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Round 9: Days 41-45

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Chiara and Vincenzo wanted to do something nice for their grandkids so they took Arianna, Caterina, Filippo and Augustin to Central Park.

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Shake some action

Round 9: Days 41-45

Last update: Nelson and Gina/Emmy

Next updates: Gina/Emmy

Emmy is the latest resident at Twilight Senior Living Complex.

She's not sure how she'll like it here. She only vaguely knows Gina and has never met Nelson. Amazingly, given how often she drops by on everyone uninvited.

She's on the phone to Pascal here and she looks a little concerned. He's just moved into his first apartment and is all alone. He's the baby of the family.

Emmy's good friend Vincenzo drops by the next day. I made it a point to make Emmy friends with all the influential people in Sullivan (as a Criminal Mastermind) and the Mayor's husband would be pretty influential.

Not sure what Nelson was trying to do here. Nothing romantic because Gina was right there and didn't get upset. Whatever it was, Emmy didn't have a great first impression of Nelson.

She consents to a game of Mahjong anyway.

Meanwhile, at the Clarkes, Nelson rushes outside when he sees Floyd Lane, his daughter Drusilla's live-in boyfriend, pass by. They've never met, so he's not going to give up this opportunity. Weirdly though, considering it's 11:30 in the morning, Floyd tells Nelson it's getting late and he should head home. Right then.

Looks like Nelson's time has run out though and he never will get a chance to interrogate Floyd.

Gina was really upset - much more upset than any other grieving spouse I've seen. She sobbed for ages.

Best friend Noelle feels it's best if she stays a while to make sure Gina is okay and that she eats something. Similar to what I did with Emmy, I tried to make the Clarkes friends with all the Bohemian social group townies.

She's a good friend. Kind of a homewrecker but a good friend.

Finally, a funny:
You'll need to click that to read it (and I just realised I forgot to crop it, so you can see my lovely messy desktop in the background). I'd never seen that memory before and thought it was quite apt for Galen!

Notes:

• I confess that I skipped through much of this session. I played Emmy for 2 days and then aged her 3. Then I went to the Clarkes, aged them up 2 days and played them for 3. The whole old folks' home thing is not working for me - it's not making them any more interesting. Next rotation, I'll probably move Gina and Emmy in with their Romance Sim sons and they can make nuisances of themselves in their apartments. I'm going to go back to keeping the oldies with their families, as I've done in previous hoods.

Candlelight's first wedding

Round 8: Days 36-40

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Lukas and Raffaella finally have enough benefit points to get a secondary aspiration. I usually roll for these, so Lukas gets Romance and Raffaella gets Pleasure. This was the first thing she wanted to do. So easy to keep happy!

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Vincenzo and Chiara meet (most of) their grandchildren

Round 8: Days 36-40

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I really do find elders quite boring. It doesn't matter how interesting they are one day before they age, they are boring to me at 6pm the next day. Seeing Vincenzo dance like this, in an old man robe, makes it just that little bit less boring.

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The Morettis hit Cape Elizabeth

Round 5: Days 21-25

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Chiara Moretti decided to celebrate winning the mayoral election (another LTW achieved) by buying a holiday house at Cape Elizabeth and taking her family there on vacation. Even Simona came, seeing she had a break from college. Here they are at the boardwalk, with Raffaella being the typical pouty teen. It hailed for almost the entire first day - this pic was taken the minute the sun came out, at about 5pm.

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More from the Morettis

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How cute was Raffaella as a toddler? She's still pretty cute now. She's a Nature Sim, by the way, so this was very fitting.

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La Famiglia Moretti

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The Morettis are my Italian family.
The matriarch is Lidia.

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Vincenzo Moretti

Name: Vincenzo Rodolfo Moretti
Life Stage: Elder (died of natural causes)
Personality: 4-7-8-3-3
Romantic History: None
Parents: Papa Giuseppe and Lidia Moretti
Siblings: None
Partner: Chiara Moretti (deceased)
Children: Simona Moretti, Raffaella Novak
Education: High school graduate
Job: Celebrity Chef (Culinary)
Previous Employment: None
Businesses Owned: None
Aspiration: Popularity
Lifetime want: Become Celebrity Chef (achieved)
Hobby: Sports

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