VLVL [8] When BV possessed her

Terrance F. Flaherty Lycidas at worldnet.att.net
Tue Jan 26 23:03:54 CST 1999


Not charmed, I'M sure.

Doug Millison wrote:

> Does Frenesi, as Paul says, lead "a charmed life."  She's separated from a
> daughter she longs to know, realizes the sickening depths she sank to in
> betraying her youthful ideals, lonely, miserable,  finds herself persecuted
> again by the devils she's already run away from once. She wanted to lead a
> charmed life, to live in that brilliant white light, but the choices she
> made rendered that impossible. Despite all that, Prairie, Zoyd, the rest of
> her family take her back in, redeem her, warts and all, through their love.
> This is when her "charmed life" begins, when she is saved by their love.
>
> D O U G  M I L L I S O N  [http://www.online-journalist.com]
> "I didn't remember the cherry chocolates."
>     --Bill Clinton, Aug. 17, 1998




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