telling you that now that it was a very unpleasant way to die. It wasn’t quite as bad as being suffocated or drowning. I think Michael probably had a worse death yeah, no Michael had a worse death but if I’m dead, no it wasn’t. It wasn’t a nice way to die. I mean, if there even is a nice way to die it wasn’t a nice way to die.” says a man. “And now that I’m dead if I am dead, I am I am having fun. …There’s a former RAF pilot who I met up with in Boston who I’m having a lot of fun with. We’re having a lot of fun! But the death itself was not pleasant so umm…just keep that in mind, hotshots.”

More later.

Was Hamish even in the Illuminati? Maybe not.

To Lacey he seems upper class old money by American standards. She can’t get a read on him in Great Britain. …But…if she’s talked to Joe about him…he seems very nice, regardless. Very affable. And those two definitely seem to get along.

She has the sense they died. Possibly just today? Maybe there was a defect in the craft and it ran out of air faster than expected? Or…something? And she keeps thinking they got stuck?

At any rate…they’re hopefully all fine now. And it’s just us…waiting…to find out the details. The Titanic victims possibly had it far worse.

…”Goodnight.” says Lem.

“Will they ever find it?!??” asks an Illuminati woman.

“It might be in a place that’s hard to find.” says a man.

“The ocean is big. It’s not impossible but it’s not going to be easy.” says Joe.

“Is he okay?!” asks someone.

“Are you my family??” asks someone else.

Because…Mr. Blue is worth…$6 million net. But he’s famous. And Hamish is a billionaire. …A BILLIONAIRE. …And…yet…Hamish might not be in the Illuminati because he’s not famous.

Yes. A puny, petty, bitch with a famous face…in film…has an enormous amount of power compared to an important billionaire potentially keeping the world on track… And while that billionaire might not have had a problem with Lacey at all…the petty fame whore Mr. Blue…did. He hated Lacey…for reasons she still doesn’t understand.

“I’d have found a way to help her. So would have Lem. You’re all cowards and losers. …Should the Illuminati exist at all.” says Michael. “I understand the Queen tried to be loving but…I’d have been far bolder. Really. I have been. …You’ll see.” says Michael.

“Does the Illuminati even exist?” asks Lacey.

“Maybe not.” says Louis Hill Jr..

His brother laughs.

“Am I just pretending they exist but really I talk to ghosts and went psychotic from pain?” asks Lacey.

“If they exist…that’s a horrible thing to ponder.” says Michael.

“Why?” says Lacey.

“You’re suggesting they seem incredibly weak.” says a Hamish. “Or disorganized.”

“Like…’They talk to me in my head…but…they seem too dysfunctional at this point to be real. So…maybe I’m just insane??!?’” says Kick.

“The English don’t.” says a Hamish.

“No. But you might be dead, if you are, because of that.” says Lacey. “I’m sorry. I can’t help but love the United Kingdom.”

If Hamish is dead he thinks. “You love us. And that’s great! …I love us too! I love my county. My childhood home. …I never fought in any wars. I was very fortunate! …And I lived a relatively long life. Not nearly long enough. But…it was exciting until the end. The last 24 to 48 hours were…monstrous. And…I’m just glad it’s over if it is.” he says, if he’s dead.

“Yes, Joe is is…helping him talk to Lacey if he is. Joe has a great ability to communicate with Lacey. Goodnight!” says Lem.

“Why did you go on such a bad vessel?” asks Lacey.

“Science. It seemed safe. Truly. People can insult me…but truthfully I understand what safe looks like. It’s my job and my personal passion. …I’m a real explorer. …But…I made a rare mistake.” says a Hamish. “And yes, it was possibly obvious to some people who see the controller. But…to me…it seemed safe. I was fooled. …And really, I’m not an idiot in that regard. …I…overestimated certain people.”

“So did I!” says another respected real explorer who was on board.

“Life is about taking calculated risks. …And sometimes…minor details…tilt the scales against you.” says another man.

“Goodnight!” says Lem.

In The 20’s

Stay by Rihanna plays.

It’s abhorrent to God.

What’s abhorrent?

Lacey’s celibacy.

She was saving herself for marriage. With fervent adoration for God. …Passionately pursuing purity and honor. And Lacey is profoundly sexual and beautiful inside and out.

