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Familia Snape

Primera Generación:

¤ Morphin Nikolai Snape y Tallulah Aurelia Snape

Segunda generación:

¤ Ilona Octavia Snape y Viktor Kirtking Snape

¤ Bellona Demetria Snape y Aurelius Amadeus Willowdee

¤ Tanith Marcellina Snape y Albion Casimir Snape

Tercera Generación:

¤ Gabriel Soren Snape y Conan Levi Malfoy

¤ Sonja Cassandra Snape y Lucian Rowland Snape

¤ Selene Belladona Snape y Michael Thomas Corvin

¤ Morgana Drucilda Willowdee y Octavius Mortifer Dollins

¤ Belvina Anastasia Willowdee y Alexander Andreas Kane

¤ Silvanus Alestair Snape y Minerva Dorinda Primrose

¤ Cornelius Devereux Snape y Nocturna Evelyn Nightwood

¤ Almeric Lazarus Snape y Amarah Senka Lonwood

¤ Esperanza Medea Snape y Mereida Azura Blackwood

¤ Theodocia Isidora Snape y Centar Ismaband Blackwood

Cuarta Generación:

¤ Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore y Gellert Amadeus Grindelwald

¤ Aberforth Florian Leighton Soren Dumbledore y Belvina Vega Black

¤ Ariana Odolette Wilhemina Dumbledore y Arcturus II Alioth Black

¤ Tom Marvolo Riddle y Kara Sonia Milford

¤ Valens Basilius Snape y Charles Hunter Levin

¤ Tobias Vincent Snape y Eileen Aiko Prince

¤ Pamela Demetria Malfoy y Elias Paul Voorhees

¤ Abraxas Ariel Malfoy y Renatha Edith Oswald

¤ Evageline Ethel Malfoy y Lazarus Granville Sparda

¤ Bianca Brooke Di Angelo y Thalia Eliza Grace

¤ Nico Ethan Di Angelo y Perseus Lorcan Jackson

¤ Theodore Lev Snape y Marcus Casimir Corvinus

¤ Ethan Joseph Snape y David Monsse Conberg

¤ Eve Ilaria Corvin y Logan Brad Fowler

¤ Raymond Vincent Dollins y Juliette Umbra Walker

¤ Sebastian Andrew Dollins y Adrianna Asura Walker

¤ Micah Vladimir Dollins y Raven Tenebra Walker

¤ Benjamin Caleb Kane y Aaron Leonard Luthor

¤ Natalie Eileen Snape y Bastian Abraxas Prince

¤ Octavian Demetrius Snape y Abigail Aura Cooper

¤ Percival Valentine Snape y Willow Delilah Lake

¤ Archibald August Snape y Phineas Atticus Moose

¤ Piper Delilah Snape y Alvin Nicholas Dream

¤ Flora Alyssandra Snape y Louis William Afton

¤ Colette Silver Snape y Kenneth Horace Orville

¤ Nikolaus Rafferty Snape y Nika Dominika Winston

¤ Evageline Danica Blackwood y Claude Tobias Harley

¤ Gabrielle Victoria Blackwood y Gideon Silas Murphy

¤ Belladona Tabitha Blackwood y Quentin Ulysses Orson

¤ Nimue Andromeda Blackwood y Balthasar Ignatius Fitzhugh

¤ Valtor Phoenix Blackwood y Ninette Madeline Sutton

¤ Dimitry Avalon Blackwood y Thalassa Estelle Rex

Quinta Generación:

¤ Credence Aurelius Dumbledore y Lycoris Lyra Black

¤ Modesty Orianna Dumbledore y Michelle Caroline Miller

¤ Valentine Desmond Dumbledore y Leroy Samuel Cooley

¤ Octavius Theodore Dumbledore y Minerva Ursula Parker

¤ Cassandra Eliza Dumbledore y Zivar Pollux Galanford

¤ Callidora Eridanis Black y Harfang Ernest Longbottom

¤ Cedrella Oriana Black y Septimus Ronald Weasley

¤ Charis Scorpia Black y Caspar Dorian Crouch

¤ Trish Clarice Riddle y "Lady" Mary Ann Arkham

¤ Vanessa Octavia Riddle y Tom Spencer Peters

¤ Delphinie Savannah Riddle y Serena Angelette Denford

¤ Dominika Hazel Levin y Thomas Downey Richardson

¤ Vincent Alexander Levin y Daphne Rosie Campbell

¤ Niven Finnian Levin y River Aura Stone

¤ Malorie Estella Levin y Ivan Adonis Novak

¤ Severus Tobias Snape y Ulaz Devereux Snape

¤ Ryou Nathan Snape y Krolia Serenity Kogane

¤ Jason Ezra Voorhees y Michael Gideon Myers

¤ Diana Madeline Voorhees y Mason Samuel Kimble

¤ Lucius Abraxas Malfoy y Narcissa Meissa Black

¤ William Joseph Dixon y Cassandra Allegra Lewis

¤ Vergil Amon Sparda y Faith Mackenzie Myron

¤ Dante Alastor Sparda y Hope Catherine Myron

¤ Victor Jethro Grace y Ryan Christopher Everett

¤ Aurelia Peregrine Grace y Sebastian Artemis Jensen

¤ Ian Mason Jackson y Bellona Damara Huxley

¤ Ada Demetria Jackson y Azura Jasmine Brooks

¤ Kitty Xanthe Jackson y Charlotte Marcellina Donovan

¤ Sansa Calypso Corvinus y Thomas Nicholas Parkinson

¤ September Lev Corvinus y Tanith Amara Walker

¤ Flora Pandora Snape y Xenophilius Leland Lovewood

¤ Thora Margot Fowler y Marc Anthony Marcelly

¤ Lyra Beatrix Fowler y Lorenzo Finnian Donnelly

¤ Morgan Ariella Fowler y Nolan Cassander Delaney

¤ Ruby Hilda Dollins y Miles Oliver Corwin

¤ Luna Stephanie Dollins y Theon August Dresden

¤ Noah Jonah Dollins y Helena Roxane Ansel

¤ Stanford Nathaniel Dollins y Nita Evelyn Paxton

¤ Mortimer Morphin Dollins y Martin Jonathan Flint

¤ Elizabeth Tallulah Dollins y Valens Vatlos Braken

¤ Janeth Mirella Dollins y Stefano Nova Fox

¤ Arya Eloise Kane y Constatine Nikolai Hudson

¤ Angelette Lucille Kane y Yuri Vladimir Ivanovich

¤ Azrael Finnian Kane y Luciana Angela Ortiz

¤ Niven Ezra Kane y Mikhaila Juniper Orion

¤ Carlisle Damien Kane y Serena Laurel Ranger

¤ Basilius Sebastian Prince y Ida Scarlett Lennox

¤ Felix Robert Prince y Jane Ophelia Miller

¤ Jasper Wyatt Prince y Marlene Elora Lawson

¤ Edward Henry Prince y Selene Stella Harper

¤ Adrien Scott Snape y Calliope Ivory Bronx

¤ Raphael Patrick Snape y Mirah Colette Cain

¤ Richard Lawrence Snape y Galilea Lyra Dexter

¤ Francine Eliza Snape y Michael Francis Oakley

¤ Connie Violet Snape y Tallulah Vera Lake

¤ Melissa Barbara Snape y Eugene Jordan Morrinson

¤ Morticia Moira Snape y Kiyoko Asahina

¤ Morterius Mortimer Snape y Reina Matsumoto

¤ Jeremy Vincent Dream y Sabrina Addison Riley

¤ Nathan Samuel Dream y Piper Aurora Harrow

¤ Bruce Steven Dream y Nicolette Grace Tyson

¤ Adeliza Morigan Afton y Emmett Blake Cartet

¤ Daemon October Afton y Darrel Cael Ossory

¤ Violetta Ursuline Afton y Jeffrey Hunter Jefferson

¤ Minerva Rowena Afton y Leonard Robert Leighton

¤ Doria Judith Orville y Dominic Alexander Edevane

¤ Ryan Joshua Orville y Alice Isidora Jones

¤ Agatha Rachel Orville y Jeremiah Andrew Evans

¤ Carlotta Katherine Snape y Owen Stephen O'Kelly

¤ Ethan Elijah Harley y Larissa Daphne Davis

¤ Giovanni Mortimer Harley y Ariel Danica O'Ryan

¤ Vincent Oliver Harley y Amelie Luna Roberts

¤ Bastian Lynx Murphy y Arya Ruby Forrest

¤ Theodore Niven Murphy y Ursa Aries Black

¤ Dominika Valda Murphy y Arthur Russel Glenwood

¤ Callista Eliza Orson y Callista Addison McCoy

¤ Morterius Finnian Orson y Jessamine Robinia Bathory

¤ Victoria Hilda Orson y Sabine Belladona Volkov

¤ Margot Elizabeth Orson y Pietro Leroy Carrington

¤ Riven Alexander Blackwood y Petra Victoria Hayden

¤ River Stella Blackwood y Jasper August Moore

¤ Chloe Henrietta Blackwood y Griffin Cyrus Lexington

¤ Vanessa Tabitha Blackwood y Miles Herman Goodwin

¤ Ivan Septimus Blackwood y Rosie Olive Brown

¤ Amadeus Artemas Blackwood y Hariett Emily de Loughrey

Sexta Generación:

¤ Lilith Moira Riddle y Julian Cameron Gray

¤ Bloom Larissa Peters y Sky Aurelius

¤ Hazel Opal Peters y Magnus Roman Watson

¤ Theodore August Peters y Meredith Mavis Monroe

¤ Cora Stephanie Riddle y

¤ Arabella Diane Riddle y

¤ Francis Ezra Riddle y

¤ Aaron Christopher Riddle y Verena Michelle Dyer

¤ Joshua Stephen Riddle y Esther Amalia Holt

¤ Charles Samuel Riddle y Ruby Stephanie Saffron

¤ Iris Aurelia Riddle y Marshal Everett Conrad

¤ Theophania Calliope Richardson y Corinne Roxanne Everleigh

¤ Arabella Beatrix Richardson y Henry Oliver Brookes

¤ Kai Dominick Richardson y Flynn Milo Wolf

¤ Willow Cosima Levin y Nicoletta Pomona Wilford

¤ Fern Violet Levin y Marie Honoria Ollivander

¤ Euphemia Alessandra Levin y Jhon Florean Palmer

¤ Dorothea Giovanna Levin y Elladora Eloise Gibson

¤ Salazar Lucius Levin y Holly Avalon Barnes

¤ Eleanor Hope Levin y Savannah Genevieve Shaw

¤ Gracie Isadora Novak y Marvin Declan Sullivan

¤ Alec Aurelian Novak y Claire Piper Johan

¤ Mason Ezekiel Novak y Clementine Octavia Albion

1)¤ Lotor Comet Snape y Raphael Percival Rosier

2)¤ "Moon Demon" Darius Angelo Snape y "Dark Angel " Arianne Alysson Snape

3)¤ "Killer Shadow" Lazarus Ignatius Snape y "Ice Demon" Urania Calliope Snape

¤ Morterius Viktor Snape y Hisirdoux Artemas Casperan

4)¤ Regris Niven Snape y Acxa Valda Snape

5)¤ Kevin Ethan Snape y Gwendolyn Stephanie Tennyson

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8)¤ Regulus Orion Snape y Abel Austin Khemse

9)¤ Cygnus Arcturus Snape y Frederic Alistair Weasley

10)¤ Elle Rigel Snape y Matsuda Touta

11)¤ Beyond Aurelian Snape y Mikami Teru

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15)¤ Alexander Valens Snape y Magnus Sebastian King

16)¤ Lysander Nikolaus Snape y Vladimir Micah Masters

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¤ Keith Akira Snape y James Oliver Griffin

¤ Morgana Kendra Voorhees y Karin Delilah Summers

¤ Jessica Lorna Kimble y Steven Malcom Freeman

¤ Audrey Andromeda Malfoy y Andre Perseus Bourgeois

¤ Gabriel Bastian Malfoy y Emilie Calliope Graham de Vanily

¤ Roynard Hydra Malfoy y Violet Rowena Deekers

¤ Raymond Lynx Malfoy y Cedric Atticus Diggory

¤ Draco Lucius Malfoy y Astoria Coraline Greengrass

¤ Merle Ariel Dixon y "Jesus" Paul Finnegan Rovia

¤ Daryl Hunter Dixon y Rick Jonah Grimes

¤ Vitale Astaroth Sparda y Luka Nicholas Sparda

¤ Neron Asura Sparda y Kyrie Serena Kiernan

¤ Merak Emory Sparda y Portia Manon Hendrix

¤ Loretta Margot Grace y Calvin Raphael Foxglove

¤ Julius Grant Grace y Ivy Roxanne Baxley

¤ Benjamin Vidar Grace y Edgar Zachary Maddox

¤ Ophelia Nozomi Jensen y Cordelia Avery Bkwie

¤ Eileen Victoria Jensen y Silvius Dael Sinclair

¤ Thomas Lysander Jensen y Othello Natalie Reeve

¤ Nova Genesis Jackson y Allison Leah Reid

¤ Losa Iris Brooks y Briar Anais Tedford

¤ Nina Rosie Brooks y Asa August Harding

¤ Connor Cyrus Brooks y Sandra Sabine Simmons

¤ Esme Aurora Donovan y Maxine Riley Crosby

¤ Arabella Cassidy Donovan y Robert Dashiell. Davenport

¤ Arianne Odette Donovan y Terrence Gideon Graves

¤ Kendra Alessandra Donovan y Alexis Scarlett Bishop

¤ Cassandra Abigail Donovan y James Anthony West

¤ Pansy Genevieve Parkinson y Theodore Phineas Nott

¤ Ursa Alexa Corvinus Y Narcissa Hazel Ripley

¤ Nora Alyssa Corvinus y Lydia Skylar Abernathy

¤ Annabelle Danica Corvinus y Rowan Vladimir Norwood

¤ Luna Pandora Lovewood y Rolf Elijah Matthew Scamander

¤ Ronan Artemis Marcelly y Adam Timothy Reed

¤ Giovanni Octavius Marcelly y Robin Mikhaila Mckinley

¤ Ivan Alistair Marcelly y James Christopher Peters

¤ Mika Valentina Donnelly y Arthur Ethan Bowers

¤ Damien September Delaney y Melione Rowena Robinson

¤ Kira Dominika Delaney y Marlon Oliver Williams

¤ Kanna Amelia Delaney y Gael Ethan Byron

¤ Nicholas Hadrien Delaney y Madison Edith Emerson

¤ Armand Demetrius Corwin y Persephone Aspen Cormac

¤ Tatiana Aubrey Corwin y Marcella Carolinne Cervenka

¤ Pandora Evageline Corwin y Cecilia Honoria Van Frietag

¤ Natasha Penelope Dresden y Donna Mary Berkshire

¤ Emily Alisha Ansel y Nana Eliza Martin

¤ Isabelle Veronica Ansel y Carmen Emilia Reyes

¤ Kenneth Paul Dollins y Ella Isabella Evans

¤ Joseph Herman Dollins y Juliet Corina Rogers

¤ Hailey Amelia Flint y Lucia Naomi Barnes

¤ Ashley Jasmine Flint y Maxwell Benjamin Norton

¤ Piper Savannah Flint y Louis Howart Daxton

¤ Chase Akira Braken y Felix Lucius Quinn

¤ Florian Narcissus Braken y Colin Leonard Frone

¤ Callum Daniel Fox y Marjorie Katie Vance

¤ Dante Ezra Fox y Leila Juniper Thomson

¤ Nathan Soren Fox y Matthias Isaac Parker

¤ Magnus Gideon Fox y Desmond Ethan McReynolds

¤ Lucian Harrison Fox y Apollo Anthony Greene

¤ Jude Eli Hudson y Theodore Declan Vesper

¤ Olive Genesis Ivanovich y David Cameron Canyon

¤ Tate Roman Ivanovich y Molly Aurora Wiley

¤ Ivory Leah Ivanovich y Diane Barbara Jennings

¤ Devon Julian Kane y Ophelia Pauline Colins

¤ Claudine Barbara Kane y Matthew Benjamin Rothchild

¤ Castiel Dominc Kane y Charlie Isaac Lauder

¤ Natasha Bella Kane y Mackenzie Riley Hills

¤ Caroline Samantha Kane y Sarah Emma Fuller

¤ Harper Eva Kane y Daniel Michael Baker

¤ Henry Jasper Kane y Duncan Joshua Evas

¤ Nathan Pietro Kane y Elijah Maxwell Crimson

¤ June Opal Kane y Felix Octavius Rhodes

¤ Jane Ophelia Kane y Angelo Dominic Lowell

¤ Aldora Corinne Prince Amora Lyra Stout

¤ Odolette Lila Prince y Thalia Cora Fulton

¤ Amon Rowan Prince y Elira Bianca Thorton

¤ Amelia Robin Prince y Nicolo Dorian Guthrie

¤ Alastor Robert Prince y Dinah Pandora Pearson

¤ Gavin Marshall Prince y Megara Eloise Lang

¤ Sean Colin Prince y Rebecca Odette Douglas

¤ Renee Tara Prince y Miles Edgar Lambert

¤ Eric Lance Snapey y Millicent Corinne Curtis

¤ Marlon Levi Snape y Lily Alyssa Yancer

¤ Luther Garth Snape y Judith Naomi Tailyour

¤ Hannah Ebony Snape y Lincoln Nathan Penfold

¤ Marie Clarice Snape y Leslie Regan Eastwood

¤ Jade Tiffany Snape y Leah Eliana Rees

¤ Grant Devin Snape y Geraldine Annalie Harfield

¤ Dean Leighton Snape y Fiona Charity Wheeler

¤ Mason Riley Oakley y Cartie April Willis

¤ Morgan Harley Oakley y Ian Paul Wenman

¤ Robert Damian Lake y Marion Corinne Turner

¤ Roy Ethan Morrinson y Griffin Rhett Essex

¤ Joy Ebony Morrinson y Kilian Lee Rowell

¤ Holden Ethan Snape y Eleanor Nadia Heron

¤ Corey Silas Snape y Jane Lydia Orchard

¤ Astrid Juliette Snape y Rhonda Hope Pataki

¤ Tate Julian Snape y James Ronan Poole

¤ Soren Jaspn Snape y Carmen Marianna Rojas

¤ Edgar Samuel Snape y Ingrid Ianthe Lauder

¤ Castiel Gabriel Dream y Cecilia Ember Bonavich

¤ Callum Paul Dream y Avalon Ginevra Carmichael

¤ Cedric Ernest Dream y Bathilda Sibyll Irvine

¤ Garett Elia Dream y Padma Orla Astor

¤ Austin Jordan Dream y Magenta Pomona Hearst

¤ Daryl Silvanus Dream y Nuru Sura Van Doren

¤ Calliope Scarlett Dream y Gemma Pomona Windsor

¤ Cordelia Maribelle Carter y Ivar Rainn Kline

¤ Howart Steven Carter y Sylvia Peyton Bechtel

¤ Lysander Casimir Carter y Enid Jivanta Galumba

¤ Pierre Milford Afton y Kylie Olivia McKeehan

¤ Rupert Stanley Afton y Andrea Jocelyn Varner

¤ Warren Philip Jefferson y Michelle Sabine Castle

¤ Ellie Audrey Jefferson y Shireen Monroe Marks

¤ Giselle Corina Leighton y Mia Velvet Bushnell

¤ Odette Marina Leighton y Nicoletta Verona Goldstein

¤ Larissa Dirina Leighton y Winry Carmina Montgomery

¤ Magnus Cassidy Edevane y Harry Leroy Baker

¤ Stella Andromeda Orville y Harold Russell Mcquiston

¤ Lucille Arabella Orville y Jace Colton Rutledge

¤ Lee Amos Evans y Zoey Makayla Camfield

¤ Cadmus Orion Evans y Trudy Nayala Lovell

¤ Florean Newton Evans y Xenia Sybil Herron

¤ Ivory Ooal Evans y Edmund Wilfred Frankham

¤ Luisa Veronica O'Kelly y Connor Evan Carson.

