Today on The Beautiful Ones one of Lucia's favorite characters, Belinda Bradford, was supposed to get married. Oh, what a wedding that would be! There would be splendid cakes and beautiful dresses and men dressed in handsome tuxedos--how she wished she had been invited! She was like a little bird alone all day in her roof-top cage, and these characters were the only real friends that she had--she loved them as if they were her own family. When they were sick, she prayed to the Saints to heal them, when they had joy, she shared in it, when they died, she wept until her eyes were red and pleaded with the Blessed Virgin to forgive their many sins (and ho, how they sinned!) and allow them to enter into eternal peace with the Heavenly Father.

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