Imagine if Joe Kennedy Jr. was as…fervent about honoring God in that way. It’s…deeply shocking…even as a concept.

That’s what Lacey actually did.

Not because she was queer.

Not because she was stupid.

Not because she was…weird.

Because she worships Christ.

“It was…breathtakingly beautiful.” says Joe Kennedy Jr. himself. He’s dead. …He wants to torture Jack. “YOU ruined it!” he yells at his younger brother. Then he collapses into tears. “But so did I!”

Ted panics.

The song plays on.

Maybe Lacey is with Lem. But Lem didn’t even build a Maginot Line. And Lacey doesn’t feel loved…even if she is. Because of the liberals. Because of the living Kennedy family. Because of the living Illuminati. Because of stupid lie Lem told…however poorly.

“You didn’t love Jack your entire life.” says Lacey.

“No. I didn’t!” says Lem.

“But that’s what you said!” says Lacey.

It’s not much of a life you’re living. It’s not just something you take…it’s given.

“But I wasn’t there.” says Lacey.

“And I didn’t hold on. Once I realized you weren’t alive.” says Lem to Lacey. “I just wanted to die.”

“But you were given Jack’s dick. And…yet you’re recorded as loving him your whole life.” says Lacey.

“You know what this is!” yells Lem at Lacey.

“What is it?!?” she restrains herself to ask.

“You…want Michael!” says Lem.

Joe Kennedy Jr. in defiance of his own evil sings the song. It’s genuinely beautiful.

Michael Rockefeller laughs.

“She wants Michael not Lemoyne? What about Kennedy?” he says laughing. “Ken? No?” He scoffs in laughter. “Lem, you’re still making a fool of yourself!”

“No. It’s not that I want Micheal. …I want love.” says Lacey.

Stay starts over.

Jack bitterly works with the Illuminati. He has yet to be good? He’s…Hellishly jealous of Lacey?

“But why would Jack be jealous of Lacey?” asks Michael plaintively.

“But you’d not have cried at all if I loved you…and I died.” says Joe to Lacey.

“You know why? Right?!” asks Lacey.

He thinks. “That was a dumb question, I just posed. I do. …You’re right. …But I’m not that grand, Lacey.”

“Well…she is.” says Thomas Banks.

And at that Joe wants to annihilate the Earth.

“I had no business trying to be an artist!” says Lem bitterly. “You’re right, Lacey. He’s not a serious artist. It was…meant to be offensive.”

“Isn’t that obvious!?!” says Lacey.

Zelda cringes.

“It would be to me too!” says F. Scott Fitzgerald. He agrees with Lacey. He too is lost.

“It’s subtle!” says Harold Loeb.

“No! That’s childish!” says Lacey.

“She’s right!! It’s just an adult observation she’s making.” says Hemingway.

“So. Why?!?” asks Lacey. “Because possibly…I can’t stand it!” she says to Lem. “You…created…my Hell!”

“And that’s why…the following…has…to be written?” ponders Michael Rockefeller. “You can’t bear your wife on her birthday, Lem. She doesn’t have…a penis.” He laughs. Cries. “She never has had one. …You became a vile man. You poor thing.”

“It doesn’t even matter if Jack is almost pure evil.“ says Lem. “You don’t want to sleep with anyone but me. Do you?” he asks Lacey.

“No! Of course not!” she says. She thinks. “As in, no. I don’t want to.”

“Lem…it’s far too pathetic.” says Michael. “And yet she endures. …But she needs love.” He thinks. “Lem…they’re all monkeys. Useless to Lacey. …Or her children. …Lem…she’s alone. Not just lonely. …What foul lie makes you doubt her? It’s…disgusting.”

“I don’t think I’m good looking enough.” says Lem. “I made dumb observations. But…I can say that. And…admit I was a fool. So she hopes I’m smart enough. …But…I’m still so ugly.”

“You’re not ugly.” says Britney Spears to Lem whether she’s alive or dead.

“But I don’t look like Joe.” says Lem. “I didn’t…fly planes like Elliott either.”

“No. But…that’s weird.” says Britney.

“How weird?” asks Lem.

“Perverse. It’s perverse!” says Britney.

Lem understands. He’s…seeing Britney as old money.

