No point in hiding any more

[xp_daytripper]

Since the secret's out, there's no point in trying to hide it any more. Alison, any chance we could go shopping tomorrow afternoon after I get back from Stonewall? There's a swimsuit that needs buying - learning to swim in shorts and t-shirt is bloody difficult. Just... nothing too skimpy, all right? Hell will freeze over before I ever get into a bikini.

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Re: *stops to think*

[x-tarot.livejournal.com]

Forgiveness is not so easy as just asking for it.

Even for Catholics, we have to work at it.

Nothing is stopping you from building a fortune and name of your own.

Well, realistically..

[x-empath.livejournal.com]

There are many roadblocks to that sort of success.

But I'm working on them. Slowly, and in my own way, but I am working on them.

The fortune I can possibly build. But not the name. The name stretches back to Imperial Rome herself. It has an age, a gravity, that cannot be duplicated by fiat.

But all of this is really very irrelevant. Maybe it would help to hear of your childhood, to hear how other people here were raised.

Might help me to understand, to be able to tell what is acceptable and normal and what is not.

Manuel

Re: Well, realistically..

[x-tarot.livejournal.com]

And yet, you still have your name. Unless you are Manuel Nobody now?

The fortune.. Manuel, we should talk about that when you have some time.

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As for my childnood - you sound like Dr. Samson when you ask that.

I suppose it was normal enough, but I do not even know where to begin.

I spend far too much time with Samson

[x-empath.livejournal.com]

But I don't want to be crippled forever.

And what about my efforts to raise a fortune? Does this offend you somehow?

Start at the beginning. You're French, obviously. From Lyons, if my admittedly spotty memory serves? What was it like?

I grew up in Basque country. It's a beautiful part of Spain, just on our side of the Pyranees. I learned to ride, and fence, and travelled all over Europe with fat - with Alphonso. I've met my King, and played chess with the Crown Prince. I've swam in the Mediterranean.

Not much to tell. A fairly standard upper-class upbringing.

Manuel

Re: I spend far too much time with Samson

[x-tarot.livejournal.com]

Your efforts to raise a fortune do not offend me at all. I am not sure quite how to explain. You can read the stock pages, yes?

I grew up just outside of Lyon, though for all purposes, we lived there. I suspect my perceptions of it are coloured, having lived there all my life until moving here. It was a good place to grow up - there are a lot of museams and things to see. My father and I used to visit them, which I suppose is part of why I have such an interest in history classes now.

My parents are Catholic, and sent me to a religious school - my education was not that different from what we have here, with the exception of daily religion classes. And our teachers are not old, bad-tempered nuns. I suspect this was more my mother's doing than my father's, as she is rather more religious than he is.

I imagine my upbrining was fairly normal, with perhaps the exception of the overly religious mother. I do not have any brothers or sisters, but I have a cousin, and grandparents, and an aunt and uncle.