| - I was embarrassed by WHY he built the castle. I told him... (and try not to laugh at the speech Lol!).... �Why this is ridiculous! Why you�re a foolish man indeed!� Then Mom heard Patrick say � and this (his speech) sounded weird to Mom � �And says I in reply � �What fool be I, had I let the jewel slip away? Then who would have been the more foolish?�� Then Mom picked up something like � �The moment I saw you. From that moment on, nothing was in my control. The Fates took over. I was compelled to do anything but comply.�
- Mom felt he was married twice before he married me. One�s death was an accident, and the other died from a disease. A plague or something. He had children from those marriages that weren�t my age, but they were nearly my age. They got along well with me, and called me �Stepmother.� (Funny thing is that in my story, the main character is a widowed father that's much older than the heroine). - Patrick and I had 2 girls. They didn�t have blonde hair like him. They had very dark hair. Patrick then said �French� to Mom in a teasing, laughing way. He said it with a sort of laughing smirk. Our children were very close in age and had VERY long hair. |
| - The swans were a big deal because with each child we had, he gave me a swan. Lol! That�s why Mom kept seeing a black swan and a white swan. We had 2 children, so we had 2 swans. Mom said she thought that Patrick thought he was very creative/poetic when he came up with that, but that I thought it was a little silly. Lol! (This is funny � in the sequel to my first novel, Joseph says they�ll plant a new rose tree with each child they have. Now� I did sort of borrow that idea from the Avonlea books and tv series, but I have always LOVED the idea. So maybe there�s a deeper reason why that always struck me as an awesome idea. Only in my book I didn�t use swans, but rose trees. And Patrick did tell you that I loved roses).
- Then Mom asked me to make a note for myself to look up what the symbolism for a swan is. Also, I named our home myself, and it had something to do with swans. - I asked Mom about how I heard something that sounded like �Chamrain Lake� in my head when I woke up one morning. She said she thinks what I really heard was �Shimmering Lake.� Or �A Shimmering Lake.� (It may have sounded like �Chamrain� b/c of his accent). |
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| - I named our home myself, and it had something to do with swans. She said the name I chose was sort of a joke. Like Patrick thought the castle he built for us was so grand, etc. but I thought it was a bit too much. Lol! A bit �Goddy� I guess. I called it �Castle Cygnet.� Mom asked me to look up what Cygnet meant. (I had only heard of �Signet Classics� � the publishing company. Lol!) But Mom and I didn�t know what it meant, so we looked it up on the internet. I was AMAZED. It said a Cygnet was:
A juvenile swan, traditionally thought of as being �ugly.� (See �The Ugly Duckling�) So� I referred to our home lovingly and jokingly; as �A Cygnet.� Lol! - �Adelle� � one of our daughter�s names, named for my grandmother. Mom kept hearing something like �La Fon..� Like a French word for a �Fountain.� Then she heard �Spring.� Like an underground spring. We looked it up on the internet and found that �De Fontaine� translated as both �fountain� AND �spring� (an underground spring). - I mentioned to Mom that I would love to see where I used to live. She heard Patrick tell her �It�s not there anymore.� Lol! I guess he didn�t understand that I was talking about wanting to see it in A DREAM. Lol! Not in real life. (Even in that dream I had, it was in RUINS � big time). |
| - Mom said my name was not �Becky,� but it was a form of that. She kept hearing something like �Bacchae.� We looked that up, and it mentioned something about The God Apollo�.which reminded Mom of when he mentioned us �looking at the Heavens� (in the Automatic Handwriting)�. and the story �Euripedes, The Bacchae.�
- Patrick died of old age. He lived to a very old age. - Mom kept hearing, again, �De Fontaine (Bleu).� She thought it was one word. She guessed it meant �Blue Springs.� It was a surname. |