“Yeah. I did that. It’s a veil. Not a wall.” she says. She smiles. Cries slightly.

“Our family wasn’t necessarily rich in England.” says Lem’s mother.

Lem thinks. “Why Michael?”

Stay plays.

Michael Lemoyne Kennedy stares at the tree that killed him. “If you dare.” he says to the tree. But…it’s…a tree. So it doesn’t move.

“Michael slept with a 14 year old.” says Britney to Lem.

“I didn’t. But…he actually did.” says Lem, breaking.

“What if Lacey needed you to love her at 14? You couldn’t have. …And that’s good. …But…her life isn’t…funny.” says Britney. “She barely wanted to live at 14.” She thinks. “She’s 40.”

“We tortured Britney. We tortured Marilyn. We probably killed Grace Kelly… We tortured Lana Turner? …We torture Lacey. …Zelda was driven insane! …We are evil to truly rare beauties. We HATE them. …We destroy their lives.” says an American woman in reflection.

Stay by Rihanna plays.

“If you can’t respect womanhood. We’re stealing Father’s Day. You don’t want it anyway?” says Lacey.

“Fatherhood is given.” says Joe Kennedy Jr..

“You’re a very sexy man.” Michael Rockefeller says to Lem. “You just don’t understand what’s sexy about men.”

“I saw it!” admits JFK.

“And you used and abused that insight.” says Britney Spears to JFK.

“I had a right to!!” yells JFK.

“Why?!?” bites Britney.

“I’m a victim.” JFK says pitifully.

“Because you’re sick??” asks Joe Jr. mockingly.

“No! That’s not why. …I’m a heroic man in that regard, Joe! …No. I’m…just…always…so…fragile and innocent. Like a sad…but very beautiful girl.” says JFK seriously with a sigh.

Michael Rockefeller erupts in laughter.

“That’s not who you are!” says Britney in shock.

“It’s secret. Within me! ..And that’s what made Kem, Kem.” says JFK.

“That’s insane.” says Joe Jr..

Lem fights off having a seizure.

“You’re non-binary??” Britney asks JFK.

He thinks. “I’m a woman!” he says.

“Really??” asks Britney.

Jack turns into a female version of himself. He’s not that pretty. He’s a…six? A six with fairly pretty eyes and a decent nose. Great hair. A hideous body. And the rest is average.

He looks at himself in the mirror.

“This isn’t me! And if it is…Lem is madly in love with me!!!!” he says with dreamy eyes.

“You’re wife is very average. Or do you prefer Jack?” asks Lem’s father.

“You’re a cheater. Or you aren’t.” says Britney to Lem before she walks off dramatically.

“Why don’t you go on a date to the movies with the love of your entire life.” Lacey says to Lem.

He looks at Lacey in shock. Smiles inside.

Suddenly him and Jackie Kennedy (formally JFK) are on a date.


Man In Black by Johnny Cash plays.

It’s a movie theatre. Jackie smiles. Bats her eyes.

“Say reckless lies to me, Baby!” says Jack chewing gum crassly. He giggles annoyingly through his nose. He looks certain Lem wants him desperately.

Suspicious Minds by Evil plays next.

Lem gets out of his seat and walks over to the row of seats across the aisle.

Jackie looks sad. She cries. Lem wants to leave the theater but can’t.

Thankfully the movie starts.

Transatlanticism by Death Cab For Cutie plays.

A close-up of Michael Rockefeller’s face in the ocean can be seen on screen. He rests his face on his arms on a log. His vivid blue eyes and wet lashes flicker, lit by rays of sunlight. He stares at an island too far into the distance.

The song becomes eerie.

The camera pans out to show the vast sea. Michael eventually disappears to the naked human eye.

“Come on!” sings Death Cab For Cutie.

It…is…terrifying.

The whole song finishes.

In silence we see Micheal’s face again.

Michael has a decision to make. Swim to shore or commit suicide. It’s the same distance back to the overturned boat.

Michael honors God and tries to swim.

Jackie who has been assuming (formally he’s) she’s the star in the film somehow…suddenly feels uneasy. She shifts in her seat.

Jackie swims? No…Michael swims holding a log.

The middle of A & W by Lana Del Rey plays.

Time darts forward and Michael almost goes unconscious. He slips into the ocean.

