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John Thomas Orphan didn't wait for the sun to go down before he started haunting the new tenants in the building where he died a horrible, mysterious, and lonely death. Only the cat noticed him, though.
Lucas Iana stops by the residence of his friend Sharla to greet her brother Tommy, express condolences over the death of his girlfriend, and size him up as a potential Urele-Oresha-Sham. Tommy, a Knowledge sim fixated on the idea of learning enough about life, death, and the universe to bring Spring back from the dead, isn't interested. (I know Ottomases are attractiveness-challenged, but WTF? Tommy wasn't a bad looking teen but this new YA face will take some getting used to. If his arc goes as expected, he'll withdraw more and more, and I'll gradually shag him out till you can't see him under the hair. If he meets somebody who can snap him out of the obsession, though, I don't know how I'll signal that he's taking an interest in making him presentable again - he looks too much like somebody who never sleeps or shaves!)
Lucas is from the wrong side of the tracks and a simmigrant to boot, so his girlfriend's father - a man born into so much wealth that he considers going to parties and collecting insider information to be a job - would like an eye kept on him. Orlando Centowski is also old money, but he rejects with scorn the notion of spying on a brother!
All systems have a point at which they can't take the strain. Cooper Hawkins has been running to cover every family crisis by himself for years, as well as teaching a class that's way too big for him. When his Aunt Hilary dies, it hits him hard. He was never that close with her, but - his Pa is older than Hilary was! And there's not even a cat to hug, because the cat's dead, too! He's never had much faith in the gobbledygook spouted by the counselors at school, but Ginger calls a grief therapist and makes him go. "I'm allowed to feel awful when a relative dies, you know," he says defensively.
"You're allowed to feel awful without having that bad a trigger, too," the therapist points out. "You don't have to let every negative emotion build up inside until something gives you an excuse to let it all come out."
"Look, I've got responsibilities!"
"Yes, and one of them is letting your wife and children help you. They're not made of glass, you know. Has if ever occurred to you that Ginger might be less nervous if she had to be strong for you once in awhile, just for a change?"
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