¤ Finn Andrew Harley y Portia Marilyn Curtis

¤ Abel Nolan Harley y Bonnie Thea Proudley

¤ Louis Xander Harley y Petunia Jamie Deakins

¤ Claire Norah Harley y Lance Chandler Western

¤ Camille Loena Harley y Myrtle Denise Golby

¤ Cora Adelaide Harley y Selma Kelsey Hicks

¤ Juliette Theodora Harley y Daisy China Kempster

¤ Cyrus Maximua Harley y Meredith Shannon Crocker

¤ Horatio Gideon Harley y Heidi Antoinette Deacon

¤ Dorothea Euphemia Harley y Terence Xavier Croucher

¤ Violetta Leopoldine Murphy y Franklin Leonidas Burton

¤ Nova Orion Murphy y Faustina Spencer Odam

¤ Comet Sky Murphy y Yvonne Wilhemina Hibberd

¤ Phoenix Bianca Murphy y Rosalie Simone Stratton

¤ Celestine Xiomara Glenwood y Rylan Waylon Mills

�� Isla Cosima Glenwood y Neil Rowan Lee

¤ Jacqueline Glennda McCoy y Jarome Staley Orline

¤ Ann Marie McCoy y Ridley Everett Anderson

¤ Apoline Elian McCoy y Simom Edward Thompson

¤ Aubrey Lynn Orson y Braxton Hunter Young

¤ Amelia Faith Orson y Ryland Linden Allen

¤ Lucy Ella Volkov Jacob Jhon Wright

¤ Freya Leah Volkov y Rome Canyon Adams

¤ Martin Lane Volkov y Brianna Mirella Collins

¤ Monet Valentina Volkov y Callahan Anselm Morris

¤ Robinia Venus Carrington y Aragon Glorianne Watson

¤ Damon Micah Carrington y Selie Nia Rise

¤ Calla Seraphina Balckwood y Ariel Calyx Reid

¤ Adriana Norah Blackwood y Windsor Athen Foster

¤ Trevor Narcissus Blackwood y Larry Eugene Fraser

¤ Heather Kalina Moore y Lucilius Nicholas McIntosh

¤ Bernadette Alexa Moore y Ares Gabriel McLean

¤ Althea Ruby Lexington y Trinity Elizabeth Bland

¤ Camellia Iris Lexington y Damian Anthony Boswell

¤ Taylor Sidney Lexington y Fabian Dominic Bartlett

¤ Elena Vittoria Lexington y Athena Aubree Birch

¤ Oris Edward Goodwin y Ryleigh Nadia Chapman

¤ Archer Emrys Goodwin y Paisley Autumm Pannell

¤ Raphaela Esperalda Goodwin y Ryder Quentin Hamilton

¤ Ike Neron Goodwin y Bailey Stephanie Adams

¤ Lilianna Persephone Blackwood y Jared Fabian Crawford

¤ Albert Christopher Blackwood y Gemma Alyna Gibson

¤ Alfred Stella Blackwood y Nicholas Julian Munro

¤ Rose Mary Blackwood y Sebastian robert Walker

¤ Bernard Alden Blackwood y Katherine Calliope McGregor

¤ Benjen Isaiah Blackwood y Seraphina Harper Docherty

¤ Lewis Beckett Blackwood y Samirah Luna Ross

¤ Vlaire Harley Blackwood y Aurora Isabelle Gordon

Septima Generación

¤ Abigail Elizabeth Gray y Angel Nicholas Romero

¤ Jareth Jefferson Gray y Nimue Manon Valerian

¤ Lucille Hazel Gray y Helena Danica Valerian

¤ Wendy Elora Gray y Diana Amelie Valerian

¤ Jamie Arlan Peters

¤ Star Demetria Peters y Beck

¤ Blue Danae Peters

¤ Caroline Victoria Watson y Elijah Phineas Butler

¤ Sophie Marianna Watson y Seth Dorian Deacon

¤ Garth Theodore Watson y Rosalie Tabitha Willett

¤ Evangeline Tallulah Peters y Malody Colette Ray

¤ Angelo William Peters y Luciana Angelica Rodriguez

¤ Arthur Elijah Riddle y Gwendolyn Stella Huntington

¤ Hank Bernard Riddle y Ralph Franklin Grimaldi

¤ Olive Ocravia Riddle y Mabel Charlotte Clemonte

¤ Ocean Lavender Riddle y Terra Olive Grigg

¤ Terry Wilder Riddle y Violetta Harper Quantum

¤ Alan August Riddle y Barbara Amelie Warner

¤ Ronald Victor Riddle y Micah Cassius Ferrell

¤ Nancy Cosima Riddle y Desmond Julian Norton

¤ Mary Juniper Riddle y Felicity Ottilia Ansol

¤ Cheryl Marina Riddle y Raphale Simon Loomis

¤ Timothy Riven Riddle y Loretta Elise Hopkins

¤ Linda Euphemia Riddle y Edwin Max Oakland

¤ Lucius Ethani Riddle y Daniel Miles Stevens

¤ Malia Portia Weston y Gavin Dylan Wells

¤ Claire Georgina Weston y Bob Stanley Cooper

¤ Julian Alden Weston y Vivienne Rodinka Mustow

¤ Cameron Thaddeus Weston y Percy Monroe Parker

¤ Camille Opal Weston y Leora Winter Joles

¤ Savannah Honoria Weston y Othello Scarlett Pike

¤ Annalie Electra Everleigh y Millicent Rhonda Weir

¤ Seth Edgar Everleigh y Matilda Rosalie Weir

¤ Hermione Isadora Brooks y Marlon Carlton Tenne

¤ Herman Ignatius Brooks y Julius Oliver Cooley

¤ Judith Lavinia Brooks y Hugo Gilbert Jones

¤ Jedidiah Jasper Wolf y Ezra Thomas Miller

¤ Isidor Hadrian Wolf y Gretcher Genevieve Douglas

¤ Ingrid Avery Wolf y Parker Logan McKay

¤ Melanie Ariana Wolf y Matthew Roman Burns

¤ Grace Mackenzie Wolf y Ophelia Lyra Bell

¤ Demetrius Niccolo Levin y Mackenzie Meissa Giles

¤ Castiel Timothy Levin y Roxanne Ivory Sherwood

¤ Giovanni Balthazar Levin y Henrietta Marine Pinford

¤ Felicity Alexa Levin y Claude Victor Isaacs

¤ Serenity Adeline Levin y Gilbert Leonard Pierce

¤ Nellie Elizabeth Ollivander y Grover Zachary Janos

¤ Valerie Lenna Ollivander y Theodore Dustin Rose

¤ Gael Francis Ollivander y Martha Emily Newland

¤ Ella Louisa Palmer y Arthur Jared Sbeen

¤ Philomena Emersyn Gibson y Julian Milo Holland

¤ Michelle Natalie Gibson y Henry Joshua Sandler

¤ Draco Artemas Levin

¤ Evan Alastor Levin

¤ Regulus Leland Shaw

¤ Druella Lilian Shaw

¤ Sarah Makhaila Sullivan

¤ Nora Hope Sullivan

¤ James Luka Sullivan

¤ Katie Violetta Novak

¤ Bartemius Amos Novak

¤ Marietta Jean Novak

¤ Fenrir Viktor Novak

¤ Baghilda Alice Novak

¤ Rolanda Severina Novak

¤ Lee Thomas Novak

¤ Morterius Aries Lestrange

¤ Morticia Ursa Lestrange

¤ Honerva Piper Lestrange

¤ Allura Rhaella Lestrange

¤ Severus Vincent Lestrange

¤ "Mad Thrill"

¤ "Infernal Void"

¤ "Mercenary Shadow"

¤ "Assassin Silver"

¤ "Defiant Spear"

¤ Valtor Christopher Volturi y Ogron Demetrius Kymer

¤ Dimitry Raphael Vanderwood y Jihyun Kim

¤ Aizawa Otsutsuki y Enji Todoroki

¤ Rhaegar Targaryen y Elia Martell

¤ Leslie Aaron Volturi y Ruben Kenneth Victoriano

¤ Evan Nova Casperan y Leigh Taylor Ainsworth

¤ Firkle Jonah McNamara y Ike Harley Broflovski

¤ Brick JoJo y Momoko Atsutsumo

¤ Boomer JoJo y Miyako Gōtokuji

¤ Butch Jojo y Kaoru Matsubara

¤ Levi Alexander Ackerman y Erwin Joseph Smith

¤ Avalon Jason Snape y Josie Terra Marion

¤ Saeyoung Choi y Jumin Han

¤ Saeran Choi y Yoosung Kim

¤ Castiel Vincent Sparda y Nathaniel Jacott

¤ Shaena Targaryen y Benjen Stark

¤ Richard Jhon Grayson

¤ Pitch Kendall Casperan y Jackson Ice Frost

¤ Armin Ariel Casperan y Lysandro Ainsworth

¤ Alexy Matthew Kogane y Kentin O'Connor

¤ Daeron Targaryen y Urrigon Greyjoy

¤ Jason Peter Todd y Roy Xander Harper

¤ Osomatsu Matsuno y Reiji Sakamaki

¤ Karamatsu Matsuno

¤ Choromatsu Matsuno

¤ Ichimatsu Matsuno y Yuma Mukami

¤ Jyuchimatsu Matsuno y Shuu Sakamaki

¤ Todomatsu Matsuno

¤ Gaella Targaryen

¤ Gaelle Targaryen y Nymeria Sand

¤ Aegon Targaryen y Lynesse Hightower

¤ Timothy Jackson Drake y Lucien Draven Bloodmarch

¤ Alesandro Darius Volturi y Marcus Donovan Volturi

¤ Jaehaerys Targaryen y Obara Sand

¤ Viserys Targaryen y Aurane Velaryon

¤ Damian Wayne y Jonathan Kent

¤ Rhaedall Targaryen y Domeric Bolton

¤ Rhaemyra Targaryen y Mya Stone

¤ Riven Thrall y Helia Thrall

¤ Duncan Thrall y Gwen Violet Rusell

¤ Simon Abaader

¤ Scarlett Abaader

¤ Nora Naida Abaader y Alfor Raphael McClain

¤ Geralt Nicolo Casperan y Jaskier Dandelion

¤ Mei Ling Young

¤ Chloe Bourgeois y Kagami Tsuguri

¤ Adrien Matthew Malfoy y Luka Keith Couffaine

¤ Scorpius Hyperion Malfoy y Albus Severus Potter

¤ Devlin Nikolai Snape

¤ Ruby Peregrine Snape

¤ Vladimir Lev Snape

¤ Levi Damien Khemse

¤ Leonora Arabella Khemse

¤ Micah Oliver Khemse

¤ Lavi Dawn Weasley

¤ Ezra Calyx Weasley

¤ Desmond Perseus Weasley

¤ Narcissa Daphne Weasley

¤ George II Norman Weasley

¤ Mikhaila Larissa Weasley

¤ Mihael "Mello" Keehl

¤ Nate "Near" Rivers

¤ Mail "Matt" Jeevas

Octava Generación

#Familia Snape

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David Marchese, James Ellroy on his life in crime, his imaginary dog and the need to provoke, New York Times (August 19, 2019)

James Ellroy: I’ve had precious few moments, where I’ve said to myself: ‘Ellroy, you are the king. You’re the greatest crime writer that ever lived.’ The reflex kicks in . . .You’ve got more work to do.”

David Marchese: Almost all your books are set in the past,1 and I know that you’re intentionally disconnected from modern culture. Are you missing out on something important by not living more deeply in the times in which you live?

James Ellroy: I have a quotation here. [Ellroy removes a note from his shirt pocket.] This is the great pianist Glenn Gould on the great composer Richard Strauss. “The great thing about the music of Richard Strauss is that ... it presents to us an example of the man who makes richer his own time for not being of it, who speaks for all generations by being of none. It is an ultimate argument of individuality, an argument that a man can create his own synthesis of time without being bound by the conformities that time imposes.” That says it all.

David Marchese: O.K., I know you like to do shtick in public. Is that shtick2 about concealing anything?

James Ellroy: A lot of it is being the pit bull staked by chain to a spike in the front yard. I’ve been writing a book for a couple of years, and then they slip the chain off and I can run wild. But I realize part of it is a cover-up. My early life was horrible privation living with the unhousebroken dog and my dad3 telling me, “I [expletive] Rita Hayworth.” I passed that off as [expletive], and then 10 years after my dad died I saw a Hayworth biography in a bookstore and looked his name up in the index. It didn’t say he’d eh eh eh but it did say that he was her business manager between about 1948 and ’52.

David Marchese: Could any of your self-mythologizing stand to be deflated?

James Ellroy: The more I look at my own life, the more I realize that traumatic influences have played a part in it. I’m talking about my mother’s murder.4

David Marchese: Hasn’t your mother’s murder always been central?

James Ellroy: Yeah, it formed my mental curriculum. But there’s a particular aspect of my youth that has become distorted by repetition—like going to jail.5 It was not the big house. It was the jail of six-man cells and two stupid white guys, two stupid black guys and two stupid Mexican guys lying about their daring criminal exploits and their movie-star girlfriends. “Oh yeah? With Marilyn Monroe?” “Yeah, sure.” And also my breaking into houses6 and sniffing girls’ undergarments and stealing five-dollar bills. Technically it’s burglary, but it was craven. It was circumspect. It was very easy to do back then. People didn’t have answering machines. You rung up the phone, and if they didn’t answer they weren’t home. I did that 15, 16, 17 times over the course of two and a half years and got away with it.

David Marchese: You stopped around the time of the Manson family murders, right?

James Ellroy: Yes. That’s when people started having the security signs, “Patrolled by Bel Air Patrol.” So I quit doing it. I never stayed in the houses very long. Fifteen, 20 minutes. Maybe a half an hour. All together that was probably 10 hours of my life. But on a great many occasions I spent 12, 13 hours a day reading in public libraries. I wasn’t presenting information disingenuously, but looking back as an older, wiser person, I go, “I mostly just read a bunch of books.”

David Marchese: Are there any parallels between your state of mind when you were sneaking into people’s homes and your state of mind when inhabiting the life of a fictional character?

James Ellroy: Trespassing was about curiosity and yearning. It was for the girls at Hancock Park.7 Those girls live in me—Kathy, Julie, Peggy. I grew up a poor kid within a few blocks of this ritzy, WASP-y enclave. What I did required a certain concentration and was thrilling even though it was immoral. I was trying to sate my emotional hunger. For decades now, the only thing that has done that for me has been creating large-scale fictions set in the past.

David Marchese: Why do you pine for the past?

James Ellroy: There’s this old Stephen King quote. Someone asks Mr. King, “Why do you choose to write about such gruesome subjects?” He said, “Why do you assume that I have a choice?” Fate tapped me on the shoulder and said, “Hey, Ellroy. I got a job for you.”

David Marchese: My armchair-psychologist reading would be that you want to be back in the era in which your mother was still alive. And I have a hunch that your feelings about social probity and your conservatism are a reaction to the chaos of your adolescence.

James Ellroy: There’s a big element of truth to the latter. My feelings about probity are also about shame for my old disordered state and the crimes, albeit small, that I committed. As for my mother, Jean Hilliker, I’ve always marked historical events by whether she was alive for them. I’m always thinking about stuff like that.

David Marchese: In old interviews, you’ve described yourself as the kind of guy who spends his evenings brooding about the women in his life. Is that still the case?

James Ellroy: I brood like a dog. As far as my second ex-wife and once-again girlfriend, Helen Knode,8 and I go, monogamy was never the problem. It was cohabitation. So this is Helen’s idea—We have two pads. We’re in downtown Denver. I got a two-bedroom loft, and Helen has an identical one down the hall from me. I’ve got everything turned out exactly the way that I want it. Lots of pictures of bull terriers, pictures of my own book covers, the bust of Beethoven. I’ll sit at my desk and I’ll put my feet up and I’ll brood.

David Marchese: About what?

James Ellroy: About the new book, about this particular book tour. Mine is a big career, and people sometimes deny the solvency of the new books because they had a signature reading experience with a book way back. “The Black Dahlia,”9 that’ll be the only book for them. Or they conflate the movie “L.A. Confidential” with the novel “L.A. Confidential.”10

David Marchese: Are you only brooding on work?

James Ellroy: I’m very happy with Helen. I’m not brooding on Shirley Knight in “The Rain People,” which was a movie from 1969. Or Lois Nettleton on a couple episodes of “The Fugitive.”11

David Marchese: “The Fugitive” was such a weird show. There was always this implied sexual tension between Richard Kimble and whoever the lead actress was in a given episode, but nothing would ever happen.

James Ellroy: This is very, very interesting. “The Fugitive” exerted a deep pull on me. A romantic and sexual pull. Wherever Richard Kimble would go, the grooviest woman in the town — which somehow always looked like the San Fernando Valley — would gas onto him and they’d have their moment of truth and they may kiss a couple of times. But it was all unconsummated because he had to run from Lieutenant Gerard. The actresses on that show did a number on me. June Harding, Shirley Knight, Brenda Vaccaro, Diana van der Vlis, Suzanne Pleshette, Sandy Dennis. That’s the only time I’ve ever been obsessed with a TV show.

David Marchese: Aside from TV shows, what other products of the past do you miss?

James Ellroy: There was a stretch of Wilshire Boulevard in L.A. that had stores that sold wide arrays of perfectly fitting Shetland wool crew-neck sweaters, perfect saddle shoes, perfect tweed jackets and shawl-collar cashmere sweaters. You can’t find that stuff anymore. Nobody wants to dress that corny. You know, I also used to go [expletive] crazy buying women clothes. In ’07, I was on the loose in L.A. during the time of my divorce and I had a wingding with a woman. In the couple of months this wingding went on, I bought her $20,000 worth of clothes.

David Marchese: And then it ended?

James Ellroy: Yeah. She kept the clothes, which is O.K. Hey, I try.

David Marchese: I feel like maybe you romanticize women in a weird way. Where does that tendency come from?

James Ellroy: One day she was there, Jean Hilliker, and then one day she wasn’t. She died horribly. She’s been through a thousand metamorphoses with me. I finally realized that in the two memoirs I wrote that are very much about her that I didn’t get to the heart of her. It was because my gift is fiction. I’m not a journalist or a memoirist. Hence, Joan Conville12.

David Marchese: Trying to get to the heart of a person who died when you were 10 is like trying to catch smoke.

James Ellroy: Yeah, you can’t. I’ve overdramatized my mother. I’ve underdramatized her. Helen has told me a trillion times, “Leave your mother alone. Let her rest in peace.” I’ve honored her in fiction. I tried to get to the core of her in a dramatized fashion. I co-opted the exterior facts of her life. I don’t know if there’ll be a moment of peace with that.

David Marchese: When you say that your mother has been through a thousand metamorphoses, does that extend to your feelings about real-life as well as fictional women?

James Ellroy: I’m a sucker for a tall redhead. That’s for damn sure. I think that I’ve never gotten over sex.

David Marchese: What’s that mean?

James Ellroy: Just the whole thing. O.K., here’s a joke I first heard in the early ’60s. It’s a howler—“I want to find the guy who invented sex and ask him what he’s working on now.” Sex is a head scratcher. It remains prevalent. I was sitting with Andrew Wylie, my agent, in Columbus Circle a couple of days ago so he could smoke a cigar on his way back to the office. We were sitting there, talking a little, looking around a little, and I said, “There sure are a lot of healthy-looking young women in New York City today.” He said, “I don’t have to tell you, do I?”

David Marchese: In the past when journalists have asked you about your conservative politics, you sometimes give confrontational answers. Were those authentic reflections of your thinking or an expression of your urge to needle? I’m thinking about stuff you said about Obama.

James Ellroy: I don’t even remember what I said about Obama.

David Marchese: The word “hate” came up.

James Ellroy: I voted for him! But what did I say? That I hate him or something like that?13 I think it was a British journalist who I said that to. We were sitting in a hamburger joint in L.A., and he was pissing me off. He was hassling me about Obama, and I was like, what do you want me to say?

David Marchese: It does seem as if you’re often asked to justify your politics in ways that wouldn’t be expected of liberals. Why is your conservatism treated as something requiring explanation?

James Ellroy: Being conservative is considered by many people as a codified expression of—You’re not nice, you’re unenlightened, you’re not one of the gang, you’re not one of the humanists. It should be evident in “Perfidia”14 and “This Storm” that I despise totalitarianism. I write characters who are the good guys and who also occasionally drop the racial slur, the anti-homosexual remark, but with these characters racial animus is never a defining characteristic. It’s a casual attribute. I like the idea of race as anecdote. I live by anecdote. I live to the exclusion of epigram. Those who think that all people who would express racial animus do that because of a deep-seated hatred boiling within them don’t understand that at a certain time and place it was the common linguistic coin of the realm.

David Marchese: I understand that people have a tendency to define conservatism in narrow political ways, but what does it mean to you?

James Ellroy: I have always described myself as a Tory. Underneath my profane exterior, I’m very concerned with decorum, with probity, with morality, and I have a painfully developed conscience. I despise unconscionable acts, whoever is perpetrating them. Helen says that what I am more than anything else is a Protestant. That’s what it is.

David Marchese: Can you tell me what you meant when you said you live by anecdote and to the exclusion of epigram? Am I wrong in thinking that anecdotes and epigrams aren’t terribly dissimilar?