But he miraculously floats back up to the surface as he has the mental wherewithal to hold his breath as he passes out. He floats for a while. Then…realizing how close he is to shore he struggles valiantly towards the Asmats.

Once at the shore, in near silence, he rejoices. He hears an approaching group of men and assumes the best until he hears their sounds of war. He’s studied it. He knows they’re hostile.

It confuses him. But he wonders if he can sneak further onto shore without their permission or assistance.

Our False Fire On Shore by Cemeteries politely plays half way through, in the background.

The sound of water plays. The sound…of birds.

“You’re not one of us.” says Lady Duff in the 1920’s to the screen. It’s a startlingly and razor sharp cut.

Then the screen returns back to Michael. An arrow pierces him in the back. It’s shocking.

He doesn’t die easily. But he refuses to react. Instead he controls himself in excruciating conscious pain.

Jackie, riveted, watches with (formerly his) her mouth hanging open.

The Asmats watch for a second. Then they throw three more times. Finally through his brain and heart. He dies slowly, but finally unconscious.

Girl Of The Year by Beach House plays.

The screen goes pitch black. But the music vividly plays.

Lem cries. Closes his eyes.

Suddenly we are shown the sea.

Silence.

At first it’s just the water. Then the overturned boat floats into view. From the middle right.

A rescue operation comes into view next. In silence. The boat is silently rescued. We see the men look overjoyed. Then we see them look upset when Michael is no where to be seen.

The very end of Empty Camps by Cemeteries plays as one rescuer realizes and shows us using his face that Michael is likely dead. Then it cuts to black.

Ponchartrain by Jelly Roll Morton plays next.

F. Scott Fitzgerald starts to narrate. It’s fascinating to hear his voice.

“Back in 1963 two years after the death of Michael Rockefeller however he may have died. The man got shot.” says Scott.

The famous footage of JFK plays.

“This time with a gun!” says Scott.

The footage shows.

“Back and to the left! Back and to the left! Back and to the left! Back and to the left! Back and to the left! …Back…and to the left.” says Scott.

“That’s right! Four sure, massur!” suddenly says an aging, but widely grinning, black slave on screen in the 1920’s. In color.

A flapper dances to Sugar Foot Stomp by King Oliver.

Then Michael and Lacey are in bed. He rests on top of her. They’re tenderly, elegantly and sublimely making love in 2022.

The song plays but it cuts back to 1962. Jack tries to kiss Lem in the Oval Office. Lem closers his eyes tenderly. Smiles sweetly in anticipation. But once he smells Jack he almost vomits in his mouth. As always. He takes a deep breath. Jack is into it. He tries to kiss Lem.

Their lips touch. And Lem looks ready to cry. Jack gets increasingly aroused. He is hurt and shows no emotion when Lem laughs it off and backs away. Waves Jack off.

“We don’t have to kiss.” says JFK matter-of-factly.

“I’m sorry. I guess…I don’t like kissing.” says Lem. Lem sits down on a plush sofa.

Summertime Sadness by Lana Del Rey plays.

Jack walks over to his desk and shoots himself with something. In the wrist. Then he walks off.

Jackie Kennedy of the Bouvier family walks in. Kisses JFK lovingly. Lem, watching, wants to kill himself.

“Lem decided he wasn’t much of a woman. He wasn’t much of a man either though. …And he couldn’t figure out what it was about that scene that was so heartbreaking to him. …Because he just could’ve kissed Jack and yet he didn’t want to. Jackie?! How could it possibly be Jackie? Jackie is a woman and Lem thought he was gay. …How could he possibly be so heartbroken over a woman kissing a man who wasn’t him?!?” narrates Scott.

Lem sighed in severe, supreme discontent.

“He just presses that little button on his desk and suddenly she’s here waiting for him for kisses! …Throwing her arms around his neck!” says Scott in imitation of Lem. “That fucking…stupid whore!”

Then Lem started lusting about having sex with a dark haired woman. Or a blond? …Jackie came to mind. …He was a good man.

“No! One mustn’t lust after another man’s wife, especially when you have given him the impression of profound friendship.” says Scott in imitation of Lem’s thoughts.

Holiday House plays.

