Dear Mom, Oh, thank you, thank you, thank you for agreeing to the move. The rental house on campus is the greatest. We've ALL moved in. Alon and Randy and Ivy and Sophie and me and Dalila. Doreen graduated already. We only shared the house with her for one semester. Now she's living with Uncle Drake's son, Egan. Did you know that? They're in love. They'll probably get married sooner or later. We've got four girls crammed into one room and the two guys in the other bedroom. Doesn't matter. We moved the dresser into the hall at the top of the stairs. We're all practicing at cooking different recipes although we do eat spaghetti a lot. Yes, Mom, we're studying hard and doing our homework. We all have good grades. Griffin left that old heap of a car here and we plan to celebrate the end of the semester with a trip downtown. I promise to watch out for Dalila. We're together all the time now, for pete's sake. We'll watch out for each other. Promise. Here's a picture of all of us. We look stupid because Doreen fiddled around with the camera for so long that the smiles on our faces started to hurt. Sophie (behind Dalila) and Randy (to my left) had to go to class and were getting kind of mad, but she snapped the picture just in the nick of time. Love, Emmy
Dear Emmeline, I love the picture of all of you. I have put it on the stand next to my bed. I enjoyed having you and Dalila for dinner the other night. So did George and Esther. Those two children are so ambitious. They both have after school jobs. You asked if I had retired yet and now I can tell you that I have. It was on my mind more and more so I finally decided to take it easy. Griffin and Felicia have a baby boy now and I can spend some time with him. Felicia had a fairly easy pregnancy. The baby is healthy and his name is Matthew. A solid, down-to-earth name, befitting his solid, down-to-earth and responsible parents. It's a house full, now, as you can imagine, with me, Candida, George and Esther, Griffin and Felicia, and now Matthew. Here's a picture of me and Sheila Mae's baby Corbin. It's convenient having them next door. Then there's you and me with our hamburgers on Saturday evening. Then a nice one of me that I thought you might like to have. And George and Griffin taken on George's birthday. They both look so much like your Dad it makes my heart ache. I miss him terribly. I thought I had one of me and Griffin's baby Matthew but my drawer full of pictures is such a disorganized mess I can't find it. One of these days I'll sort them all out into albums. Love, Mom P.S. I'm not worried about you and Dalila now. But please be careful when you go downtown. I hear things, probably nonsense, but there's no need to take unnecessary risks. By the way, if you want to shop for some new clothes while you're down there I'll contribute. You always seem to be in the same sweater. We can afford something new, Sweetheart. Love again, Mom
Dear Mom, I took some pictures of the house we're renting. It is truly nice. My studies are going very well. I'm in my second semester as a junior. Almost done and then my senior semester starts. I'm so excited. I'll be home soon. The pictures are of our bedrooms, the guys' and the girls' rooms. You can't see Sophie's bed because it's behind me. Then there's the kitchen and the living room. Cheerful, isn't it. We pooled our money and got bright carpet to help us stay awake when we're studying and doing homework. The last picture is of Alon clowning around. He's such a ham in front of a camera. I adore him, Mom, and expect to spend the rest of my life with him. Such a hard thing to imagine, I think, sharing your entire life for ever and ever with someone. Love and hugs, Emmy
Sybil Sparrow, 77, An Acclaimed MuralistSybil Sparrow, an acclaimed muralist, died suddenly on Monday evening during her grandson's birthday party at her Baltimore home. She was 77. After graduating from Academie Le Tour, Sybil worked as a fashion photographer but was better known in the Baltimore metropolitan area for her wall murals. She retired at 73 and in her retirement enjoyed bowling, pool, card games, swimming and quiet evenings with her family. Sybil is survived by a sister, Elizabeth Furley, her daughters, Sheila Mae Mace, Emmeline, Dalila, and Esther Sparrow, her son Griffin and two grandsons, Corbin Mace and Matthew Sparrow. Sybil will be interred in the mausoleum on the family estate, along with the remains of her husband George McCarthy, pending completion of repairs to the local church cemetery. Pictures provided by family members to this newspaper show Sybil in the arms of her mother Dagmar, Sybil at college with her cousins Allison and Neala Hogan, Sybil with newborn daughter Emmeline and, later, with grandson Corbin Mace and his father Marcel. The last is a photo taken in her home in Baltimore shortly before her death.
The Residents of River Valley Humbly send their condonlences to the Sparrow family in their time of loss. Sybil was a fine, kind woman, an inspiration to all Sims everywhere. She will be missed. (sniff, sniff, here's some roses, sniff, okay I think I'm gonna cry, ummm, I've got to go powder my nose."
Yeah, I'm going to miss ol' Sybil. For a while I didn't like her much since she put two of her babies on the floor and walked away from them after they were born. She ignored their crying. It was Uncle Drake who finally reacted and picked them up. Sure, it was a bug in the house, but STILL, she was their mother and I expected more of her. But in the end, she was a good mother, and wife, too. She quickly forgave her husband George for his messing around with Candida and then raised baby George as her own. You gotta respect that.