James Ellroy: We were talking about race. In my books, I deploy racial anecdote, unmediated by any kind of preaching, any kind of philosophy. For example, two months before the first Watts riot, I had adventures in South Central Los Angeles, repossessing cars, going around with an unscrupulous fellow, looking for street hookers. I had heard a rumor that if you want to get a girl, you go to Cooper Do-nuts on Western Avenue and Adams Boulevard. You talk to one of the counter guys there and he’ll always know somebody who will drive you around. Well, I did this. I was 17. 1965. The girls had themselves a couple of white tricks, that’s for damn sure. We had all kinds of adventures, driving around to one pad after another and shooting the [expletive] with all these black folk. It was a rollicking good time. So, I live in anecdotes like that. I see something, it makes human sense to me, and I’m on it like a pit bull.

David Marchese: Do you feel any internal friction between your conservatism and, for example, your obvious relish in the content of the anecdote you just described?

James Ellroy: There’s the old F. Scott Fitzgerald line.

David Marchese: About how the test of first-rate intelligence is someone who can hold two opposing ideas in his mind?

James Ellroy: Absolutely. It’s an old saw, and that’s me. Mine is a Christian ideal that expresses of the presence of God and the presence of sin. It’s that kind of duality. It’s banal in my case, and in my expression, in my every way of life. But you can only do the do-right so much before you’re going to have some reaction against it.

David Marchese: Critics have called your books nihilistic. But to my mind it’d be more accurate to argue that the characters in your books care too much. Does that make sense?

James Ellroy: You’re absolutely right, and nihilism is a maddening criticism to hear. Optimism is best expressed in “This Storm” by the two words “people change.” They do. Elmer Jackson enters “This Storm” as a good-natured, horny rube who has the common good sense to hate the Klan, because of their high jinks in his North Carolina hometown. He’s chastened by the events of the book, and he changes. The character of Hideo Ashida changes. Dudley Smith changes. William H. Parker changes. If people as hard-core and as driven by the animus of the times as these folks can change, that’s optimistic.

David Marchese: Reading “This Storm,” which is so much about American Naziism and racial paranoia, it’s hard not to think of the resonances between the time in which the book is set, 1942, and today. Were you thinking about those resonances as you were writing?

James Ellroy: People have asked, “Isn’t this novel with all the whacked-out right-wingers and left-wingers and anti-Semites and nativists and race hucksters really about America today?” I said, “Nah. It’s about America in 1942.” Nothing stands in for anything else. If I wanted to write a novel about America today I would damn well do it. I don’t think much about what’s happening today.

David Marchese: Do you read anything contemporary? Or is it mostly old crime stories?

James Ellroy: I’ve read Daniel Silva15 because a colleague at Knopf said, “You might like this guy.” And that’s that. I’ve read through a lot of anthologies of Library of America; American noir of the ’30s, ’40s, and ’50s and American noir written by women, the two volumes edited by Sarah Weinman. I’ve been going at that like a pit bull.

David Marchese: Speaking of dogs, tell me about your current bull terrier.16

James Ellroy: Helen and I have an imaginary bull terrier named Ingrid. We have a great deal of fun anthropomorphizing bull terriers. Ingrid is a reddish-brown and white bull terrier and also a psychopathic cop who’s immortal. Her first enforcement gig was with the pharoahs when they were whipping the Israelis into slavery. Ingrid’s also very badly alcoholic.

David Marchese: That’s too bad.

James Ellroy: Yeah, but she’s immortal. Wherever Helen and I live, Ingrid joins the Police Department and goes on the robbery squad. Ingrid does what a great many people would like to do. She phone-books suspects and shoots ’em in the back. The anthropomorphizing is all in good humor. There’s no explicitness. Ingrid’s idea of a man is the sodden, overweight, alcoholic police officers she’s seen in cop movies. Her favorite film noir actor is pudgy and corrupt Edmond O’Brien.17 We never get into the mechanics of a human man and a dog doing it or anything like that because Helen and I are very wholesome at our cores. I love dogs insanely. Though I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been bitten.

#greats #james ellroy #literature #crime fiction #enigmas #tragedy #interviews #eccentrics

[dianaraven]

Tbh i do not like or agree with many things that Hookstraten believes but i trust her with my life

#designated survivor #diana rambles #kimble hookstraten

[aviationfiction]

XXXIII

Autumn Dupont

Have you ever had someone continuously make your dreams come true, whether big or small?

I don’t pride myself on being a superficial or materialistic girl, especially on someone else’s dime or time, and yet as I sit here basking in this moment, I find myself ogling over the man responsible for making it happen rather than all that is happening around me. Despite the amazing Kim Kimble’s fingers being intertwined with my hair as she pulls it into a specific lowered bun that she assured me I’d look stunning in or the powder brush of celebrity make up artist Keita Moore being stroked over my face, my eyes continued to pan back and forth in an effort to follow Dante’s every move around his apartment even though it was more than obvious that he was doing his best to stay out the way of this entire glam situation happening in the middle of his living room. Though neither one of us showcased natural excitement about this renowned event due to bad nerves and his personal disdain towards those who share his last name, his interest in making sure the preparations for myself were precise took precedence over anything else that was supposed to be planned for this evening. Stacey placed herself in charge of putting together this costly glam squad though I protested against it and of course, he financed it without a single question asked or a concern about the possibility of her going overboard with all of it. If it were up to me, I would have gone to my usual hairstylist in Brooklyn and sat in front of the mirror in his bathroom applying my own make up. She used an excuse of supporting black business by hiring Kim and Keita but I’m a million percent sure their actual celebrity clientele needs their presence far more than I do. Though discomfort filled my core at their acknowledgement of who I am, I’m still a nobody and I damn sure don’t want to be known for who I used to be involved with. The less people who knows about and associates me with that, the better.

“You’re nervous. Why?” She’d been watching my hand and the fist I kept it clench into, to control the faint tremor. As her body relaxed on the couch with her lean legs daintily crossed at the ankles, I glanced at my mother as she calmly flipped through a Harper’s Bazaar magazine while awaiting the hair and make up process to be over. She arrived to Dante’s apartment just as it all began and offered just a bit of her motherly input as she looked on in anticipation of seeing me in the gown I chose for the evening. She refused to miss this though I continued to assure her that it’s not that big of a deal. As soon as the words Zac Posen spilled from my lips, she urgently asked for Dante’s address and gave me a specific time for her arrival. Her prompt nature didn’t fail to meet the time.

“I’m going to walk into a room full of people who I don’t know and that type of thing always makes me nervous. I’m a creature of habit often time, so I wouldn’t necessarily call myself a social butterfly. It’s why I don’t have too many friends in the first place.”

“Oh I know that, but you’ve also never been the type of person to allow that to hold you back from anything. Don’t let it start now. Sure, you’ll be in a room full of people you aren’t familiar with, but you know who you are and that’s the most important aspect of tonight and any other night when you’re in the midst of situations like this. Additionally, you’ll be with the man you love. Sounds like a great time to me either way.” She can make the toughest obstacle challenge sound like the most facile victory if you listen to her long enough. Her confidence has always bordered on being admirable and unbelievable for me. In the midst of my efforts to tuck myself in some corner to be unnoticed and most of all, unbothered, I’d watch her stand in one spot and have damn near a room full of people gravitate towards her in the snap of a finger. Her presence is prominent and yet it never overpowers my father whether he’s near or far. She’s a leader within her own right and yet she still allows him to be lead in just about everything. In all of the years I lived under their roof, I’ve never once heard or witnessed an argument in reference to a power struggle between the two. If anything, they occasionally bickered about which one of them were being too soft on Isaac, Shane, and myself when we tested their limits.

“I plan to have a good time. I always have an amazing time when I’m out with him.”

“Good. That’s what I want to hear. Everything went well at the doctors yesterday?”

“Yes. All is well.” Typically, I never enjoy doctor’s visits, even if they’re just routine checkups. The anxiety of bad news eats at me like a flesh eating disease and I wallow in pessimism the entire time. That particular timeframe, my anxiety had absolutely nothing to do with the doctors visit and the usual pelvic examination. My relief also didn’t come after I stepped out of the doors and hopped back inside of Glen’s truck. A negative result in a routine pregnancy test ceased the sweat nipping at my forehead and the butterflies tormenting my belly. In a confusing slip up, I missed my appointment to renew my birth control and a few days of an upset stomach and one morning of vomiting took a toll on my mental space far more than it did on my exhausted body. To soothe my panicking, I summed up my bellyaches to the everyday greed for Thanksgiving leftovers. Black people don’t put a limit on how many days those leftovers are to be eaten. We’ll not only eat it until it’s gone, but we also have a tendency to take whatever is left and create new dishes out of them. I certainly did. After a few days of doing that, I began to have an uneasiness and nausea that I could not shake and finally, coming across the reality of that missed confirmation phone call and appointment, I felt like I wanted to combust. I’ve wondered about motherhood many times, but not as much as I did within those few days. Despite the many conversations we’ve had about kids, the thought of a baby ignited a bit of fear within me because not only do I not have my shit together just yet, but I don’t know what kind of a mother I’ll be. And Dante? Dear God. Given his indifference with his family and the journey he’s getting ready to embark on to exit his position at A&M for a move to the West Coast, I can only imagine how bewildered he would have been if I were to blurt out that I have a gut full of human in the midst of all of it. I don’t think he’s in a place to deal with the pressure he already has weighing on his shoulders, in addition to all that comes with me and finally, a baby. I was relieved when that usual negative result casually slipped out in the nurses run down of my vitals. After we’ve jumped the broom, settled in Malibu, and I’ve finally figured out just what the hell I’m going to do with myself, is when I’ll be comfortable with that test result being the opposite.

“How does that feel? Too tight?” Kim stuck yet another pin into my hair and though it slightly grazed my scalp, the tightness of the bun and the way she chose to pin pieces of it hadn’t reached uncomfortable levels just yet. Anything more than this and I’ll be snatching it out before we even leave the venue tonight.

“It’s feels fine. Do you have to put any more pins in it?”

“Nope. That was the last one I needed. I’m just going to do a bit of holding spray and you’re good to go gorgeous.”

“Thank you.”

“Lauren really wanted to be here, but she’s experiencing that first trimester exhaustion. She just messaged me to remind me to take a ton of photos. Your father sends his love. He’s still in D.C. and feeling crappy because he’s going to miss this moment.”

“It’s a gala. It’s not the prom. You two can be so dramatic sometimes.”

“If it’s up to me, I wouldn’t miss anything that you do, my child.” She flipped yet another page of the magazine and finally came across the Gwyneth Paltrow cover story and just like I suspected, she flipped right on past it. If the magazine were in my hand, I too, would have done the same thing.

“I flip through a lot of these magazines and every once in a while I look at red carpet events because I enjoy great fashion moments, but I must say I don’t think I’ve ever seen any celebrity wife or wife period with a ring as gorgeous as yours.” While stretching my fingers out, my engagement ring came into view. I still stare at it like the rarity that it is. I’ve never seen anything quite like it myself and knowing that he designed every single detail about it makes it all the more special. It’s magnitude is a bonus that makes me bashful and nervous because it’s an attention grabber. I wore it to therapy and it became all that everyone could talk about in the waiting room, from the receptionist to the two awaiting patients and Dr. Jill? I believe we spent more than a half an hour of the session just gushing over it and the details of the proposal. All that’s left for me to do is to get over my fear of wearing it around the company. Before I do that, I have to get over my fear of everyone actually knowing about he and I. Privacy has been beneficial to everything that we’ve built thus far and I’m not sure what we’re going to face if we step outside of the bubble that we’ve been blissfully living in.

“Mom, please.” She has two sets of rings, the originals and the new set given to her on their last wedding anniversary, that are gorgeous and so sentimental in meaning. Dad look her love of Princess Diana and the Titanic film into consideration when heading to Tiffany’s and purchasing a 5.4 carat princess cut diamond ring and it’s matching eternity band. The centered diamond is set between two rich and velvety sapphire stones which makes it a stand out. He presented it to her at the restaurant they had their first date in.

“It is beautiful girl. I can’t even front, it’s all I’ve been looking at while doing your hair.” Kim’s admission turned a snicker into full on laughter because I noticed it as soon as she arrived and began to pull products out of her kit. At least she’s not ashamed to admit it.

“Thank you.”

“Baby, which ones?” Dante’s sock clad feet swiftly marched in my direction and he held up two pairs of shoes in my line of view for my judgement. The ombre effect of black fading into blue and the brogueing details on the shoe in his left hand instantly caught my attention. I was already thrilled with him taking my advice and going with a midnight blue tuxedo instead of the traditional black one, so of course the shoes drew me in just as much. Even the golden double buckles looked good. In the right hand was the traditional patent leather, Oxford style, evening lace up shoe that you see all over the Oscar red carpet when some famous actor is walking down in Tom’s designs. It’s clean, straight to the point, and yet complimentary to the entire look. Though the blue shoes were stronger in appeal, I couldn’t deny the sophistication of the other pair. They’re the superior choice for tonight.

“Do the patent leather oxfords. They’re traditional and sleek. They’ll be perfect.” I’m not even sure what else could be done to make him look any more perfect than he already does. With his bow tie loosely hanging over his neck, his shirt untucked from his pants, and two pair of shoes in his hands, he’s still undoubtedly is the sexiest man I’ve ever encountered. If my mother weren’t sitting on the couch and I didn’t have my two person glam team standing in front and behind me, I absolutely would have blurted out a few of the vulgar thoughts crossing my mind. This man in a suit is my kryptonite and he wears them more often than he wears anything else, so I am constantly going through phases of feeling tempted and aroused daily. Occasionally, I’m damn near embarrassed at how much I always want him.

“I agree. They’re refined.” As my mother chimed in, he nodded to signify that he heard both suggestions.

“Thank you.”

As quickly as he appeared is as quickly as he disappeared back into the guest room. In yet another selfless act, he chose to use the guest room as the space to ready himself just in case I needed the bedroom and I probably will. That’s where the gown and shoes are.

“Nude lip tonight?”

“Yeah, the gown is the statement. No need for anything bold.” Besides that, it’s typically my go to whenever I’m putting something on my lips.

“You know, this year, I am struggling to figure out what to get you for Christmas. For the past couple of years you’ve been home more, so I’ve been able to eavesdrop on a few conversations to figure out a few ideas for what you may want, but it seems like this year, it’s going to be a struggle.”

“I don’t really have anything that I particularly want. I’ve already gotten two gifts for you though.” I smirked in satisfaction knowing that I may end up being the gift queen this year. She has and will always love vintage Chanel bags, so I scored two that I know she’ll be gasping over in surprise and clutching her chest in love for. One in particular cost me over thirteen thousand dollars and is coming all the way from Japan. Though I nearly choked at the price tag, I didn’t hesitate to purchase it for her. She’s beyond worth it and that doesn’t even touch the surface of all that I owe her.

“Have you? Well look who isn’t last minute shopping this year.” After closing the magazine, she placed it down on her lap. “I was in Saks the other day and I saw the cutest Gucci diaper bags. I think I’m going to grab two of them as gifts for Lauren because I just can’t wait until the baby shower to start shopping. I’m too excited. We’re finally going to have a baby in the family.” Her excitement has been relentless since the announcement as I expected it to be and it will eventually reach a point of overkill and I suppose that’s understandable to. Being a grandmother is something she’s been looking forward to since we were children. Unlike other mothers who do their best to hold onto their younger days, she has no “glam-ma” or “GiGi” rule. She intends to be a good ol’ grandmother who has her grandchildren running around her house all summer long while they’re being spoiled rotten by both she and my father. I can also sense the pride she feels in the timing of this baby given that Isaac is in a much better place and will actually handle fatherhood in a manner that’ll make her proud. He did things the right way and that’s something to be applauded. I’m just as proud of him as they are. Not only do he and Lauren deserve this, but so does my parents. A new life to ease out some of the pain from the loss of one is a blessing to be celebrated. Eventually, brother and sister-in-law will have half of a football roster worth of them for our parents to love all over.

“I think she’ll like that.”

I’ll never forget coming across this Zac Posen gown while skimming through the runway section of Vogue’s website to view all of the New York Fashion Week collections. Naomi Campbell, in all of her goddess nature, came sauntering down the runway and left me completely breathless as the dim lighting in the Vanderbilt Hall in Grand Central Terminal cascaded over the glittering taffeta gown. It instantly became a social media viral moment and I fantasized about myself in that gown for months. I’d even gone as far as using the gown as inspiration for my own ideas and sketches. Never in a million years plus a million more would I ever think that I’d be standing in my now fiancé’s bedroom with my mother zipping up the exact gown onto my frame. I have to give credit to Stacey for reaching out to the fashion house and making the connection. I’m quite sure that Dante’s name was the clout needed for them to agree to it, but it’s happening and I’m beyond grateful. I may not have a terrible step-mother and ugly step-sisters but I do have a prince charming, so this is somewhat of a Cinderella moment for me.

“How do you feel in it?” Her question nearly went into one ear and right out of the other as I slowly ran my hands over the material. A blissful sigh eased past my lips as the reality of the moment sunk in.

“Good. So good.” I only had one fitting for it and I could barely contain my excitement as Zac himself put a few pins in the upper bodice to mark the points for alterations. He had to take it in just a bit so it’d clasp my bosom slightly more than it did. If you ask me, it was perfect then…but it’s damn sure perfect now.

“You look absolutely stunning sweetheart.” Rather than allowing me to turn in a circle for her, she circled me with a smile of pride and gleam within her watering eyes. Her hand met the skin of my arm in a gentle touch and with a nod of her head, her approval was sealed. “Just perfect.”

“Thanks mom.”

“The belle of the ball.”

“I’m sure there are going to be plenty of belles of the ball tonight. Lets not get cocky here.” I’m expecting the matriarch of the St. James Family to stop the show in only a manner that both she and her husband know how to. How could she not?

“You’re my child. I’ll be as arrogant as I want to be. Now let me get a picture for your dad.”

What she called a picture, felt like hundreds that Dante eventually became apart of. We had no time to compliment one another or to even speak about what tonight’s festivities may hold for the both of us because of the domineering Lillian Dupont. The best photos were taken in the lobby of the condominium. The lavish decor served as the perfect background for my mother, who had suddenly morphed into Cecil Beaton while we served as the royalty in front of her lens. Marvin’s SUV was our awaiting carriage and she saw us off with words of encouragement to have a good time and a joy filled wave as she stood on the Manhattan curb.

The humans zipping along the sidewalks and jay walking into traffic along with the ubiquitous skyscrapers captured my attention in the same essence that it always does. The juxtaposition of affluence and poverty wasn’t as obvious tonight as it is when you’re walking down the streets of congested Times Square. The looming question of where I fit in amongst all of this isn’t tormenting my mind like it has been since the death of my brother. Despite my nervousness, I can sense the peace in being here within this moment without my brother and yet with Dante. This city continues to give me love.

“Baby.”

“Hm?” A hitched breath left me faintly pulling for my oxygen as I took in his sight. There is no one feature that makes him so handsome. I can mention his soft lips and their perfect rosy hue that I can kiss until we’re experiencing numbness. Maybe it’s structure of his jaw and the way it immaculately curves to form the symmetry of his face. Maybe it’s the curve of his smile and the way it melts my soul and makes me fall deeper in love. His eyes. Dear God, the eyes.  From them comes an intensity that leaves me breathless, an honesty that has yet to fail me, and a vulnerability that embraces and showers me with adoration, and lastly a strength that rids me of my deepest fears. I still stop in my tracks at the sight of him. I still shrink and blush when his gaze washes over me. He is the embodiment of secure masculinity that leaves me on an endless high. Tonight is all of that times a million. I can barely contain myself.

“You look like a dream.” No, that’s you Dante. It’s you.

“So do you.”

“No, really. I can’t even put it into words. Perfection isn’t even a good enough word. Shit. I….” His dark chocolate eyes widened as his tongue became tied in his mental search for the perfect adjective. If I wasn’t already blushing before, he’s certainly drawn it out of me now.

“Thank you. You amazing yourself. I’m always obsessed with you in a suit, but in a tux? It makes me want to give you a couple of babies.”

“So you’re saying that I should wear these everyday then?” Even Marvin had to laugh at his response. I knew it was coming. If he wears a tux everyday, I’ll be like those women who are walking around pushing a double stroller with a toddler walking along side it, twin babies inside of it, and a very pregnant belly peaking out from behind it. I don’t even think the Malibu home would be big enough to house a family of that magnitude.

“Look at you starting early. Are you excited about tonight?” I had to ask because he hasn’t said much about it beyond the occasional responses here and there to my general questions.

“I’m excited that you’re with me.”

“But you aren’t excited about the event itself?”

“It’s a gala with a bunch of wealthy people and A&M employees, drinking, dancing, mingling and flexing their checkbooks with donations. I can’t really pinpoint what the exciting part is suppose to be. I usually just sit at a table and count the hours until it’s over. Occasionally, Stacey will make me get out of my seat and dance with her. Fredrick came last year, but he’s having a get away weekend with Erica.”

“And Mike?”

“He’s down in North Carolina for his grandmother’s birthday party. He’ll be back in a day or two. We’re going to meet up to play ball as soon as they get back to the city.”