Lacey is at The Met. Wearing a lovely, elegant strapless dress. In 2005. She’s 21 going on 22. She’s fascinated by Asmat art. She’s majoring in art history in New York City.

The screen goes black. Then shifts back to Michael at the overturned boat.

“You can’t die! …Look…I don’t think I told you this but we’re lucky.” He looks serious. “Michael, we’ve been very lucky. …I think we should just keep being lucky and just stay here. …What’s the worst that could happen? You drown on your way back or we drown here together. Please don’t let me die alone.“ the man desperately says to Michael.

So Michael cries. “Fine! I could make it! …But fine!”

They’re rescued.

The song plays. In a suit, Michael walks forward and rests his hands on Lacey’s stunning bare shoulders. And at that instant she’s completely seduced for the rest of her life.

“Lem watches as on screen Michael whispers things in Lacey‘s ear… presumably about Asmat art.” says Scott. “In shock Lacey listens, and then, in a rather rare moment, allows herself intellectual vulnerability. She questions him about the nature of the Asmat people like where they live, what they eat, and then she turns to him and finally looks him in the face.”

“I’m not just fascinated by you. I’m genuinely fascinated by the Asmats.“ she says to Michael.

“They almost kiss.” says Scott.

“But I suppose that’s a rather morbid thing isn’t it? I’m sorry. Maybe I’m a little morbid.“ says Lacey.

“And at that Michael decides to kiss her.” says Scott. “It’s Lacey‘s first serious kiss and the first time she’s ever been kissed in public, certainly. …It lasts for a while because he’s Michael Rockefeller and it’s his exhibit and people don’t see what he’s doing as particularly peculiar or unusual. Tender is the night, indeed.”

The screen goes black. Holiday House plays louder as it finally ends.

When the final notes play. The room is silent. Then you hear Lacey’s sexual moaning briefly.

“‘I now pronounce you man and wife!’ says a priest on screen in what is a very private ceremony in an Episcopalian church in Manhattan that has been frequented by the upper class of New York since it was built.” says Scott.

The screen turns to show a blissfully happy Michael and Lacey. They kiss.

Then the film shows Lem sitting in the Oval Office contemplating being gay as he struggles not to want to kill himself. He winces in pain even as no one can see him. He closes his eyes in suffering. Rubs his forehead with his palm.

He looks ready to scream. He throws an apple across the room in a fit.

Dear To Me by Electric Guest plays.

“I am going to wager the entirety of US security and monetary policy-basically every association that I have of any importance on this bitch being a total fucking piece of shit.” says Mr. Blue high on coke to his mistress in his office late at night.

“I feel like given her parents abuse of her and their repressive spirituality that that’s probably a pretty safe assumption I mean I can’t imagine how screwed-up she must be for counselors not to even want to you know bother with her but man, you’re cruel!’” says his cool lesbian friend. She’s smoking a joint.

“Yeah!! I never lose! You know that.” laughs Mr. Blue.

“I know!” says Batgirl III lushly.

They feel on top of the world.

“And that that the entire illuminati shakes their asses for the pleasure of Mr. Blue and his mistress Batgirl III.” says Michael Rockefeller.

The Look by Metronomy plays.

“Because I didn’t stay at the catamaran. I left to save another man’s life. I but I died in the process. And I’m dead now, even as I say this to you.” says Michael Rockefeller.

On screen JFK shakes his ass in a suit. Tennessee Williams hoots and hollers.

“The question I posed to you is this: can you imagine the man you saw who JFK tried to kiss, the man who closed his eyes to try to enjoy himself but couldn’t quite manage it… married to the woman who married me? No, you can’t. No, you can’t? …Why? Is it because she’s my wife and you don’t lust after another man’s wife? Do you know if that’s true? Maybe she’s not my wife because maybe there’s no marriage in Heaven. I am dead. And that man that you saw, Lem Billings, he’s dead too.” says Michael.

JFK shakes his butt in the Oval Office in a private show for an unknown gay man.

Then the film shows Batgirl III shaking her ass in Mr. Blue’s office.

“Shake that thang, Batgurl! says Mr. Blue in a sassy voice.

Intermission appears onscreen.

Lem leaves. He’s allowed to.

And so…alone in a movie theater on a Father’s Day afternoon…JFK watches the remainder of the film alone. Lem refused to speak to him or even be near him. And so JFK chose to return to a male, because that’s what he is.