The community of Lasher's Bowl would also like to extend their sympathies. After reading about the family and coming to know them, this is quite a shock. Condolances to all the Sparrow family members! =( (What is even more crazy is that I feel more for YOUR Sims than I do my own!!)
(Maybe I feel too much myself, and it shows. Looking for pictures of Sybil to post brought a tear to my eye. Good thing I don't live alone. I could lose touch with reality. ) The Sparrow family thanks all friends and neighbors from near and far for their flowers and condolences. The family is at home and visitors are welcome.
I understand the tears, Lynet. Remember when I posted this: http://forums.worldsims.org/showthread.php?t=4314&highlight=RIP+Napoleon+Bonypart I was crying!! Actually crying as I looked over his life and remembered all the fun times I had with him.
I only just finished reading all of your posts, Lynet, so now I can extend my condolences...though I don't quite feel the same about my sims. Then again, I haven't played with the same family for more than a month since last year. Maybe I should try harder to live through more generations.
I'm the same way, I tend to get bored of my sims after too long and move on to a new family. I especially get bored if they reach their lifetime aspiration or max out their skills to quickly. While it's nice because they get promotions quicker, there's nothing left to do with some of them. I do have a couple of families I'm attached to, but no one has made it to elder stage yet with them. Honestly I've only had one sim pass away due to old age, and that was the old Spector woman in Strange town, when I was just experimenting with the families. Villa Springs State University sends it condolences to the Sparrow family and our sister college Academie Le Tour for the loss. Sybil will be sorely missed by all. In memory, V.S.S.U. is sending a donation in Sybil's name to Academie Le Tour in hopes of keeping her memory alive.
I do remember Napoleon Bonypart! And your memorial gave me the idea of gathering pictures of Sybil although I didn't have as many good ones of her as you had of Napoleon. I have a wagonload of pictures but anything good of Sybil I'd already put up on the board. Anyway, the Sparrow Saga will continue because I can't help myself. And now that the stabilizing influence of the matriarch is gone, who knows what troubles they'll all get into.
It was hard to let Sybil go. I definitely debated letting her have some of the elixir but decided that Nope! Time to move on because there's another generation coming along. Now Dalila is another issue altogether. I'm dreading losing that girl. I don't know if I'll be strong enough. I've become particularly attached to her, even though she hasn't figured too much in the story lately, she's there waiting for her one true love to appear. And I'm trying to figure out who is suitable. I'm feeling VERY protective. Maybe I'll have to go and create someone special. By the way, Sybil was the name given my mother at birth by her mother. But my mother was then adopted and given the name she grew up with--Mary. This grandmother by blood (whom no one ever met) left her baby in the hospital and disappeared. My mother's hair was dark brown but hospital records describe the young woman who gave birth to her as having long blond hair (my brother has been doing research.) I've always thought the name Sybil to be an interesting and slightly myterious name because of that history. This is completely unrelated to anything in the game but I thought I'd share the name's history with y'all.
I started this family shortly after getting the game, as part of the Legacy challenge (now long abandoned.) I stopped playing with them when I started working with another family and making a Sim movie. I was MONTHs on that project. Then I started the Dear Emmy thread and got caught up with the Sparrow family again. I believe that when you get a story all wrapped around a family group (as you have now started to do in your own story thread) they get a lot more interesting. Emmy and Dalila are particularly special to me because the whole family almost died due to a serious bug in the household. This 'bug' is still alive and it's living in one of the other houses. Eventually I'll have to bulldoze that house but not yet because another story character lives there at the moment.
Yes, I am beginning to get obsessed with my Bones family, although Laura's personality in the story is a lot different than her personality in the game. I've also done a lot with her, as well--she's already married to Komei Tellerman, is pregnant, and has a much bigger house! I don't know how I'm going to continue typing the story at the snail's pace it's going along. Maybe I'll turn the first few threads into an introduction, and then advance it to like 5 years later...
No kidding. In your story she's oozing more personality then some real people I know. I've married off Komei, too, early in my set up of the Baltimore neighborhood. He looks a lot better with a shorter haircut and new clothes. I haven't played that family much (blame it on his boring wife.) They've become the neighborhood NPCs, walking the streets along with a bunch of other unplayed characters I lost interest in.
LOL Lyn. I've also given a few NPC's a serious makeover. Most notably Ricky Cormier and Tosha Go who went to uni and eventually married each other. They have a cute little girl and Tosha in particular seems to turn up at the happening events in town. They both look better with nicer hair styles ...
Yes, Ricky Cormier is a nice polite boy, even though I think he's a romance sim, but he looks like such a dweeb with the clothes and haircut he has. I can't get past them ... I was considering having some of the NPCs go to college and become college NPCs instead. You know, send them and then not play them unless they become marriage material ... not sure if I'm going to do that yet. It would be nice to give some of them makeovers!
I took a bunch of the neighborhood NPC teens to college, including Rickie Cormier, Tosha Go and Meadow Thayer. I've lost track of them--they're hanging out somewhere. It was just amusing to cut their hair and dress them up. I thought Meadow was kind of ugly at first, but makeup did the trick. Now she's married to Cleve Cox and I think I have a picture somewhere ... . Yes, I do, although you can't see her very clearly.