“Will you save a dance for me tonight?” The question was a tease and his smirk told me that he knew it. “I don’t think Stacey will mind.”

“I’ll absolutely save you a dance.”

“More importantly, I don’t want you to stress tonight. I care about that far more than a dance. I’ve noticed how much you tense up whenever you’re in a room with your parents and brother. I’m sure that reaction is beyond your control at this point but still, even if it’s just for tonight, try and have some kind of fun. Don’t worry about them or anything that can possibly be said or done to take you into a negative space. No matter what, everything’s going to be alright. I won’t make you promise me because I know what it’s like when someone is testing your cool and shit does happen, but I just want you to know that either way I’m going to be by your side whether we’re having a blast or whooping ass.” In the midst of our laughter, I knew my words couldn’t be truer. We’re not on a wild ride like Bonnie and Clyde, but I’ll still step up to whatever challenge with him if necessary because I know at any given moment he’ll either do the same for me or move me to the side and take it all on by himself.

“I’m down with that. No stress. No fighting because you look too gorgeous for all of that. We’re going to go, enjoy it as best as we can, and go about our business.” He’s right about the fighting part. Though I’m willing to defend his honor if necessary, I’d rather not do so with a hundred million dollars worth of borrowed Harry Winston jewelry on my body. My eyes nearly bulged out of my head and fell onto the floor as Dante opened up the jewelry boxes and insisted that they were perfect for the tonight’s festivities and the gown I’d be wearing. He specifically chose pieces from the jewelry house’s iconic collection of cluster diamonds. Around my neck is over a hundred and thirty carats of marquise and pear shaped diamonds. On my wrist is eighty carats of marquise and pear shaped diamonds. My ears? Thirteen carats. Thankfully, they’re not as dramatic in weight because they certainly would have ripped through my holes if they were any heavier. If I lose any one of these pieces, it might as well be considered purchased. Lord only knows why he’s trusting me to walk around with that much of his money at stake as a fashion statement.

“Sounds like a plan to me Suga.” As soon as he leaned in for a kiss, I quickly turned my head so he could catch my cheek.

“Did you just swerve me?”

“I can’t have you messing up my lipstick this early, come on now.”

“The early part of your response means that I have permission to mess it up later and I’m holding you to that.”

“St. James, please.”

“Soon to be St. James, I’m holding you to that.” My future last name rolling off of his tongue sent a faint chill down my spine as I turned to glance at the side of his face. All thoughts to preserve my lipstick went out of the window as I pressed my lips into his cheek. I’ll always be the float like the wind, slightly reserved, nurturing, and hopeless romantic Dupont but I’m looking forward to my journey as a St. James.

The last time I attended a corporate event, it was a birthday party thrown from Andreas in Miami by Micky Arison and Pat Riley. The reason why I label it corporate is because I had absolutely nothing to do with it and for the most part, I didn’t know a single person on the guest list aside from a handful of the player’s wives. Just about all of the attendees were involved in either playing the sport or being a central piece behind the scenes of it. It was on the rooftop of Miami’s 1 Hotel South Beach and much like damn near every outdoor party in Miami, it was an all white affair. I wore Versace from head to toe that night. We both did. All it was flown in literally the day of and made it just in time for a fitting and a slight alteration to the upper strap of my dress. Though I was in no mood for it, I had a role to play and the most important part of it is looking the part. If I did nothing else right, I’d like to think that’s the one area that I upheld myself in even if I didn’t internally feel like what people complimented me for when referencing to the external.

We argued inside of his Ferrari the entire drive to the event. That was a routine for us whenever we were within an enclosed space with no where else to go for an extended period of time. My boisterous pleas were all about being seen and heard by him while his were ones of dismissal and disdain at my neediness. The same man who once told me that I didn’t need to worry about anything and to allow him to take care of me, condescendingly told me that I needed to find an occupation so that I wouldn’t take my self induced misery out on him. When we arrived to the party, though we walked in hand in hand, we were only along side one another for twenty minutes or less. He glued Amber to his side and I glued myself to a seat at the bar, where I threw back shots of my favorite tequila and looked on at an interaction that I knew was more than just friendship. She’d been screwing him long before that party and I knew it. That evening they didn’t seem to have a problem with everyone else figuring it out as well. A rage that I hadn’t felt before set in as I looked on and reality set in about the unraveling of our marriage. When we arrived home in the wee hours of the morning, I took a bat and smashed the windshield of the same Ferrari we left in. I suppose his guilt stopped him from having me arrested for vandalizing his property.

“Wow.”

Though he nor Stacey mentioned anything about a specific theme, the Prohibition era or rather the Roaring 20s, was intertwined with the event’s decor. Much like Gatsby, the glitz and glamour of the high society was on full display with it’s black and white color scheme and golden and silvery metallics to further accentuate it. Swinging from the chandeliers were women dressed as flappers in their art deco style dresses with feathered and jeweled hair pieces and headbands that I’d love to add to my accessories collection. The bespoke floral arrangements of white Avalanche roses and Lilies softened the darkened atmosphere and towering centerpieces placed on every table dripped Swarovski crystals down their frames and glimmered in the dim lighting. Given the time of the year, I expected to see something along the lines of a winter wonderland but I suppose this makes sense. It actually makes a ton of sense.

“Yeah, I know. Beautiful event thrown by shitty people.”

We skipped the red carpet. It took up the entire block and was rolled out for the attendance of their celebrity clientele and anyone else who was bold enough to walk it. The discussion and decision between he and I was a swift one once we were within five minutes of arriving. Though he had no concern or fear of trekking down it’s red surface with me along side him, I deemed it to be unnecessary. No matter how much he’s trying to mask it, he’s already uneasy about being here and the flashes of those cameras may have taken him over the edge.

“How much does something like this cost to throw?”

“Millions. Anywhere between two and five.” The aloof response was followed by him drawing me closer to the side of his body while we maneuvered past all of the gazing eyes. I’m a stranger amongst this crowd and it is more than obvious by the glances and whispers.

“There you two are. I’ve been waiting at this bar for about forty five minutes. I didn’t want to sit down without you.” Stacey stood before us looking absolutely stunning, just as I expected her to. She has such a timeless and ageless beauty about her that enhances day by day, and then there’s her warming and playful smile that immediately lights up a room when she walks into it. I’m all for a woman taking her time when it comes to snapping back after childbirth. It’s what they deserve after nine long months of nesting a child and then going through the beautiful yet taxing experience of childbirth. Stacey? If I didn’t already know she had a baby, I wouldn’t have been able to guess it. There isn’t anything out of place or shape. And tonight? She’s outshining everyone in the room in her deep teal Zuhair Murad gown.

“Autumn, oh my God.” In the same manner as she had done in Dante’s office the first time we met, her eyes bulged out of her head and she grabbed both of her hips as she playfully ogled over my attire for the evening. I too, was doing the same thing to her. With the way her body looks in that gown, I need to get back on my running schedule to get these extra ten pounds of relationship weight off of me.

“No. I should be the one saying that. You look amazing.”

“Girl. You literally look like a black holiday Barbie. My mother started collecting them for me ever since I was a little girl and I’ve kept the tradition going because I plan to give them all to my daughter. That’s what you are serving tonight. This gala hasn’t had a moment like this ever before and you know I don’t lie. These white women waltzing around here barely know how to put on some damn color. Wow.” I could only wrap her up into my arms for a tight hug. There’s something extremely beautiful about women celebrating one another and whenever I have a moment like that I enjoy it. Our compliments for one another have a tendency to be far more important and uplifting than anything a man can tell us and I wish more women would understand that. We’re at our best and strongest point when we’re standing together and behind one another.

“You look dapper too Tae.” As her arm slapped into his shoulders, he drew her in for his own hug.

“You look incredible Stace. The traffic made us slightly late, but as far as I’m concerned we aren’t late enough.”

“Oh, I know.” The knowing look they gave one another left me in the dark. “At least the checkbooks are already out. The more we see those, the quicker all of this dwindles down. Rich folks, alcohol, and money. It’s always bullshit in the making. I moved your seat by the way. It took a lot of sneaky shit to get it done, but I did.”

“Same table as you?”

“Yeah, same table.”

I thought he’d avoid speaking with people at all costs, but he opted not to and held a number of short conversations after being sure to properly introduce me with the proper title. The difference between he and I and the men walking around with their wives on their arms is respect and partnership. There’s this stench of fragile masculinity and sexism suffocating the place and every single time I catch a glimpse of it, my stomach turns. Out of the multiple conversations that he’s had with fellow co-workers and a few clients, only two men properly introduced their wives to him and allowed him to shake their hands. Then there are the disrespectful lust filled glares that their wives are deliberately ignoring for the sake of keeping their status and being kept. Most of all, I can only reflect back on the harsh reality that I used to be in the same exact place and predicament that they’re in. How can I judge?

“I’ve been awaiting my turn to embrace my son and my future daughter-in-law.” Elizabeth’s soft voice filled my ears from behind us. A small sigh of anxiety escaped my lips as my eyes flickered towards Dante and silence loomed between us. Despite what I requested of him on Thanksgiving Eve, I know it won’t be easy for him to bite his tongue, mask those pain filled emotions, and to began to work towards that healed and healthy relationship that she is pleading for when it comes to him. I can see it in his eyes and the manner in which they darken and narrow whenever she’s near. I can feel it in his tensed arm and the way it’s firmly locked around my waist as if she has the capability to do me any harm. Despite how I’m soothingly running my arm across his back, it’s not helping him.

“Autumn, you look absolutely stunning.” Her open arms lingered longer than they were supposed to due to his grip. A reassuring brush of my hand over his was what allowed an embrace with my future mother-in-law to happen. The aroma of her floral perfume filled my nose as she placed a soft kiss on my cheek. The mistiness in her eyes is what took the short moment from nice to confusing. “I just want to say congratulations and welcome to the family.”

I’m not even sure I can explain to Dante the guilt that filled my thoughts as I listened to her speak. He may look at me like I have the heads of Medusa or laugh it off and call me soft for falling for what he describes as pure antics for the sake of manipulation. I’m sure that’s a moment that she not only would have wanted to share with her son before hand, but of course she wanted to be there to witness him make such a momentous step within his manhood. Do I apologize? Do I explain? There’s not only an elephant in the room, but the entire damn zoo has shown up.

“Thank you Elizabeth.” I’d like to think that’s fair enough, right?

“Congratulations to you as well son. I’m proud of you.” I didn’t necessarily intend to visually scold him but it was instinctive. Had I not done it, he would have avoided that hug and nonchalantly nodded his head at her words meanwhile keeping his eyes locked on me, as if I actually matter in this brief heart to heart moment between mother and son.

“It’s good to see you, mom.”

“My God, you look just like your grandfather as you stand there in that tuxedo. You resemble him so much that it’s scary. Autumn, I have to show you pictures one day. He’s my dad through and though. He gets his mannerisms from his father. Their strength is identical. He loves hard, like me.”

“I believe it. From the moment we shook hands, I could pick up on certain qualities that he’s inherited from his dad.” The dominance and the way an entire room falls at their mercy is identical. It feels more hereditary than taught.

“I don’t see it.” Of course he’d disagree.

“I know you don’t. You’ve always felt like you are your own man and I cannot argue with that, despite what I do see of your father and grandfather within you. Your unique qualities shine bright.” The compliment went right over his head. His stoic facial expression never once shifted or even forced somewhat of a smirk. If anything, the panning of his eyes wreaked of impatience and pending dismissal.

“So a wedding date. Is there one set? I’d love to help out.”

“No. Not yet.” His lie flew out quicker than the truth could from my end.

“Well when there is, please don’t hesitate to call. Also, Autumn, I’d love to have your family over for dinner whenever you’re ready. If you’d rather us come and join them for dinner, I’m more than willing to do that as well. I figure it’d be nice to get to know them before everything takes place.”

“Of course. We’ll set something up. I’m sure my mom would love that, actually.” And she would. She’s a people person, but I fear her intuitive nature will be able to pick up on what Dante despises about them and then her fears will set in about how much of that will be inflicted upon me. If she didn’t have class and a reputation to protect, she would have already lunged at Joanne, so the last thing that I need is her being on the edge over some slick remark coming from the St. James men. She’d have their heads before my father or brother could.

“Good. I’m looking forward to it.” The fur stole wrapped around her upper frame complimented her twinkling brown eyes as they washed over her son’s dapper appearance in pride. Despite how he may feel about her, he’s a prize in her eyes and I can see it whenever she looks at him. Why wouldn’t he be? He’s the son that came from her womb and he’s done more than enough to make anyone who knows him proud. “Tony Bennett’s performing tonight. Save me a dance tonight if you can son.”

She didn’t bother to wait for his response and it may have been the most intelligent decision she’s made since addressing him this evening. She wouldn’t have gotten one.

“Dante.”

“I’m trying. I promise, I am.”

“Try a little bit harder, my love.”

“Then I’d be forcing it.”

“Please don’t have us get married without her being there. I am pleading this, genuinely. Please.” He allowed that to linger as he guided me to and helped me into my seat. Even as he sat down along side me and took in the ambiance, I didn’t receive an answer. There manner in which his eyes, which were once inseparable from me, were avoiding me said it all.

“Dante.”

“Okay. Whatever you want, baby.” He half ass meant it. His eyes were locked on the stage as this evening’s host, Mark Cuban, owner of the Dallas Mavericks, took the stage and began an onslaught of commentary and jokes that weren’t as hilarious as he thought they were. His mixture of sarcasm and financial flexing oozed of arrogance and a superiority complex if you ask me, but what do I know? If the bulk of the room finds it funny, maybe it’s me with the stick up my ass.

“Here he comes.” Stacey announced Richard loud enough for us to hear. His suave demeanor moved across that stage like a professional and he grabbed the microphone to welcome his audience. At the head table was his wife, Matthew and Camille, who we’ve yet to speak to and two empty seats that I’m sure were reserved for us. I should have prayed before we left home, but I’m going to get it done now. If God is on our side, the hours we spend here are going to flash by us like nanoseconds.  

“Good evening and welcome to the fifth annual A&M Gala. It’s incredible be within our fifth year of hosting such a  prominent event to be able to enhance STEM programs at our very own New York City’s schools and to further research for children’s cancer. My wife, who was once an educator, has been a long time advocate for the future of children and immediately brought me onboard with her efforts upon the two of us meeting one of another. It is one of the reasons why I fell in love with such a beautiful woman. Please, give my loving wife Mrs. Elizabeth St. James a hand.”  As she stood, I could sense how much she lives for moments of gratification from the man who is the apple of her eye. The gleam in her eyes could make one believe that they’re new lovers and the pageant like wave at the attendees around the room as they applaud her efforts solidifies how huge her importance feels internally though it may be small on the grand scale of things. In her eyes, she’s the first lady of this city and her husband seemingly does his best to keep up with that illusion for her.

“I like to call this event the CCC. Cocktails, checks, and then cut them loose.” Though the laughter was loud, I nodded in agreement because that’s exactly what these events at all about; the drinks and the money. No one gives a damn about the meal.

“Tonight we’re going to auction off some incredible donations to the A&M Foundation from some of our well renowned high profile clients and others who have taken a liking to our initiative and decided to reach out with a helping hand. I believe in the concept of it takes a village. I was raised right here on these New York City streets, I attended the same schools that your donations will be going to, and I know what it’s like to be within a school that doesn’t have enough resources to further engage the student’s interests. It is because of that, that I made sure to put my boys in the best schools that I could find and I’m sure a lot of you have done and are doing the same thing for your children. Our inner city parents do not have capability to offer their children the same luxuries but that doesn’t mean that they should go without the proper aid to brighten their educational journeys. So tonight, it’s all about those students and the children who are fighting for their lives in children’s hospitals so that they are capable of having the opportunity to make a difference in this country in the same manner that the students we’re going to help tonight will do. That’s a fight that I can stand behind every single day of my life and I hope that you all are just as passionate about it as the St. James Family is. I’d like to personally thank my son Matthew St. James who was able to network and create a number of study abroad opportunities for our graduating STEM students next year. A number of them will be going to study in places like Singapore, Osaka, Dublin, Sweden, and Glasgow for two semesters before returning to the states and entering four year universities. Give him a hand please.” A muscle involuntarily twitched at the corner of my eye once he stood to his feet and Dante’s mouth formed into a grimace at the lie that earned Matthew the applause. What was once his initiative, turned into Dante’s as he made those phone calls to get students into those prestigious programs. I remember him speaking with the chancellor of the university in Dublin for over an hour while we were in London. Suddenly, I have the urge to slap the smug expression off of Richard’s face as he gives his incompetent piece of shit of a son the credit for the work that he didn’t do.

“And then there’s my baby boy, who is the heart of A&M. He’s the vessel. It is because of him that every single school we donate to has advanced technology inside of the classrooms; the latest being Apple products. This gala isn’t where his donations start and stop. He is our first donor every year and on his own, he donates to cancer research and to our local Boys and Girls Clubs. He is also a donor to after school programs and summer camps throughout the city. So we thank you Dante. Please, give me baby boy a round of applause. Stand son.” As quickly as he stood and waved is as quickly as he sat back down, instead of basking in the moment like the others. Modesty wasn’t at play, but his moodiness certainly was.

“And I don’t know if everyone knows, but my youngest is finally taking the step that all of the other men in the family have taken. It’s been a long time coming, a damn long time coming when you think about it, but Dante is engaged to be married to the lovely woman to the right of him. I’ve spent some years wondering when he’d find the one to settle down with. Hell, out of every intern pool we get every two years, I mentally pick out at least three who may be capable of grabbing his attention and locking him down but it never happens. One year, I lost twenty five thousand dollars because I bet on the hottest one out of the group and not even she could catch his eye.” I wonder if she’s here tonight and if she is, her boss not only embarrassed her but it just made note of himself being far more concerned with getting his son laid than what great skill set and work ethic she could bring to his company. How degrading and unfair. The glass ceiling never moves.

“But now I can see why. His absolutely breathtaking bride-to-be was already out there in the world waiting for him to find her and he did. So Autumn, I want to formally welcome you to the St. James Family. We are thrilled to have you come and be apart of our strong foundation and tight knit bond. Congratulations to both you and Dante on your engagement and we’re all looking forward to everything leading up to your nuptials and all of the great things that are to come after them. I suppose this grey I’m growing in means it’s time for a couple of grandchildren to make sense of it.” The applause was thunderous, though neither one of us stood up for the ovation. Dante’s hands remained clasped tightly upon the table and he fiddled with his knuckles while waiting for it to end. Unlike Lillian, his praise felt cynical and it unnerved me far more than anything he had done tonight. My stomach writhed about as Matthew’s gaze ripped through me and the growing tension within the man along side me felt like it was going to wreak havoc within this place at any given moment. I’m not sure if we’re going to last another hour.

The bidding was done over dinner and though I didn’t particularly want anything, Dante won a thirty thousand dollar yellow and white diamond cuff by Tiffany’s that shapes itself around the wrist like a crown. I have a feeling it’s a Christmas gift for his mother. It’ll save him the time of having to look for one and certain suits her glitzy taste. Despite his offer to pay for anything I wanted to raise my auction paddle for, I declined and instead enjoyed the sultry and soothing crooning of the legendary Tony Bennett. I’d been waiting for him to take the stage most of the night and when he did, I wasn’t left disappointed. In the midst of my tipsy fiancé gulping down glasses of champagne to sooth his nerves and his distance from all in the room, including myself, I swayed in my seat for what felt like a personal performance just for me to the classics I’ve known and fell in love with because of my mother. Though Elizabeth’s request for a dance with him was never obliged, Stacey forcefully got one out of him. It was attempt at lightening his mood and I’m sure their purposeful and yet silly off beat dancing successfully did so.

“He hates attending this.” Camille broke my trance as she plopped down into Dante’s seat and gave me a nudge of lighthearted acknowledgement. She too, must have been watching his behavior throughout the night.

“I know. We didn’t have go if he didn’t want to. I thought my being here would help him, but I guess I jumped the gun.”

“Oh no, your being here is helping him plenty. He would have been gone by now. He usually sneaks out before we’re even halfway through the night. Right now, the night is just about over and look who’s still here.”

“He’s unhappy though.”

“With them, not you Autumn.”

“But that’s the thing. Am I enough? I wonder about that sometimes. He’s been tense since we woke up this morning and it’s only worsened since we’ve been here. There’s nothing that I’ve been able to do to help that. That’s his family. I’m just a woman that he happened to fall for. If he doesn’t feel loved by them, then I have fears that my love may not be enough.” That has interrupted and tormented my thoughts throughout the night. I love him with every fiber of my being but there’s nothing like the love of your parents and siblings. My love is what was supposed to come in and complete everything. I want to fill that void for him, but I’m not sure if I’m capable of doing so because I can only be one pivotal role in his life. I can’t be Elizabeth, Richard, or Matthew for him.