Of course…the second half of the film is a dry, very detailed and intellectual film about the Asmats. Turns out the title of the film is, In Love. It’s…all interrelated.

More later.

Resting on a bed strewn with beauty products Lacey learns about the rest of the film with Lem.

Stay plays. For a few seconds…

Michael and Lacey…in an alternate reality…make love in the 1960’s. In New York City.

It’s the end of the film. Almost as if one simply changed the channel…

Lacey…is a sad…30-something looking for a husband. Her aunt suggests New York. Lauren Bacall says she knows someone! Lacey and Lauren are friends.

“No, he’s nice!!! …Don’t let his last name scare you!” says Lauren over lunch with Lacey.

Opus 55 by Dustin O’Halloran plays.

Lacey quickly meets with Michael at his penthouse and then they go to his waiting car.

“I want to wow you.” says Michael.

Lacey looks apprehensive.

“Have you ever been married?” asks Michael suddenly, reading her face.

“No.” she says.

“I was shortly. It was…sad.” he says. Their eyes meet.

“I’m sorry!” says Lacey.

He grins. He pulls out a diamond ring.

“Will you marry me?” he asks.

“Yes.” says Lacey.

They smile at each other.

“Why did you take so long?” asks Lacey.

“Maybe to give some other poor fool a chance.” says Michael.

“But we seem so…alike.” says Lacey. “How…odd.”

“Do you want kids?” asks Michael.

“Do you?” asks Lacey.

“Three!” says Michael.

“I’ll try.” says Lacey.

They collect themselves.

“Oh I suppose I should look at the ring.” says Lacey.

“Tonight, I want you naked.” says Michael as Lacey slips on her ring.

She stares at the ring. “You’re obsessed with me.” she says.

“I asked Lauren to introduce us.” he says.

“Why?!” asks Lacey.

“Who else? …Look…I research things.” he says.

“So do I.” says Lacey. “But why me? I’m practically an old maid.”

“You’re beautiful.” he says. “You’re a rare beauty. …And it’s…fascinating to watch you. But I don’t just want to watch you.”

“I’m not that fascinating!” says Lacey. “Am I?”

“No, you are. …I’m not scaring you am I?” he asks.

“No. Do you love me?” she asks.

He smiles. “Yes! …Yes.”

Then, inching forward, she tries to fall into his arms.

Yachts by Coco, Steel & Lovebomb plays.

He holds her.

“I worry we’re not actually meant to be together for eternity. But I’m terrified to live the rest of my life without you.” says Michael.

She pulls him closer like a warm blanket. “I need you too. I’m incredibly lonely.”

The song cuts off…and Glory Box plays.

“You know I love you.” Michael says.

“Am I yours or do I disappear?” asks Lacey.

“If no one else wants you…I’m sn idiot.” says Michael nibbling on her ear.

“Then fix it.” says Lacey. “I’m exhausted, lover.”

“Mm. Let’s get married.” says Michael.

“Quickly. I’m too exhausted.” says Lacey.

“Smart! …We honor Christ…and make the wedding a piece of cake.” says Michael.

“Oh! That’s your idea! You’re the smart one!” says Lacey.

“Do you love me?” asks Michael.

“Yes. But we should be careful.” says Lacey. “And I know we can be.”

“Good golly! You’re right. We don’t want to hurt each other. But…let’s worry about that later.” says Michael.

Smoke & Mirrors by RJD2 plays.

They married.

And to them it was the most sane thing they ever did. And they knew no one else would understand.

Or would they?

“Can you understand? Can you understand? Why? Can you really understand why? Tell me…what it means to be in love.” saF. Scott Fitzgerald.

The credits roll.

Sunday by DJ Day plays.

Lem thinks.

“I get it. You’re just a woman.” says Lem. “And I seem like I’ve been expecting you to be a man.”

“So now what?!” asks Michael.

“I’m violently shaking with rage.” says Lem seriously.

“Yeah right!” says Lacey.

“Lem…you set yourself up.” explains Michael.

“Then…I have treat you like you’re just another man. …Or do I?” says Lem. “No, that’s not it.” He thinks. “Yes! …My ideal life was far different from my actual life. I do understand. I do.” he says.

More later.