“It’s to the point that you’re so more than enough for him that he’s willing to and eventually is going to walk away from all of this to protect the both of you and your future together. You don’t have to doubt anything. If anyone in this room should be filled with doubt, it’s them. All of them hope, in some capacity, that he’ll fold and conform to what they want and need him to be but their worst nightmares are happening instead. He’s going to be okay though. He’ll be the victor at the end of the pending war. You just have to protect him Autumn, because he’s been protecting you since he set his eyes on you.” Victor? War? Her choice of words were not only alarming but perplexing.

“And what about you?” I had to ask. Her marriage is a disaster at this point and yet she holds onto it for dear life. Even I, at some point, had to let go through it felt like another experience with death right after losing my brother.

“I love him and he already needs me more than I need him. Soon enough, that’s going to worsen and he’s going to need somebody more than he needs anything else. I intend to be that somebody in some type of manner, whether I’m his wife or not. I’m going to be fine. The more pray about it, the more I realize what God has planned for me. That man out there on the dance floor, he’s apart of God’s plans for you. Don’t ever forget that.”

“I won’t.”

“You look beautiful, by the way. The belle of the ball.” It rolled off her tongue in the same manner that it did my mother’s. I pray one of these days she’s able to say those exact words to her own child.

“Thank you. You as well Camille.” I lightly nudged her with a smile as the beading of her black Ralph and Russo gown brushed against my shoulder. “You know, you can always give me a call if you ever want to talk.”

“Thank you for that and please don’t hesitate to do the same.”

And with a kiss to my cheek, I was once again left alone at the table to swoon over Tony’s voice as the night began to close out.

Oddly, Richard didn’t speak to me but I have a feeling that the brief conversation between he and Dante that I noticed out of the corner of my eye is the cause of that. I didn’t have to hear it to know that their exchange wasn’t filled with words of love and adoration for one another. Rather than approaching me, during the auction, we locked eyes with one another and he raised his glass of scotch in acknowledgement and tossed all of the contents inside of the glass down his throat in one swift motion. He would repeat that gesture an additional time as he walked past this table while I sat alone and yet he never said a word. I’m not sure if I should be alarmed or appreciative of that.

“I have a surprise for you.”

His excuse for us remaining at the table until the crowd cleared out made sense initially but after an hour wait and even Stacey leaving us to get home to her husband and daughter, my impatience heightened along with his amusement over my growing attitude. Suddenly, all of the tension had gone out of the door with the St. James’ and the crowd of attendees and the often times silly nature of the man I’ve fallen in love with was back in full swing as he excitedly tapped his fingers on the table in anticipation for this surprise. I don’t understand why he can’t give it to me back at the apartment.

“Is it the cuff? Because if so, it’s absolutely beautiful and Lord knows I’m appreciative but you can present it to me at home babe.” Though I felt like Cinderella at the ball, the clock has strike beyond two a.m. and I’m ready to get home and take all of this off. Enough is enough.

“The cuff is yours. It’s not that though.” I’m too tired to scold him for bidding on that for me, but tomorrow? It’s on. “It’s a nicer surprise. Something that I owe you.”

“What do you owe me? I can’t image a single thing you owe me tonight.”

“But I do owe you something. You notice how the band hasn’t left yet?” His index finger pointed towards the stage and I took notice of what he mentioned. I figured they were waiting until everyone was gone to pack up and get out of here and that he and I were their hold up. Well, it turns out the latter is true.

“Also do you remember when I disappeared for a few minutes earlier in the evening?”

“Uhm.”

“Well, I asked my man Tony for a favor and he happily obliged. I owe you a dance. So before we get out of here, we must dance.” I thought the champagne trickled his tipsiness into the drunken territory as he revealed his surprised but a ripple of laughter left me as the one and only Tony Bennett took his place on the stage once again for an impromptu performance just for two.

“So.” As he stood to his feet, my bashful laughter only worsened. I’ve watched scenes like this in some of my favorite romance films and like every other woman who enjoys them, I’ve imagined moments like this for myself with a man made up in the figment of my imagination. Is this real life?

“May I have this dance?” There was no hesitation as I latched my hand onto his and allowed him to pull me out of the chair. The journey to the dance floor was a short one and yet as he stood before me, the giggles wouldn’t cease.

“I cannot believe this.”

“Why not?” Nearly every breath within me made their exit as he drew me as close as possible and wrapped an arm around my waist.

“Because you’re a dream.” And the beautiful lyrics from “The Way You Look Tonight” further solidified that. I’ve watched Fred Astaire sing that song so many times in “Swing Time”. It’s such a timeless scene and I can’t help but to rewind it multiple times before I move on to the next. He may not be Fred Astaire, but having Tony Bennett is absolutely the next best thing.

“You look like a dream.” His lips meshed into my own to began his process of ruining my lipstick and I welcomed what I’d been craving for most of the night. The one he stuck during the auction wasn’t enough.

“You feel like one.” He pulled my hand in for a kiss as he held it. The pressure of his warm hand on the small of my back subdued the tingling along it.

“Thank you for being here with me tonight. I can admit that I wasn’t the best date. I spent more time walking around to remain calm than tending to you.”

“There’s no need to thank me.” I wouldn’t want to be anywhere else. I’m not supposed to be anywhere else. “I know being here tonight came with difficulty. You haven’t done anything wrong.”

“And I want you to know that I am taking your words into consideration. I hear you. I’m going to do my best to allow myself to open up to her but I just have to do it in a way that makes sense for me. I just need some answers before all of it happens.”

“There’s nothing wrong with wanting answers. You deserve them. I just don’t want you go to any further in life without mending your issues with all of them, if possible. Even if you have to love them from a distance, at least your conscious will be clear. There won’t be any questions lingering in the back of your mind and regret replacing the pain that you’re experiencing now when it comes to them. This healing is for the sake of yourself and your mental health going forward. That’s what I’m advocating for.”

“I won’t let you down. I’m going to work on it.”

“Thank you.”

“I love you Autumn. In all of my choices, whether bad or good, you’re the best one that I’ve made.” I wasn’t expecting that to come next and yet as it did, I could no longer hear Tony nor could I see him from out of the corner of my eye. The man whose arms I’m wrapped up into had completely drowned me in his love and left me drunken off of all of him. As I bore into his intoxicating glare, I wasn’t capable of swiftly reflecting on every good or bad decision that I’ve ever made because within this moment, none of them matter. My decision to accept and be with him changed my life. That decision serves as a new beginning and the foundation for all that will further catapult me to being the Autumn that I’ve always dreamt of being. It taught me a language that only we can speak to one another. It has shown me the calm after the storm. It was a decision that I needed to make, not for the sake of being able to have a man and be smothered with love, but for the friendship that I gained from it and someone so beautiful promising me that he’ll be there to laugh and even cry with me for all of my days.

“I love you too.”

That I do. Beyond what words can say.

I’d gone from sizzling to full on scorching; my soul crying out in a separate desperation and thrill from my body.

I’m not sure how we’d gone from listening to John Coltrane with no words spoken to one another as fatigue left our frames lazily resting against the backseat of Marvin’s SUV, to stolen glances in the stainless steel elevator as we rode up to the privacy of his home, to pieces of our evening attire being scattered in a trail from the door, through the living room and finally, inside of the bedroom. Our eyes spoke the words that our mouths wouldn’t. The fire burning between the two of us conjoined in a enthralling blaze and it turned our hushed yearning into need.

“Dante…”  

My limps sprawled in the manner that he wanted them to as fervor filled every one of them in sync with his beckoning for me. As his fingers spread the silk of my flesh, his warm tongue laved at me in a ravenousness that left my hips rising to meet him and yet drawing away for the sake of my sanity. He savored me in a ceaseless longing, using what was made his to quench his thirst to further torment me.

“Please.” My hands pulled at his shoulders, to draw him away from his mission. If I didn’t, I will have fallen into an abyss that I wouldn’t be able to come back from.

“You’re so impatient.” The huskiness of his voice and the warm kisses he trailed along my belly to oblige and yet goad me left me mentally scolding myself for having drawn him away from his desires and yet the lathering of his tongue across my skin enticed me to fulfill mine. My impatience had gotten the best and worst of me as soon as our lips met for a kiss at that door and now I want to be filled with him more than I want anything else right now.

“Come here.”

I gave no explanation as his body hit the empty spot next to me and I swung my leg over the opposite side of his waist to hover over him. He didn’t hesitate to meet my lips with his, using his tongue to tempt and damn near dare me to continue on with whatever I intended to do for him. I looked away, as if anything else within the room mattered, and through his kisses to my neck and upper bosom, he read me like his favorite book and used a gentle finger to reorient my face so that our gazes would meet once again. The manner in which he caressed the skin of my face and intensified the passion within our gaze, withdrew my insecurity and destroyed any fears lingering within my conscious. Our breaths hitched as I wrapped my fingers around his bulging flesh and I guided him into my throbbing haven. As his hands clasped my hips, he deepened that plunge and mercilessly withdrew a vicious gasp out of me as my hips began to rise and lower to meet him. It all felt so raw and yet so sensual; so furious and yet unbelievably amorous.

Everything I thought I knew and should do has gone out of the window with every experience we have intertwined in his sheets. He’s studied me and briskly mastered the art of what it takes to drive me to the point of madness and then to bring me back down to this perplexing planet only to send me back to a euphoria that he has created for me and only me. A celebration of his birth open up the door for our exploration and it has only intensified since then. The costly flimsy materials that serve as a barrier between what he’s made the centerpiece of his studies and himself spends more time on the floor of this bedroom than they do on my body if we’re not out in the world dealing with our responsibilities. Our love making is a wake up call that opens up my day with blissfulness and our cries for one another serves as the lullaby before our nightly slumber. Am I enamored of him? Irrevocably.

“Fuck!”

I could no longer see him as my eyes remained tightly shut in unison with every nerve in my form as they continued to take me through a frenzy of unruly emotions. The rhythm teased him and yet it did not outdo him as he pulled at me to make sure I took all of him. The walls surrounding us captured every piercing yelp as my tightness clenched around him in need and every hiss of his to signify his undoing. The arch in my back deepened as the adrenaline intensified. Our shivers were in unison and the impulses trickling along my spine were a sign that I’d soon be surrendering to him.

With his arm tightly wrapped around my waist, his might turned me onto my back and his arms hiked my thighs up for his unwavering drive. His deep grunts were muffled into the nape of my neck and a spell of dizziness washed over me as sightlessness followed. The fluttering within my core worsened as the tips of my nails dug into the soft skin of his back and drove me to delirium through every twitch and tremble rattling against his frame. I’d beaten him this time but he wasn’t far behind. He became undone with a hoarse whisper of his love for me and his hands tangled in my now loosened long tresses.

“You know, I’ve put on the relationship ten because of you.” As my fingers locked into the thickness of his slightly grown out mane, he snickered against the dewy skin of my chest.

“I’m enjoying it.” Indeed he is. Grabbing, smacking, gripping, and sometimes all of the above, one right after the other.

“I bet you are.”

“You’re perfect.” Of course he’d say that. He says it more than enough for anyone to believe it to be a valid statement. I doubt he’ll ever stop telling me that. “This is perfect.”

Silence fell upon us while we used soft caresses to soothe our calming bodies. As the moonlight glimmered against our bare and glistening skin, it also cascaded over every diamond scintillating from my ears, neck, wrist, and most important of all, my hand. He removed everything else except those pieces.

“Baby.”

“Hm.” The nuzzling of his nose was suddenly replaced by his supple lips bringing some warmth to my nipple.

“Lets sleep later.”

Later means the sun will be somewhere in the sky and I am absolutely going to greet it with him.

Surprisingly, I woke up to the sight of cloudiness in the New York City skies and a perfect gloominess in the darkened bedroom that allowed our slumber to be plentiful and useful. Though I awoken before him, I continued to lay there tightly nested in his embrace, basking in his warm while obliging my lazy limbs need for continued rest. He hadn’t flinched, yawned, or made any type of move to warn me that his slumber was coming to an end. His heavy breathing and deep breaths blew against the back of my neck and nearly coaxed me into closing my eyes and resting just a bit more, but I denied myself of having a lazy day for the sake of finalizing everything for the Bluestar and Meridian holiday party. Glen’s supposed to pick me up at two o’clock so that I can make one more run to the florist about the table’s centerpieces. They’re a focal point of my Winter Wonderland theme and I need one more look at the mock up before the actual decorating begins. To say I’ll be glad when that party happens and is over is an understatement.

Once I pulled away from his body, I carefully slid out of bed in a failed effort not to awake him. Though he didn’t open his eyes or spoke, I knew I interrupted him because he turned over on his back and let out a heavy exhale. His Tom Ford button up shirt would serve as my robe once I tossed it over my nudity and I used my hands to clasp it close as I maneuvered into the living room in search of my clutch bag. The ravishing Zac Posen gown was safely laying across the blackened sofa and my bag? On the floor leading into the hall.

On my trek to the kitchen, I slid my phone out of the inside pocket and pressed the home button to light up my lock screen. Twelve missed calls. Twenty four text messages. Nine Twitter direct messages. Fifteen hundred mentions. Seven voicemails. My heart thrashed against my chest as my fingers slowly tapped at the screen to open up whatever world of trouble awaited me within those alerts. I could only think of one person; Andreas. Though I’m not sure what he could possible have to say about me at this point in time, I know that he can dig deep enough within himself and our past to find anything that I’ve done to make him tick with aggravation and despise me simply for existing. He never felt compelled to speak of our union to the media and often dodged any specific questions about me when meddling journalists took their questions in a far too personal route. He’d claim that his personal life is off limits and basketball is all that matters. After our interaction at Heather’s wedding, it’d be of no surprise if he finally did open up about our toxicity to further dig under my skin.

Before I clicked on any social media, I went straight to my inbox and opened Heather’s messages. If there’s anyone who’ll be able to cheer me up in the midst of any adversity, it’s her.

“What the fuck?” It slithered out of my mouth in a whisper as my thumb enlarged the first imagine she sent. The New York Post. On page five, inside of the infamous newspaper that has filtered throughout the New York City streets since the early eighteen hundreds was an enlarged photograph of Dante and I sharing what was a quick peck of the lips during the auction last night. My fingers swiped so I’d see the entirety of what is an entire two pages right in the middle of the paper. Though one brief paragraph mentioned the event and all that it entailed, the rest of the write up and the entire page five were of he and I basking in the presence of one another at many different timeframes of the night. The images of the celebrity attendees pointlessly donned page six. Though they were there, the sensationalized page before it was the eye catcher. Hell, even I would sip my caramel latte while taking a deep dive into it as I sit in a Starbucks or commute to Brooklyn on the four train.

“From WAG to riches. Former wife of decorated Miami Heat coach Andreas Harrington bounces back onto the scene of love with one of New York City’s most eligible bachelors.” I had to read it aloud to worsen the already bewildered expression on my face and a cringe followed as I skimmed through the four short paragraphs of sourced information about my former life in Miami and my now “bounced back” life with the “soon to be billionaire” Dante St. James. Beads of perspiration tickled the crevices of my skin as the back surface of my phone crashed into the counter top and my hands instantly went to my head as I tried to make sense of every detail.

“Dante!” Whatever rest he may have been trying to savor had to end. I suddenly feel like I haven’t had any.

As I approached the doorway of his bedroom, he was sitting on the edge of his bed with his phone resting in his right hand.

“I know. I see it.”  

And yet he remained calm. There wasn’t a single part of me unnerved by it all and yet here he is, with no signs of tension or irritation. The muscles in his back were calmer than they usually are when he has to get out of bed and head into the office. His lazy and slouched position is no where near as straight forward and tightened as he tends to be when he’s going to face those that he has no taste for. Every bit of enmity is all me and though not purposeful, I’m left to deal with it alone.

“I’m so confused right now. I don’t remember us taking pictures last night aside from the ones my mom took and the selfies on my phone.”

“They were taking pictures all night long. That’s what happens at events like that. This is all Richard. The gala has always had coverage the next day but with my name meddled in it? No. Whatever source they’re speaking of is him.” We’ve spoken about the encouragement from his father that he broadens his presence amongst the masses and how Stacey is trying to help him do so without him feeling like he has to sacrifice his personal and mental space, but never did I think gossip about what’s happening within his personal life would be within any of it. I’m guilty of Googling him early on and every piece I came across was written by some prominent business publication. Even the Forbes articles were all business and accomplishments, nothing personal, unlike the ones that are written today. More so for him than myself, I’m beyond irate that it has come to this. On my end, the undertone overtly alludes to gold digging. This is my sophomore year of college all over again.

“Your father does not like me. From WAG to riches? Soon to be billionaire? You do realize how that sounds right?”

“He doesn’t like anybody. It’s all business and playing politics when it comes to him. That aside, this is retaliation for me not including he and his wife in on the proposal.”

“So this is what you guys do? Get revenge on one another?” His head swung in my direction as a scowl donned his face. It’s the first time he’s looked at me since I returned to the bedroom and it’s rather alarming. Despite his unruffled posture, there’s something discerning about his reaction.  

“This is what who does? This isn’t a you guys thing. I didn’t do this shit.”

“I’m not saying that you did.”

“I don’t care about this Autumn. I’ve never been a person who feeds into gossip, even if it’s about myself. None of that matters. It’ll be talked about today and disregarded tomorrow. People are fickle and become bored easily. It’s my job to know that for a living. Richard will have his day. I’m going to make sure of that.”

“Okay.” What more is there to say? As easily as it flowed from his lips is as easily as he’s going to let it go. Fine by me.

“Where are you going?”

“Work. Unlike what your folks and the rest of the world may think of me, I have a job.”

“Autumn. What do you want me to do?”

“Nothing.”

And with that said, I walked into the bathroom and closed the door behind myself.

There was nothing else to be discussed.

#j. cole fanfic #j. cole fanfiction #j cole fanfic #j cole fanfiction #fanfiction #fan fiction #fanfic #rihanna fanfic #rihanna fanfiction

[sassyacrylicwatercolorcloud]

Birth date: 1946 (June 13)

Date of death: 1957 (11-drowned at camp crystal lake)

Height: 6,2ft

Weight: 105kg

Race: white

Nationality: American (new jersey)

Parents: Pamela (ma) and Elias voorhees (fa)

Relatives: Diana Kimble (paternal half-sister) Jessica Kimble (paternal half niece) Stephanie Kimble (paternal grand niece)

Kill count: 83 (98 by the time the film is over)

Notes:

Heart is football-sized and twice the size of a normal heart (for comparison a average human heart is the size of a tennis ball)

Heart is filled with black viscous fluid (NOT blood)

Heart is also infested by a worm-like demon that controls and animates Jason's "meat suit" and other bodies that it can possess granting it's host super strength and durability ECT.

When this said demon jumps hosts the previous hosts body begins to literally melt into a liquid puddle.

The heart can hypnotise anyone nearby into eating it (and thus the worm demon inside)

The original Friday the 13th (1980) was meant to be a standalone film however its success and the money it brought in forced the film crew to pump out a few more sequels.

[email2000s]

sinai

Sorry, guys, it's quick and for a kid's school project! (and you are the ones I thought might follow through, either because you work in a school, you have kids, you like science, or you're just plain nice) This is for a science fair project. If you could do this I would appreciate it! DON'T ASK, JUST PLAY! Copy and paste this letter into a new email (PLEASE do NOT hit "Forward"), then read the list of names below. If your name is on the list, put a star * next to it. If not, then add your name (in alphabetical order, put no star.) Send it to ten people and send it back to the person who sent it to you. Put your name in the subject box! You'll see what happens - it's kind of cool! Please keep this going. Don't MESS itup, please. Adam Adrienne Aileen AJ Allison Amy* Angela Anita Ann Anne Barbara Becky Bertha Beth* Betsy Beverly Brenda Brian Bridget Bryan< BR>Cami Carey Carla Carol * Carole Cathy Chakka Cheri Cheryl Chris Chrissy Christy Cindy Connie Courtney Dania Daniel Daphne Darcie Darlene Dawn* Deanna Deborah Denise* Dennis Desiree Diane** Dillon Dolores Donna Dorinda Diana * * Ed * Eileen Ellen Elvia Emily Eric Evangelo Florene Ginny Gloria Guy Heather Heidi Holly* Howie Hunter Jamila Jan** Jane Janet * Jean Jeanie Jeff Jennifer Jewell Joan * Joe Joshua Judy* Julie June Karen ** Karyn Kathy* Katie Kathryn Keili Kelly* Kelli Kerri Kharis Kimberly* Kimble Kristen* Kristina Kristy LaTora Laudine Laura** Leslie Lisa Lori Lorrie Lynn * Macey Madyson Mari Jo Maria Marny Marty Mary* Mary Jane Maureen * Megan Melody Mia Michael Michelle* Molly Nancy Nina Pam** Pamela Patricia Patty Paula* Rebecca Renee Rod Rowanne Sally * Sandy* Shana Sharon* Shauna Sheila Sinai Stacy Summer Susan******** Tammie Taylor Teri Tom Tina Tish Tracy Trisha Veronica Vicki Vicky Wanda Wesley Yolanda

#text #fwd

[joshtheoverlander]

A Firm Shipper, I am!

Alibaba x Kogyoku - Magi

Shiro x Allura - Voltron, Legendary Defenders

Shirou Emiya x Rin Tohsaka - Fate/Stay Night

Gajeel x Levy - Fairy Tail

Kyoko x Sayaka and Madoka x Homura - Madoka Magica

TK x Kari - Digimon

Mako x Gamagoori - Kill La Kill

Akko x Diana - Little Witch Academia

Tucker x Kimble, Doctor Grey x A Fucking Scalpel - Red vs. Blue

Kazuma x Megumin - Konosuba

Tatsuya x Mine - Akame ga Kill

Keima x Kanon - The World God Only Knows

Akane x Souta - If Her Flag Breaks

Ami x Minori - Toradora

Touma x Mikoto - A Certain Magical Index/A Certain Scientific Railgun

Tetsuo x Sakie - Interviews with Monster Girls

Ruby x Jaune - RWBY

Saito x Charlotte - Familiar of Zero (Because god fucking damn it, she's the most deserving of him, not that abusive bitch Louise!!!) And so on and so forth! If you agree or disagree with any of the ships on this list, go ahead and make your own and send them my way! I'd love to see what the faves of others are!

#ship #shipping #ships #anime #eclipse89 #list #anime ship

[redcarpetview]

Celebrity Hairstylist Kim Kimble Hosts Back to School Bash

       LOS ANGELES, CA – August 8, 2018 – Los Angeles based hair expert, Kim Kimble is best known for her head-turning hairstyles on clients like Beyonce, Taraji P Henson and Nicki Minaj, and now she’s partnered with Calvary Baptist Church Hawthorne and nonprofit, Thru Guidance led by Pastor Hosea Collins and Kendal Troutman to help boost self-esteem of under-resourced children and families getting ready to start the new academic year. Kim Kimble and the Kim Kimble Studio Styling Team will be on-site providing free haircuts and hair services.

         “Kids who feel good about themselves have the confidence to try new things. They are more likely to try their best and feel proud of what they can do. Self-esteem soars when people take good care of their hair. It might be a slight change in routine to improve hair health, or complete restyle, a ering. Whatever positive steps you can take with your hair can work wonders for your self-esteem,” says Kim Kimble. 

                       The free event takes place this Saturday, August 11 from 11am – 3pm at Calvary Church, 4081 W El Segundo Blvd, Hawthorne, CA 90250.

            About Kim Kimble 

Kim Kimble is one of the most sought after hair stylists in the entertainment industry. Her work can be seen in television, concerts, magazines, music videos, film and beauty expos. Through her dedication, talent, and skill, she has worked with such high profile celebrities as Beyoncé Knowles, Mary J Blige, Garcelle Beauvais, Shakira, Gabrielle Union, Jada Pinkett-Smith, Serena and Venus Williams, among others.

      Kim was trained at the Universal College of Beauty of Los Angeles in Leimert Park, Culver City College of Beauty, Vidal Sassoon Academy, and Dudley Cosmetology University in North Carolina. In 1995, Kim opened her first salon, Phase II Hair Salon, and in 2000 opened her second salon Kimble Hair Studio in West Hollywood. Kimberly’s film industry break was the 1996 film, ‘B.A.P.S.,’ starring Halle Berry and directed by Robert Townsend. From there Kim went on to do television shows like ‘The Parenthood,’ ‘Jamie Foxx,’ and ‘Moesha.’ However, Kim’s artistry shines most when fashioning period styles in films such as ‘Dreamgirls’ and ‘Cadillac Records’ where she respectively recreated the looks of Diana Ross and Etta James for Beyoncé.

       With her high profile client base and her reputation as one of the industry’s most sought after hair professionals, Kim Kimble has styled hair for major cosmetic companies including L’Oreal, CoverGirl, and Neutrogena, and has also worked on campaigns for Pepsi, American Express, and True Star for Tommy Hilfiger. Kimberly’s cutting edge hairstyles and innovative contributions to the world of beauty have been featured in hundreds of magazines including: Italian Vogue, Vogue, V, W, Harper’s Bazaar, Elle, Rolling Stone, InStyle, Essence, Us Weekly, Blender and Seventeen, among others. Kim has created looks for numerous magazine coves, album covers, music videos and commercials.

        About ThruGuiDANCE

ThruGuiDANCE is a volunteer-based International nonprofit 501(c)3 organization committed to destroying barriers of poverty and cycles of violence in underserved communities by sharing the love of God and His desire for us to “love one another just as He has loved us” – John 15:12 ###

For more information and the latest on Kim Kimble visit:

   Website:         ��www.kimkimble.com   

Facebook:       Facebook/KimbleHairStudio

Twitter:          @kimblehaircareInstagram:  @kimblehaircare

            For more information and the latest on Calvary Baptist Church Hawthorne visit:

Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/Calvary-Baptist-Church-Hawthorne-257277954296137/  

      For more information and the latest on Thru Guidance visit:

Website: http://www.thruguidance.org/    

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#Events #Kim Kimble #Calvary Baptist Church #Thru Guidance #ThruGuiDANCE #Kimble Hair Care #kimblehaircare #KimbleHairStudio #Kimble Hair Studio #Beyonce #Beyonce's Hair #Nicki Minaj #Nicki Minaj's Hair #Naomi Richard #naomijrichard #Naomi Jean Richard #RCV #Red Carpet View #Taraji P Henson #mary j blige

[ao3feed-brucewayne]

Gasoline

read it on the AO3 at http://ift.tt/2Deai7c

by neobatgirl

Young Justice AU where Troia forms her own team after Jason Todd's death.

Words: 2227, Chapters: 2/?, Language: English

Fandoms: Young Justice (Cartoon), Teen Titans - All Media Types

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death

Categories: F/F, F/M, M/M, Multi

Characters: Donna Troy, Bette Kane, Jason Todd, Artemis Crock, Hank Hall, Dawn Granger, Charley Parker, Lilith Clay, Dick Grayson, Diana Prince, Lillian Worth, Rose Wilson, Bruce Wayne, Grant Wilson, Elise Kimble, William Roades

Relationships: Donna troy/jason todd, Donna Troy & Bette Kane, Bette Kane/Artemis Crock, Bette Kane/Hank Hall, Dawn Granger/Hank Hall, Charley Parker/Bette Kane, Lilith Clay & Donna Troy, Donna Troy & Dawn Granger, Hank Hall & Donna Troy, Charley Parker & Donna Troy, Donna Troy & Dick Grayson, Dick Grayson/Bette Kane, Slade Wilson/Lillian Worth, Rose Wilson & Bette Kane, Grant Wilson/Elise Kimble, Grant Wilson & Bette Kane, Grant Wilson & Donna Troy

Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, what if donna was fed with everything exploding, and made her own covert ops team, known as the titans, Origin Story, Team Bonding, dark side club, lots of fluff, and lots of angst, donna is a wreck, bette is a disaster, together, they make a really messed up duo, that support each other in everything they do and are best friends

read it on the AO3 at http://ift.tt/2Deai7c

#IFTTT #ao3feed #bruce wayne #batman #the dark knight #gotham

[stochasticplanet]

30.471243°N, 99.992304°W Kimble County, Texas, USA photo by Bob and Diana Nelson — Built in 1917, this Methodist church served the community of Copperas, Texas, now a ghost town. Today's location is less than half a mile from the 100th meridian, widely considered the eastern boundary of the American West.

#Kimble County #Texas #USA

[selena-snape]

Familia Snape

Primera Generación

¤ Morphin Nikolai Lazarus (1347-????) y Tallulah Aurelia Snape (1351-????)

Segunda Generación

¤ Gabriel Soren Snape (1389-????) y Conan Levi Malfoy (1834-???)

Tercera Generación

¤ Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore (1881-???) y Gellert Amadeus Grindelwald (1883-????)

¤ Aberforth Florian Leighton Soren Dumbledore (1883-????) y Belvina Black (1886-????)

¤ Ariana Odolette Wilhemina Dumbledore (1885-????) y Arcturus Black (1884-????)

¤ Tom Marvolo Riddle (1926-????) y Marcus Eli Mulciber (1926-???)

¤ Valens Basilius Snape (1928-????) y Charles Conan Levin (1924-????)

¤ Tobias Vincent Snape (824-????) y Eileen Aiko Snape (1938-????)

¤ Pamela Demetria Malfoy (1931-????) y Elias Paul Voorhees (1928-????)

¤ Abraxas Ariel Malfoy (1936-????) y Persephone Avery (1935-???)

¤ Evangeline Ethel Malfoy (1938-????) y Lazarus Granville Sparda (????-????)

Cuarta Generación

¤ Crendence Aurelius Grindelwald (1901-????) y Lycoris Hesper Black (1904-????)

¤ Modesty Orianna Grindelwald (1918-????) y Michael Monroe Miller (1916-????)

¤ Valentine Desmond Dumbledore (1904-????) y Leroy Samuel Cooley (1906-????)

¤ Octavius Theodore Dumbledore ( 1908-????) y Minerva Ursula Parker (1905-????)

¤ Cassandra Eliza Dumbledore (1914-????) y Zivar Pollux Gallanford (1910-????)

¤ Callidora Eridanis Black (1915) y Harfang Ernest Longbottom (1913-????)

¤ Cedrella Oriana Black(1917-????) y Septimus Ronald Weasley (1915-????)

¤ Charis Scorpia Black (1919-????) y Caspar Dorian Crouch (1916-????)

¤ Trish Clarice Riddle (1954-????) y "Lady" Mary Ann Arkham (1958-????)

¤ Vanessa Octavia Riddle (1959-????) y Mike Spencer Peters (1952-????)

¤ Delphinie Savannah Riddle (1983-????) y Serena Angelette Denford (1981-????)

¤ Dominika Hazel Levin (1946-????) y Thomas Downey Richardson (1944-????)

¤ Vincent Alexander Levin (1951-????) y Daphne Rosie Campbell (1953-????)

¤ Niven Finnian Levin (1955-????) y River Aura Stone (1953-????)

¤ Devin Ivan Levin (1959-????) y Malorie Estella Van Kleiss (1962-????)

¤ Severus Tobias Snape (1960-????) y Ulaz Devereux Snape (1958-????)

¤ Ryou Nathan Snape (1971- ???) y Krolia Diane Kogane

¤ Jason Ezra Voorhees (1953-???) y Michael Gideon Myers (1957-????)

¤ Diana Madeline Voorhees (1961-????) y Mason Samuel Kimble (1960-????)

¤ Aphrodite Medea Malfoy (1952-????) y Ethan Marcus Nott (1950-????)

¤ Lucius Abraxas Malfoy (1954-????) y Narcissa Meissa Black (1955-????)

¤ Icarus Theodore Malfoy (1956-????) y Cassius Hastings (1957-????)

¤ Orpheus Lev Malfoy (1959-????) y Elsie Cobris (1959-????)

¤ William Joseph Dixon (1960-????) y Cassandra Janeth Lewis (1963-????)

¤ Kore Allegra Malfoy (1961-????) y Regulus Arcturus Black (1961-????)

¤ Pandora Luna Malfoy (1963-????) y Xenophilius Leland Lovegood (1961-????)

¤ Vergil Amos Sparda (1956-????) y Faith Mackenzie Myron (1959-????)

¤ Dante Alastor Sparda (1956-????) y Hope Melissa Myron (1959-????)

Quinta Generación

¤ Bastian Lynx Grindelwald (1924-????) y Riven Alexander Blackwood (1942-????)

¤ Theodore Niven Grindelwald (1929-????) y Amelie Luna Roberts (1931-????)

¤ Piper Delilah Grindelwald (1934-????) y Alvin Nicholas Dream (1932-????)

¤ Madeline Senka Miller (1933-????) y April Clarissa Wilson (1931-????)

¤ Percival Valentine Miller (1937-????) y Damien Thomas Haywood (1939-????)

¤ Benjamin Caleb Miller (1941-????) y Abigail Aura Cooper (1938-????)

¤ Micah Vladimir Miller (1945-????) y Louis William Afton (1946-????)

¤ Albia Bellona Miller (1949-????) y Gideom Silas Murphy (1945-????)

¤ Manon Ariana Miller (1952-????) y Cassius Roderick Abbott (1950-????)

¤ Ian Mason Dumbledore (1924-????) y Bellona Damara Huxley (1921-????)

¤ Ada Demetria Dumbledore (1929-????) y Azura Jasmine Brooks (1927-????)

¤ Kitty Xanthe Dumbledore (1933-????) y Ryan Christopher Everett (1930-????)

¤ Charlotte Macellina Dumbledore (1938-????) y Sebastian Artemis Jensen (1935-????)

¤ Demetrius Kieran Dumbledore (1942-????) y Ulric Frederick Golding (1940-????)

¤ Fabian Leonard Gallanford (1931-????) y Evan Diaval Merton (1935-????)

¤ Sarah Elizabeth Gallanford (1935-????) y Juliette Liona Lancework (1933-????)

¤ Marjorie River Gallanford (1938-????) y Alder Amadeus Holecraft (1940-????)

¤ Edward Florian Longbottom (1934-????) y Augusta Margaret Longbottom (1936-????)

¤ Algie Lazarus Longbottom (1937-????) y Enid Verna Longbottom (1939-????)

¤ Daniel Vincent Longbottom (1942-????) y Coraline Eliza Longbottom (1945-????)

¤ Gabriel Roderick Weasley (1941-????) y Malia Juniper Lenington (1943-????)

¤ Norman Carlton Weasley (1945-????) y Doris Ariana Armstrong (1947-????)

¤ Arthur Marlon Weasley (1950-????) y Molly Elliana Prewett (1950-????)

¤ Casthora Aura Crouch (1934-????) y Aaron Leonard Luthor (1930-????)

¤ Aries Adeline Crouch (1937-????) y Theresa Rose Taylor (1935-????)

¤ Bartemius Crouch (1940-????) y Rebecca Maia Crouch (1941-????)

¤ Lilith Moira Riddle (1983-????) y julian Cameron Grey (1980-????)

¤ Theodore August Peters (1976-????) y Magnus Roman Watson (1978-????)

¤ Hazel Opal Peters (1983-????) y Meredith Mavis Monroe (1981-????)

¤ Bloom Larissa Peters (1997-????) y Sky Aurelius Peters (1997-????)

¤ Cora Stephanne Riddle (2005-????) y Alucard Magnus Holland (2002-????)

¤ Francis Ezra Riddle (2008-????) y Archibald Niven Allender (2008-????)

¤ Aaron Christopher Riddle (2012-???) y Verena Michelle Dyer (2010-????)

¤ Joshua Stephen Riddle (2013-????) y Esther Amalia Holt (2015-????)

¤ Charles Samuel Riddle (2016-????) y Ruby Stephanie Saffron (2018-????)

¤ Iris Aurelia Riddle (2018-????) y Marshall Everett Conrad (2016-????)

¤ Theophania Calliope Richardson (1964-????) y Corinne Roxanne Everleigh (1962-????)

¤ Arabella Beatrix Richardso (1968-????) y Henry Oliver Brooks (1966-????)

¤ Kai Dominick Richardson (1971-????) y Flynn Milo Wolf (1969-????)

¤ Willow Cosima Levin (1969-????) y Nicoletta Pomona Wilford (1967-????)

¤ Fern Violet Levin (1972-????) y Marie Honoria Ollivander (1970-????)

¤ Euphemia Alessandra Levin (1974-????) y John Florean Palmer (1972-????)

¤ Dorothea Giovanna Levin (1978-????) y Elladora Eloise Gibson (1975-????)

¤ Salazar Lucius Levin (1973-????) y Holly Avalon Barnes (1970-????)

¤ Eleanor Hope Levin (1977-????) y Savannah Genevieve Shaw (1975-????)

¤ Gracie Isadora Levin (1979-????) y Marvin Declan Sullivan (1983-????)

¤ Alec Aurelian Levin (1982-????) y Claire Piper Johan (1980-????)

¤ Mason Ezekiel Levin (1986-????) y Clementine Octavia Albion (1983-????)

¤ Lotor Comet Snape (????-????) y Giovanni Benjamin Lestrage (1974-????)

¤ "Moon Demon" Darius Angelo Snape (1973-????) y "Dark Angel" Arianne Alysson Snape

¤ "Killer Shadow" Lazarus Ignatius Snape (1973-????) y "Ice Demon" Urania Calliope Snape

¤ Morterius Snape (1973-???) y Hisirdoux Artemas Casperan (1098-????)

¤ Severina Tabitha Snape (1975-????) y Valentine Orion Dencort (1972-????)

¤ Ursa Destiny Snape (1975-????) y Vladimir Micah Masters (1964-????)

¤ Regulus Orion Snape (1977-????) y Angel Archibald Mountford (1975-????)

¤ Cygnus Arcturus Snape (1977-????) y Cassius Warrington (1977-????)

¤ Elle Rigel Snape (1979-????) y Touta Matsuda (1978-????)

¤ Beyond Aurelian Snape (1979-????) y Teru Mikami (1982-????)

¤ Emma Elizabeth Snape (1983-????) y Verna Clarissa Rawlinson (1981-????)

¤ Eileen Umbra Snape (1983-????) y Samara Enola Norton (1984-???)

¤ Ariel Kolithace Snape (1985-????) y Clementine Amarah Gorgon (1985-????)

¤ Alexander Valens Snape (1985-????) y Cassidy Vienna Keller (1987-????)

¤ Lysander Nikolaus Snape (1985-????) y Gabrielle Delacour (1986-????)

¤ Minerva Evangeline Snape (1986-????) y Alexia Mary Ray (1989-????)

¤ Walburga Aries Snape (1988-????) y Lynn Juniper Dumbar (1986-????)

¤ Druella Angelette Snape (1988-????) y Lazarus Julian Norton (1991-????)

¤ Raphaela Bellatrix Snape (1990-????) y Finnegan Glenn Gardens (1988-????)

¤ Selena Narcissa Snape (1993-????) y Barbara Rose Kidman (1996-????)

¤ Regris Niven Snape (2001-????) y Acxa Valda Snape (2003-????)

¤ Kevin Ethan Snape (2001-????) y Cooper Joseph Daniels (1999-????)

¤ Gwendolyn Hiroko Snape (1994-????) y Emily Flora Blunder (1997-????)

¤ Ezra Yamato Snape (1998-????) y Aidan Vincent Holdcroft (1999-????)

¤ Ryan Yoshio Snape (2001-????) y Janet Mary Eastmond (2008-????)

¤ Keith Akira Snape (2005-????) y James Griffin (2005-????)

¤ Mako Etha Snape (2006-????) y Patricia Harriet Smith (2009-????)

¤ Yuriko Edith Snape (2008-????) y Harvey Everett Aylesworth (2006-????)

¤ Morgana Kendra Voorhees (1973-????) y Carrie Margaret White (1970-????)

¤ Jessica Lorna Kimble (1980-????) y Steven Freeman (1978-???)

¤ Dante Dorian Nott

¤ Dominick Edgar Nott

¤ Theodore Phineas Nott (1979-????) y Pansy Genevieve Parkinson (1980-????)

¤ Audrey Andromeda Malfoy y Andre Perseus Bourgeois

¤ Gabriel Bastian Malfoy y Emilie Calliope Graham de Vanily

¤ Roynard Hydra Malfoy y Violet Rowena Deekers

¤ Raymond Lynx Malfoy y Cedric Atticus Diggory

¤ Draco Lucius Malfoy y Astoria Coraline Greengrass

¤ Marcus Malfoy

¤ Elias Malfoy

¤ Magenta Malfoy

¤ Daphne Malfoy

¤ Elladora Malfoy

¤ Garlan Malfoy

¤ Farlan Malfoy

¤ Merle Ariel Dixon y "Jesus" Paul Finnegan Rovia

¤ Hope Leah Dixon

¤ Carl Thomas Dixon

¤ Levi Armand Dixon

¤ Daryl Hunter Dixon y Rick Jonah Grimes

¤ Nigellus Aries Black

¤ Cygnus Alphard Black

¤ Walburga Vera Black

¤  Phineas Arcturus Black

¤ Cassius Florian Lovegood

¤ Myra Hestia Lovegood y

¤ Luna Pandora Lovegood

¤ Vitale Astaroth Sparda

¤ Neron Asura Sparda

¤ Merak Emory Sparda

¤ Armand Vincent Sparda

¤ Nicholas William Sparda

¤ Septimus Conan Sparda

#Familia Snape

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Getting Over in the Heart of Dixie

Good wishes and hope... votes will tell the tale whether this is wishful buzz or the beginning of a new south.

When people think about progressive battles in the U.S., they probably don’t think about Alabama. Instead, the state is known as the home of U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions and the kind of conservative, populist politics that led Drew Pendergrass of the Harvard Politics Review to describe the Trump phenomenon as “The Alabamafication of America.” The state also has a reputation for political scandal. In recent years, two governors and the state House speaker have been involved campaign finance fraud, bribery, and other ethics violations. Then  there’s Conservative Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore, who was suspended for telling state probate judges they could ignore the SCOTUS marriage equality decision – and who is also running for Sessions’s seat in the Senate.

But despite this “Alabamafication,” progressives here, including many working-class people (who now make up the majority of the state’s population), have ramped up the fight for economic justice. And there’s plenty to fight about. A few weeks ago, CNBC ranked Alabama as the  “worst” state in the U.S. to live in. Working-class Alabamians navigate a formidable obstacle course toward the “American Dream”:

Regressive Tax Policies: Alabama has among the lowest effective property tax rates (4.8%), but because property taxes and corporate taxes cannot fund adequate services, state coffers rely heavily on sales taxes, disproportionately penalizing the working poor and robbing the budget of potential Federal matching funds (The Alabama Tax and Budget Handbook, 2015 edition). Alabama is also one of just fourteen states that tax groceries, and one of only four to charge the full sales tax rate on food.

Predatory Lending: Interest rates for payday loans (capped at $500) can be as high as 456% APR, much higher than in North Carolina, which implemented on a trial basis the 36% APR cap allowed by federal law for active military service. Based on public support, NC kept the cap. Georgia effectively banned payday lending services with a 60% APR cap, heavy regulation, and strict enforcement of the regulations.

Mass Incarceration: Alabama ranks third highest in imprisonment rate, highest death sentences per capita, and among states with the most overcrowded facilities, which prompted a Federal intervention and a proposed $845-million prison-building bill. The state’s Julia Tutwiler Prison was the only women’s facility to make the Mother Jones list of worst prisons in the U.S.

Health Outcomes: As of 2015, Alabama has the second-highest obesity rate in the nation, resulting from high poverty rate, high uninsured and underinsured population, prevalence of cheap empty calories, inadequate nutritional literacy, food deserts, and the scarcity of physicians and facilities in rural areas. In addition, state leaders have been unwilling to expand Medicaid coverage through the Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare), denying thousands sufficient healthcare.

Yes, Alabama has a multitude of serious problems, but it also has plenty of assets. Alabama’s 132,000 miles of rivers and streams, along with its geology and warm climate, nurture the highest level of biodiversity east of the Mississippi. Our culinary diversity embraces many barbeque creations, including a unique white sauce that produces the best chicken and pork you ever put in your mouth. Forrest Gump numbers among hundreds of famous Alabamians. Music artists the world over travel here to achieve the “Muscle Shoals Sound.” Mardi Gras originated in Mobile (1703), not New Orleans (1730s).

Along with all this, Alabama the Beautiful is home to several social justice organizations. Montgomery is ground zero for much of the key work of civil rights groups, and it is also the birthplace of Morris Dees’ Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and Bryan Stevenson’s Equal Justice Initiative (EJI). Both work tirelessly to end racial injustice by tracking and prosecuting hate groups and by remedying inequities in the justice system, respectively.

Alabama Arise staff and volunteers lobby lawmakers, speak at committee hearings, and attend legislative sessions.

In addition, diverse comrades in Alabama, including Southern Scots-Irish “Crackers” like me and working-class Black Belt Blacks, are uniting to fight economic oppression. One focal point for our efforts is another state asset: Alabama Arise, a nonprofit, non-partisan grassroots coalition of congregations, community organizations, and individuals. Arise consists of Alabama Arise, a 501 (c)(4) advocacy organization formed in 1988 and Arise Citizens’ Policy Project, a 501 (c)(3) research and organizing group founded in 1994. Arise defines its mission as “promoting state policies that improve the lives of low-income people.” Through policy analysis, statewide organizing, and citizen advocacy, Arise envisions an Alabama where all people have resources to reach their full potential, people participate actively in their own governance, and the state government promotes the common good and respect for each person’s humanity.

Kimble Forrister became Executive Director of Alabama Arise in 1991, when the organization had 60 member groups and a mailing list of 170 donors. Now the membership rolls have grown to 150 groups and 1,094 donors, as well as over 5,000 Facebook likes and some 2,400 Twitter followers. Early on, Arise worked on tax reform and welfare issues. In the early 1990s, Alabama provided the nation’s lowest monthly welfare benefit for a mother of two at $118, but Forrister recalls that Arise lobbied state lawmakers to raise the amount to $215. Later, Arise worked to raise the income tax threshold for a family of four from $4,600 to $12,600, and their efforts led to the first tenants’ rights law.

As Arise grew, Forrister reallocated its staff and funding to provide balance between organizing and advocacy initiatives. Currently, Arise employs two policy analysts, two organizers, a communications director, a development director, and an executive director. Members prioritize issues at annual meetings, which draw about 250 people – attendance that has more than tripled from 80 over the past decade. Staff have used listening sessions with low-income clients to identify key elements of welfare reform. Those sessions revealed that in order to transition from welfare to work, people needed “jobs, child care, and transportation.” In addition, clients pointed out the need for second chances for those released from prison. Based on these conversations, Arise focused on restoring SNAP (food stamps/Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program) and TANF (welfare/Temporary Assistance to Needy Families) benefits to ex-felons, as well as narrowing the list of crimes that denied them the franchise.

Partnering with organizations such as Greater Birmingham Ministries, the Federations of Child Care Centers of Alabama (FOCAL), and Hispanic Interest Coalition of Alabama, Arise strives to make progress on what Forrister describes as “key issues like health care, predatory lending, criminal justice issues, and housing.” Stakeholders collaborate to develop strategies and tactics to enact successful campaigns, including this year’s issue priorities:

Adequate state budgets, including a push for tax revenue increases and Medicaid expansion;

Tax reform, including ending the grocery tax and restructuring income tax;

“Ban the Box,” removing criminal history checkboxes on job applications;

Death penalty reform, increasing indigent defense funding, instituting an execution moratorium, and abolishing judicial override (in which judge’s sentencing decision supercedes a jury’s);

Housing Trust Fund, garnering sufficient funding to sustain the Housing Trust Fund set up in 2012;

Minimum wage effort, raising state wage above federal level;

Payday/title lending reform, instituting tighter industry regulations; and

Public transportation, allotting state money in order to obtain Federal matching funds.

In light of recent victories such as banning judicial override (see “death penalty reform” above), Forrister remains optimistic. He believes that long asleep Alabamians have “become woke,” in part because of the election. “After the 2016 election,” Forrister says, “activism flourished in a number of Alabama cities.”

Looking at efforts around healthcare, Forrister sees a “spirit of collaboration, from agency staff to providers to advocates.” Teamwork helped make Alabama the first state to offer health insurance to children in low-income families (CHIP), convince courts to overhaul child welfare, and design a non-profit structure for Medicaid and long term care (a model Arise and lawmakers are teaming up to implement).

If Alabama activists can “get over” and achieve such gains, imagine what could happen in other communities when citizens join forces. Find out what is happening in your community and get involved. When we all do better, we all do better.

Helen Diana Eidson

Helen Diana Eidson is an Assistant Professor of English at Auburn University in Alabama, whose research deals with working-class rhetorics, social movements, and community literacy. She is writing a rhetorical biography of Stetson Kennedy (1916-2011), a folklorist, journalist, and historian whose 70-year career spanned labor, civil rights, peace, and environmental movements.

#human rights

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Spring 2017 Dean’s List announced

NATCHITOCHES – One thousand and fifty-one students were named to the Spring 2017 Dean’s List at Northwestern State University. Students on the list earned a grade point average of between 3.5 and 3.99. Those named to the Dean’s List by hometown are as follows.

 APO – Rebecca Waters;

 Abita Springs – Destiny Simon;

 Albany – Joseph Joffrion, Hailey Pomes;

 Alexandria – Ashley Ammons, Nicholas Bailey, Courtney Brown, Tonya Clark, Kimberly Colston, Dustin Cross, Christopher Das Neves, Josyf Das Neves, Claudia Gauthier, Amy Girtman, Monnie Guillory, Anna Hall, Bessie Hargrett, Jordan Johnson, Hannah Kenimer, Kristina Langley, ShaKiyla Lindsey, Jimmie Magee, Aaron Martin, Danielle McDowell, Julian Morgan, Kaycee Ouber, Madeline Pharis, Sha’Darius Plummer, Sadae Polk, Shacora Simpson, Tammethia Starks, Christina Thiels, Renee Cunnikin, Casey Holts;

 Anacoco – Jacquelyn Bennett, Michael Chesher, Brittney Dittbrender, Kaylee Herrington, Victoria Jackson, Karington Johnson, Caitlin McKee, Shelby MceIveen, Jason Ortiz, Bret Phillips, Brooke Phillips, Jaclyn Smith, Samuel Turnipseed, Erica Wade, Brianna Walters, Emily Williams, Clarissa Williamson;

 Annona, Texas – Candace Baird;

 Arabi – Cursten Smith;

 Arcadia – Margaret Myles;

 Arlington, Texas – Samantha Bell;

 Arnaudville – Jacob David;

 Athens – Tyler Anderson;

Atlanta – Shannon Jones, Brianne Lashley, Leah Lashley;

 Austin, Texas – Dylan Graves;

 Baker – Nijah Lain;

 Ball – Karen Holmes, Katie Wakefield;

 Barksdale AFB – Elysia Lanier, Priscilla Molina;

 Baton Rouge – Erin Berlin, Rosa Campbell, Peyton Clark, Carmeka Cooper, Marquise Foster, Madison Fry, Julian Guerrero Acevedo, Chloe Hidalgo, Rebecca Ladmirault, Bethany Lee, Stan Mays, Henrietta Mercer, Montariel Minor, Alexandra Piedrahita, Emma Rivet, Juila Soileau, Haley Sylvester, Savannah Thibodeaux;

 Belcher – Sierra Laing;

 Belle Chasse – Hayley Barbabzon, Nikki Lopez, Annie Wright;

 Belmont – Ashley Hill, Mallory Simpson;

 Ben Wheeler, Texas – Cheyenne Brown;

 Bentley – Samuel Green, Lindzey Hayes;

 Benton – Kelyn Bihm, Leah Digilormo, Sara Hale, Kara Knippers;    

 Blanco, Texas – Reagan Rogers;

 Blue Ridge, Texas – Amber Bishop;

 Bogalusa – Amanda Crawford;

 Bordelonville – Taylor Arnouville;

 Bossier City – Jael Ahmad, Jessica Alvarenga, Shannon Ansley, Bonny Bacoccini, Janeth Bird, Shelby Booth, Emilee Branch, Sheldon Busby, Elisa Ceballos, Jordan Chaffin, Emily Cheatham, Gina Copeland, Peyton Davis, Madison Edwards, Emily Fisher, Kelly Flores, Charles Gallaher, Devonte Hall, Jacob Hammons, Adrianne Hampton, Joshua Henry, Teaka Jacobs, Corina Jacobsen, Casey Johnson, Corey Johnson, Victoria Johnson, Haley Jorgensen, Alyssa Kidd, Alexandra Madrid, Samantha Maeitte, Rance Mason, Gina Masson, Sabri Parks, Michael Phelps, Megan Redmon, Jade Reich, Timothy Rice, Kassidy Robideaux, Georgenia Smith, Savannah Stevens, Joshua Straub, Jessica Sullivan, Angel Vakoff, Chandler Vascocu, Kimberly Ventura Gonzalez, Kristen Warke, Kiera White, Haneen Zeidan, Jordan Ginn, Katherine Parson Benjamin Johnson;                

 Bourg – Mia Adams;

 Boyce – Hannah Aslin, Brooklynn Basco, Lauren Davidson, Stacey Gannaway, Timothy Glass, Sarah Hill, Sonya Hill, Ashley Smith;

 Bradenton, Fla. – Alexandra Latham;

 Broken Arrow, Okla. – Madeline Drake;

 Brookeland, Texas – Morgan Horn, Paige West;

 Broussard – Dylan Dunford;

 Brownsboro, Texas – Brice Borgeson;

 Brusly – Dominique Bennett;

 Burleson – Eric Neeley;

 Bush – Lane Clevenger;

 Calhoun – Conn Mccandlish;

 Calvin – Joseph Heyse, Erin Price;

Campti – Troy Coleman, Kelsey Coutee, Damarte Fisher, Allison Friday, Kortney Greer, Trenton Parker, Ronald Reliford, Jordan Rowell, Kimberly Sepulvado, Sade’ Thomas;

 Carencro – Ashley Guidry, Jasmin Thibodeaux;

 Carrollton, Texas – Victoria Miller;

 Cartagena, Colombia – Nestor Mercado-Garcia, Ronald Rodriguez Herrera, Valentina Herazo Alvarez, Valeria Nieto Rodriguez, Luis Osoria Betancourt, Juan Paternina Paez, Veronica Perez Espinosa, Ramon Sarruf Monroy, Joan Santos Sierra;

 Castor – Priscilla Harrell, Azita Rivers, Kaycee Collinsworth;

 Cecilia – Margo Barstow;

 Cedar Park, Texas – David Moritz;

 Chalmette – Scarlett Saizan;

 Chauvin – Xandria Petty;

 Cheneyville – Katherine Davis, Shelbie Moriarty;

 Choudrant – Taylor Holley;

 Church Point – Carolyn Fontenot;

 Colfax – Mikayla Richardson, Dalton Wade, Zachary Wade;

 College Station, Texas – Jasmyn Steels;

 Conroe, Texas – Sidney Salmans,

 Converse – Shayna Brown, Delia Smith, Benjamin Wright;

 Cottonport – Brikeysha Duskin, Zachary Gauthier;

 Coushatta – Elizabeth Durr, Jason Gross, Jeremy Lawson, Williams Lee, Aaron Murray, Precious Smith, Jesseca Tomerlin, Mackenzie Williams, Caroline Wren, Lauren Young;

 Covington – Tristan Bridges, Justin Brogdon, Ian Cassidy, Rachel Coyne, Erika Jarlock, Kayla Keys, Titus McCann, Cathleen Oviedo, Catherine Sadler;

 Coyolilla Veracruz, Mexico – Guadalupe de Jesus Mendez Zaragoza;

 Cut Off – Kaelyn Musgrave;

 Cypress, Texas – Kaitlyn St. Clair;

 Dallas – Amy Renteria, Gabrielle Stevens;

 Denham Springs – Mackenzie Byrd, Joey Carroll, Caitlyn Cutrer, Chantal Dale, Tina Fisher, Kaylie Krepinevich, Lenni Kunert, Tyler O’Donoghue, Rachel Oufnac, Jenson Wall;

 DeQuincy – Staci Maddox;

 DeRidder – James Jones, Shynikia Roberson, Bobby Guichet, Sarah James, Jaclyn Moore, Mikalyn Russell, Airiunna Satchell, Jacob Prudhomme, Rebecca Richmond, Heather Sorton, Scott Stearns, Nathan Stinley;

 Derry – Georgette Hassan;

 Desoto, Texas – Joseph Blazio;

 Destrehan – Jamie Boteler, Kristen Richmond;

 Deville – Brianna Ashley. Joni Burlew, Savannah Carter, Hailey Dennard, Baylie Ducote, Colton Johnson, Morgan McCrory, Marcia Rogers, Hannah Siebeneicher, Miranda Wells;

 Diana, Texas – Kayli Morvan;

 Donaldsonville – Kayla Hernandez;

 Dry Prong – Brandie Arnett, DeAnna Bartlett;

 Dubberly – Phylicia Gatson;

 Duson – Autumn Ritter;

 Edmond, Okla. – Payton Hartwick, Jiyoon Lee, Amanda Stokes;

 El Paso, Texas – Christopher Barron;

 Elizabeth – Kelby Friday;

 Elm Grove – Jaocb Dunn, Tekeia Russell;

 Elmer – Katelynn Cloud;

Elton – Kayla Bellard;

 Elysian Fields, Texas – Jane Harris;

 Eunice – Lea Boone, Trevor Landreneau, Alison Turk;

 Farmerville – Julia Legrande, Kayla Smith;

Ferriday – Callie Shermer, Dalenesha Wimley;

 Flatwoods – Jasmine George;

 Florien – Hillary Charles, Willow Chesson, Noah Parker, Dylan Roberts, Kelcy Sandel, Megan Wagley, Zachary Williams;

 Folsom – Sarah Moore;

 Forney, Texas – Jared Walker;

 Fort Myers, Fla. – Andrea Smarsh;

 Fort Polk – Bailey Bailey, Brittany Chadwick, Laura Gee, Genesis Rondon Torres, Christian Wood;

 Fort Worth – Corban James;

 Fouke, Ark. – Holly Tweedy;

 Franklin – Alison Guidroz, Abriana Lanceslin;

 Franklinton – David Jenkins, Aron Stephens;

 Frierson – Marvaeya Edwards, Clinton Oliver, John Rachal;

 Garland, Texas – Adrianna Velarde;

 Geismar – Elijah Ino-Baptiste;

 Georgetown, Ind. – Ellisa Rohlf;

 Gheens – Samantha Clark;

 Glenmora – Kristopher Devore, Faith Lawrence, Riah Wells, Tiara Baker;

Gloster – Angelica Gandy, Jennifer Simmons;

 Goldonna – Alexander Guillory, Hannah McGrew, Allison Self, Brianna Calhoun’

 Gonzales – Nicole Jones, Courtney LeJeune, Rebecca Marchand;

 Gorman, Texas – Kourtney Seaton;

 Grand Cane – Sandra Kimble;

 Grand Prairie, Texas – Stephen Garrett;

 Granite City, Ill. – Megan O’Brien;

 Gray – Cassie Becnel;

 Grayson – Sabrina Mckeithen;

 Greenwell Springs – Katherine Bryant;

 Greenwood – Ragan Aple;

 Gretna – Rayshaughn Armant, MyDung Hoang, Jasmine Myles, Tachel Neathamer;

 Guaynabo, Puerto Rico – Emily Bencosme;

 Hackberry – Lexie Stine;

 Hammond – Elizabeth Belgard;

 Harahan – Azriel Marshall;

 Harris, Minn. – Matthew Johnson;

 Harvey – Tajalai Evans, Binta Francis;

 Hattieburg, Miss. – Mary Mitchell;

 Haughton – Shannon Barnard, Benny Broadway, Heather Casil, Randi Corley, Bethanie Couch, Haylee Douglass, Tyler Holdsworth, Jackice Hudson, Bethany Knotts, Elizabeth Langley, John Nance, Sherrie Singleton, Hannah Teutsch, Larissa Wells, Kacie Wilkinson, Kaili Williams;

 Heflin – Haley Shepherd;

 Henderson, Texas – Andrew Blackmon, John Floyd, Emily Ortiz;

 Henderson ­– Asha Cormier;

 Hessmer – Ryan Armand, Aslyn Sennie;

 Hineston – Victoria Carroll, Richard Clark, Karlie Taylor;

 Holloman AFB, New Mexico ­– Kayla Bull;

 Homer – Madison Cain;

 Hornbeck – Sarah Ceballos, Tori Dahlhoff, Ronald Guess, Megan Martelle, Miranda Roberts;

 Houma – Jessica Coleman, Rhiannon Dean, Anna Gautreaux, Billy Gorr;

 Houston – Brittany Davis, Alyssa Jacobs, Jordan Rains, Micayla Sorosiak, Madilyn Wood;

 Hugo – Chelsea Caldwell;

Humble – Trevin Whitaker;

 Independence – Sabrina Cook;

 Jackson – Brennan Booth;

 Jeanerette – Kennedi Boutte, Brandy Jackson;

 Jena – Braegan Burlew, Dylan Hebert, Jordan Mitchell, Jerrod Snoddy;

 Jennings – Emily Benoit, Rachel Edwards, Rachelle Edwards, Phillip Gotte, Jacob Guidry Lydia Williams;

 Johnston, Penn. – Morgan Lewis;

 Jonesboro – Jacqueline Blankenship, JaVonna Lawrence, Savannah Maricle, Destini Mathews, Rachel Eichmann;

 Kaplan – Lauren Schexnayder;

 Katy, Texas – Jocelyn Cummons;

 Keithville – Kristin Dall, Shevonte’ Lewis, Michelle McDonnell, Erica Sanders;

 Kenner – Alexis Hollingsworth;

 Kerens, Texas – Brandon Brumbelow;

 Kinder – Konnor Cormier, Nicholas Moldovsky, Logan Terrell;

 King Ferry, N.Y. – Kayleigh Bartlow;

 Kinston, N.C. – Jennifer Freeman;

 La Porte, Texas – Jeremy Hasan

 LaPlace – Jalen Haydel;

 Lacombe – Aaron Hebert;

 Lafayette – Laci Bruno, Michael Carrier, Samantha Donlon, Robert Leray, Emilee Leger, Shenekia McDonald, Robert Middleton, Elizabeth Monaghan, Joy Newman, Shelby Riedel, Hunter Robicheaux, China Young, Richard Clay;

 Lake Charles – Chelsey Bertrand, Wesley Bray, Michael Driskill, Anna Eaglin, Kennedy Fontenot, Kathleen Hilliard, Isaiah Roy, Michael Thomas;

Lake Providence – Forrest Middlebrook;

 Lakehills, Texas – Agusta Stewart;

 Larlace – Benjamin Arie;

 Las Vegas, Nevada – April Ficarrotta

 Lavon, Texas – Berenice Bretado, Matthew Howeth;

 League City, Texas – Hunter Wamack, Christopher Zirkle;

 Lecompte – Ashtin Youngblood, Joann Cody;

 Leesville – Shandreka Atwater, Katlyn Austin, April Beck, Katherine Benson, Kevin Blake, Rebekah Bridges, Jessica Burrell, Victoria Butler, Hannah Coleman, Carter Coriell, Conner Dillon, Raegan Dotson, Haleigh Edinger, Brittany Edwards, Brittany French, Kaitlyn Frisbie, Miranda Fulks, Sean Grady, Jessica Gray, Alexis Greavu, Robert Green, Madison Hall, Morgan Hall, Alexis Harbin, Heather Hickman, Amea James, Caitlan James, Antonia Kettner, Brandon Lynn, James Magee, Karl Marzahl, Sean McCroary, Thomas Merchant, Stephanie Miller, Emily Moore, Brittany paris, Ashley Perondi, Kaplan Rolon, Tiffany Rubin, Jeffrey Santos, Joseph Slaughter, Heather Snell, Linda Strauss, Tabitha Vasquez, Natalie West, Kristin Whistine, Hannah Scott, Bruce Stone;

 Lena – Dillon Guin;

 Little Elm, Texas – Jasmine Ealy;

 Livonia – Alexis Deville;

 Logansport – Kelsey Bolden, Jessica Thompson;

 Longmont, Colo. – Cadence Starr;

 Longview, Texas – Gustavo Corrales Hannah Dunn, Kelli Hickerson, Julie Rawls;

 Loranger – Cambree Bailey;

 Louisville, Miss. – Zachary Wilson;

 Luling – Macie Barrios, Nathan Roth;

 Madisonville – Christian Hastings, Sarahjane Ladut, Melissa Polizzi;

 Magnolia, Texas – Ray Teninty;

 Mandeville – Nicole Albert, Brandon Eberts;

 Mansfield – Erin Campbell, Wesley Caston, Quinterra Clark, Melissa Hanson, Bradley Justice, Jairus Lane, Jessica Miller, Ashley Shelton, Brooke Smith, Shelby Hebert;

 Mansura – Jonah Johnson, Allen St. Romain;

 Many – Hannah Boswell, Toby Bruce, Samantha Carrier, Shelby Clifton, Salvador Cruz Montellano, Haleigh Dockens, Kyle Elliott, Alison Garcia, Moses Gonzalez, Mariam Haider, Clayton Kelley, Adina Manshack, Gabrielle Murphy, Chelsea Parrie, Colten Sepulvado, Shayna Sepulvado, Heather Trichel, Hannah Webb;

 Marksville – Javoanta Batiste, Madeleine Morrow, Jessie Negrotto, Tanner Nugent;

 Marrero – Jay Canova, Jade Duthu, Addison Hinson, Lorena Martin;

 Marshall, Texas – Matayzhsa Dorsey, Abigail Upton, Tristian Zamora;

 Marthaville – Dillon Hagan, Rennee Lirette, Daniel Rachal-Claspill, Ashleigh Wright;

 Maurice – Adele Vincent;

 McKinney, Texas – Jocelyn Scott;

 Melville – Alexis Barker;

 Mesquite, Texas – Jaylen Mumphrey;

 Metairie – Daneil DeVun, Cameron Duhe, Phyllis Leblanc;

 Midlothian, Ill. – Daniel Hlad;

 Minden – Hutton Leppert, Fisher McLemore, Adriana Spurlock;

 Mira – Taylor Andrews;

 Miramar, Fla. – Frank Boudreaux;

 Monroe – Kathryn Adams, Kiara Drumgo, Taylor Hogan, Carrissa Holmes, Brooke Howard, Aaron Hunt, Brittany Jackson, Sidney Jackson, Luke Matherne, Anna McKoin;

 Montegut – Nicole Cohen, Stephanie Cohen;

 Montgomery – Logan Lambert, Morgan McManus, Kaitlyn McShan, Brittany Plunkett, Stephanie Sanders, Bruce Schimmel;

 Montverde, Fla. – Andrea Rodriguez;

 Moreauville – Reginea Alexander;

 Morgan City – Sennet Wiggins;

 Mooringsport – Ariel Kendrick, Samantha Mattson;

 Moss Bluff – Bayleigh Smith;

 Mount Albert, Canada – Emily Sitarz;

 Mt. Hermon – Warren McFarlain;

 Nampa, Idaho – Isaiah Brittell;

 Natchez – Alexis Moses;

 Natchitoches – Jeremy Aaron, Daniella Angulo Martinez, Cass Arnold, Kayla Arnold, Luz Arrieta Jimenez, Maina Ibn Mohammed, Aaron Averett, Abbigal Barton, Samuel Bedgood, Lauren Bennett, Michaela Blackshear, Joshua Bolton, Keaton Booker, Taylor Burch , Heather Burrell, Nathan Cain, Manton Capers, Maria Carmona-Ruiz, Patricia Carrion Salinas, Jonathan Carruth, Emilio Castro, Thomas Celles, Valerie Chadick, Halley Chapa, Dominitra Charles, Brittony Cole, Jeremy Cox, Whitney Cromartie, Kara Davis, Sean Day, Myranda Degraw, Michael Deville, Lydia Doucet, Chasity Dupree, Fred Fontenot, Ashley Fortenberry, Clarisse Gaucel, Bradley Goins, Orlando Gonzalez, Spencer Goodwin, Lawden Halliburton, Tiara Hayes, Saul Hernandez, Joshua Hickman, Kaitlyn Hotz, Anna Hudson, Polina Ivanova, De’Ja Jenkins, Casi Killian, Michael Kingsley, Ashante Knox, Lyndon Knueppel, Haley LaCaze, Carlomongo Leon Jimenez, Dedrick Lewis, Tarah Lott, Taimata Luafalemana, Cody Luce, Meredith Machen, Terrian Marchand, Andrew McAlister, Caitlyn McCauslin, Joseph McClung, Paul Mealancon, Oni Melendez Carrillo, Jasmine Milsap, Amber Minor, Paul Monroy Galeyeva, William Montgomery, Maria Moreno Ponte, Ethan Mouton, Brooklyn Noe, Cameron Normand, Lindsey Prewitt, Korey Rachal, Katelynn Raggio, Darian Raymond, Candice Richardson, Ashley Rico, Antavious Roberson, Tyler Roberts, Aaron Rogers, William Rogers, Kayla Roquemore, Richard Sargee, Courtney Sarpy, Arsenije Savic, Jonathan Simmons, Alexisa Smith, Skyler Speer, Drake Taveney, Margaret Thompson, Austin Townsend, Kristan Valdez, Ricardo Ventura, Angelo Vergara Otero, Christopher Vienne, Garrett Vienne, Ashlyn Vitte, Kenikka Wafer, Jacob Ware, Kaylee Weakley, Matthew Weems, Leighann Westfall, Laurence Wynder, Rashi Yadav, ShaRhonda Zeno, Jasmine Howard, Kiara Murphy, Anna Taveney, Laura Guzman Rodriguez, Alyssa Odom, Rebecca Thomisee;

    New Iberia – Alexondria Gray, Grace Kerns, Natalie Ortega;

 New Llano – Undrea Beasley, Victoria Carbaugh, Nicole Castille, Amanda Hunt, Kaylea Lawrence, Jordan Sellers, Alyssa Turner, Collar Wilson;

 New Orleans – Rayna Brantley, Larionne Clark, Dominique Davis, Marquise Davis, Darlene Fairley, Brielle Mallet, Rishard Winford, Nicholas Landry,

 New Windsor – Mckaila Hughes;

 Nic – Emilija Dancetovic;

 Niceville – Lauren Reilly;

 Noble – Logan Sepulvado;

 Oberlin – Ann Long, Sonia Ortiz, Jonathon Villareal;

 Oil City – Chaddrick Thomas, Erin Weaver;

 Oklahoma City – Jasmine Juarez;

 Olla – Erica Netherland;

 Omro – Jason Kralovetz;

 Opelousas – Jasmine Donatto, Terry Faul, Ashley Kelly;

 Pacifica, Calif. – Nicholas Pierotti;

 Paris, Texas – Zachary Hevron, Cody Vorwerk, Rebekah Wiley;

 Pearl River – Megan Boyanton, Danielle Williams;

 Pelican – Bridgette Howard;

 Pereina Risapalda – Paola Mendez Ruiz;

 Pine Prairie – Dustin Clark;

 Pineville – Aimee Ashworth, Brenden Beavers, Landyn Brossett, Victoria Burns, Carrigen Cain, Payten Collins, Luke Conway, Sydney Duhon, Sarah Flue, Heather Fontenot, Cory Franklin, Lacey Funderburk, Hannah Gaspard, Deaunte Gay, Courtney George, Megan Hendricks, Caleb Howell, Kaitlyn Jackson, Jasmine Johnson, Alyssa Lloid, Allison McCloud, Marissa McMickens, Austin Nelson, Jessica Nichols, Taylor Parro, Michalene Perry, Cinnamon Player, Diane Richey, Loren Ryland, Destiny Zito, Taylor Campbell, Morgan Huddleston John Marino;

 Pitkin – Jessica Jones, Logan McClure, Amber Perkins, Samuel White;

 Plain Dealing – Dormesha Noble, Hunter Horton;

 Plaquemine – Kameron Landry;

 Pleasant Hill – Ja’Licia Franklin, Yasmine Maxie;

 Pollok, Texas – Katelyn Boles;

 Pontotoc, Miss. – Shelby Drope;

 Port Allen – Joseph Anderson, Corey Baskin;

 Prairieville – Carly Bourgeois, Grace Brumfield, Joanna Bunnell, Andrea Gathercole, Gracyn Migues, Brooke Tompkins, Payton Stafford;

 Princeton – Hannah Bradley, Camilla Jones, Madison Kennedy, Ariell Shield, Raynell Shield, LeKayla Smith, Elani Woods;

 Provencal – Carson Custis, Heather Davis;

 Raceland – Paige Parks;

 Rayville – Emily Rawls, Mary Rogers;

 Reno, Nev. – Olivia Marazzo;

 Rhinehart – Bethany Russell;

 Ringgold – Alora Bryant;

 River Ridge ­– Taylor Young;

 Robeline – Arin Ammons, Jonathan Chism, Joshia Dockens, Hannah Hennigan, Megan Maley, Megan Palmer, Madelyn Rachal, Bradley Sparish, Rebecca Sparish, Victoria Thompson;

 Rogers, Ark. – Mary Reed;

 Rosepine – Emilee Johnson;

 Rowlett, Texas – Daniel Miner;

 Ruston – Seth Hartsfield, Irene Hild, Maya Robertson, Emarea Scott;

 Saline – Cheyenne Roberts;

 San Pedro Sula, Cortes – Jonathan Andino Madrid, Cesia Corrales, Bella Triminio Gutierrez;

 Santa Rosa Beach, Fla. – Angel Migues;

 Saskatoon, Canada – Loren MacLennan;

 Shiatook, Okla. – Sadie Fudge;

 Shongaloo – Cassidy Lablue;

 Shreveport – Daytreiona Allen, Ashlee Arkansas, Yasmeen Bader, Shakendra Bailey, Denisha Bankhead, Jessica Bollingham, Alyssa Bonacci, Ethan Branch, Delores Brown, Meosha Brown, Rakeisha Brown, Caitlin Bruce, Michael Cade, Charlie Caldwell, Jessie Cardenas, Amanda Charles, Breonnica Collins, Kendall Crosby, Garrison Davis, ShaKendra Davis, John Davidson, Courtney Dehart, Kevin Denks, Miya Douglas, Kristina Doyal, Lauren Edwards, Takayla Edwards, Ellison Brandy, Amye Flair, Sean Flair, Zachary Fussell, Jade Gaines, Rayvin Gaudet, Cassidy Giddens, Courtney Giddens, Courtnei Green, Elaina Guerrero, Natalie Hirsch, Brea Housley, Madyson Istre, Randall Johnston, Cavonte Jones, Chardunae Jones, Nathan Jones, Colton Kennedy, Tradeya King, Alexis Kochinskey, Mallory LaLena, Katie Layfield, Bryan Lee, Ziming Li, Katherine Lind, Sarah Long, Chassidy McMillon, Christine Mettenbink, Najah Mitchell, Terrye Moore, Katlynn Morris, Joann Nelson, Hillary Nicholls, Emily Paxton, Haley Peace, Jared Perkins, Gertrud Rankin, Shelby Reddy, Patricia Reed, Harrison Reeves, Jiminia Rhymes, Kierstin Richter, Keyonna Roberson, Ashley Santos, Lyshaqwanna Shandle, Mary Sibley, Richard Sloan, Kendall Sneed, Chris Spence, Christa Sprawls, Cynthia Terrell, Hannah Wagener, Kayla Waller, Brandon Williams, Donald Williams, Shamolia Williams, Krashanta Barrett, Naterria Davis, Moriah Heinsius, Jesse Kortus, Breyonna Thompson, Kathryn Cunningham, Deanna Peveto, Yao Wang;

 Simmesport – Kimani Batiste, Olivia Draper, Bailie Marsh;

 Simpson – David Marquis, Mackenzie Strickland;

 Slidell – Katie Buttner, Katherine Gallinghouse, Theresa Sharp;

 Spring Dale, Ark. – Sabrina Bailey;

 Spring, Texas – Hailee Rhodes;

 Spring Lake, N.C. – Jeflyn Winstead;

 St. Francisville – Joshua Mann, Ryan Reed;

 St. Gabriel – Brooke Griffiths;

 St. James – Kaci Cavalier;

 St. Martinville – Autumn Blanchard, Blake Blanchard;

 St. Maurice – Breona Hollingsworth;

 Stone Mountain, Ga. – Ryland Francis;

 Stonewall – Jaci May;

 Sugartown – Madison Budnik;

 Sulphur – Lillian Broussard, Derek Henry, Bralyn James, Jennifer Watzlavik;

 Tallulah – Frances Ferguson;

 Taylor, Texas – Jake English;

 Terrytown – Katlynn Klein;

 Texarkana, Texas – Sydney Cowgill, Daphne Hammett;

 Tioga – Hannah Pusateri;

 Tomball, Texas – Kylie Spencer;

 Trout – Jessilyn Sandifer;

 Tyler, Texas – De’Shayln Jones;

 Vacherie ­– Chelsea Kliebert;

 Ventress – Racheal Gaude;

 Vidalia ­– Anna Cowan, Zoie Gillespie, Evandria King;

 Ville Platte – Hannah Gallow, Natalie Morrison, Regis Tezeno;

 Vinton – Shae Cramer, Madison Zaunbrecher;

 Violet – Briana Acosta;

 Vivian ­– Chase Lewis;

 Wahiawa, Hawaii – Taylor Camidge;

 Walker – Saxon Bumpus, David Kolb;

 Waskom, Texas – Jonas Richardson;

 Waynesville, Mo. – Jessica Rodger;

 Welsh – Alisha Ledoux;

 West Monroe – Madelyn Bryan, Laura Lovell;

 Westwego – Katie Desalvo;

 Wetmore, Colo. ­– Diane Norbury;

 White Castle – Gavin Landry;

 Whitesboro, Texas – Guy Butts;

 Winnfield – Melissa Godwin, Ili Habash, Ieishlia Lynch, Laci Parker, Kellie Smedley;

Winnsboro – Hunter Cooper;

 Woodway, Texas – Chrishard Buhl;

 Woodworth – Slade Allen, Laura Galbreath;

Yaroslavl, Russia – Polina Mutel;

 Youngsville – Randall Blair, Bridgett Landry, Matthew Leleux;

 Yukon, Okla. – Brook Wray;

 Zachary –  Keith Etue, Courtney Page, Caitlyn Thibodaux, Dshanti Walker

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¤ Trish Clarice Riddle y "Lady" Mary Ann Arkham

¤ Vanessa Octavia Riddle y Tom Spencer Peters

¤ Delphinie Savannah Riddle y Septimus Ezekiel Weasley

¤ Dominika Hazel Levin y Thomas Downey Richardson

¤ Vincent Alexander Levin y Daphne Rosie Campbell

¤ Niven Finnian Levin y River Aura Stone

¤ Malorie Estella Levin y Ivan Adonis Novak

¤ Severus Tobias Snape y Ulaz Devereux Snape

¤ Ryou Nathan Snape y Krolia Serenity Kogane

¤ Jason Ezra Voorhees y Michael Gideon Myers

¤ Diana Madeline Voorhees y Mason Samuel Kimble

¤ Lucius Abraxas Malfoy y Narcissa Meissa Black

¤ William Joseph Dixon y Cassandra Allegra Lewis

¤ Vergil Amon Sparda y Faith Mackenzie Myron

¤ Dante Alastor Sparda y Hope Catherine Myron

¤ Victor Jethro Grace y Ryan Christopher Everett

¤ Aurelia Peregrine Grace y Sebastian Artemis Jensen

¤ Ian Mason Jackson y Bellona Damara Huxley

¤ Ada Demetria Jackson y Azura Jasmine Brooks

¤ Kitty Xanthe Jackson y Charlotte Marcellina Donovan

¤ Sansa Calypso Corvinus y Thomas Nicholas Parkinson

¤ September Lev Corvinus y Tanith Amara Walker

¤ Flora Pandora Snape y Xenophilius Leland Lovewood

¤ Thora Margot Fowler y Marc Anthony Marcelly

¤ Lyra Beatrix Fowler y Lorenzo Finnian Donnelly

¤ Morgan Ariella Fowler y Nolan Cassander Delaney

¤ Ruby Hilda Dollins y Miles Oliver Corwin

¤ Luna Stephanie Dollins y Theon August Dresden

¤ Noah Jonah Dollins y Helena Roxane Ansel

¤ Stanford Nathaniel Dollins y Nita Evelyn Paxton

¤ Mortimer Morphin Dollins y Martin Jonathan Flint

¤ Elizabeth Tallulah Dollins y Valens Vatlos Braken

¤ Janeth Mirella Dollins y Stefano Nova Fox

¤ Arya Eloise Kane y Constatine Nikolai Hudson

¤ Angelette Lucille Kane y Yuri Vladimir Ivanovich

¤ Azrael Finnian Kane y Luciana Angela Ortiz

¤ Niven Ezra Kane y Mikhaila Juniper Orion

¤ Carlisle Damien Kane y Serena Laurel Ranger

¤ Basilius Sebastian Prince y Ida Scarlett Lennox

¤ Felix Robert Prince y Jane Ophelia Miller

¤ Jasper Wyatt Prince y Marlene Elora Lawson

¤ Edward Henry Prince y Selene Stella Harper

¤ Adrien Scott Snape y Calliope Ivory Bronx

¤ Raphael Patrick Snape y Mirah Colette Cain

¤ Richard Lawrence Snape y Galilea Lyra Dexter

¤ Francine Eliza Snape y Michael Francis Oakley

¤ Connie Violet Snape y Tallulah Vera Lake

¤ Melissa Barbara Snape y Eugene Jordan Morrinson

¤ Morticia Moira Snape y Kiyoko Asahina

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¤ Jeremy Vincent Dream y Sabrina Addison Riley

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¤ Adeliza Morigan Afton y Emmett Blake Cartet

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¤ Minerva Rowena Afton y Leonard Robert Leighton

¤ Doria Judith Orville y Dominic Alexander Edevane

¤ Ryan Joshua Orville y Alice Isidora Jones

¤ Agatha Rachel Orville y Jeremiah Andrew Evans

¤ Carlotta Katherine Snape y Owen Stephen O'Kelly

¤ Ethan Elijah Harley y Larissa Daphne Davis

¤ Giovanni Mortimer Harley y Ariel Danica O'Ryan

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¤ Dominika Valda Murphy y Arthur Russel Glenwood

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¤ Victoria Hilda Orson y Sabine Belladona Volkov

¤ Margot Elizabeth Orson y Pietro Leroy Carrington

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¤ River Stella Blackwood y Jasper August Moore

¤ Chloe Henrietta Blackwood y Griffin Cyrus Lexington

¤ Vanessa Tabitha Blackwood y Miles Herman Goodwin

¤ Ivan Septimus Blackwood y Rosie Olive Brown

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