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Jackie

She always hated the music industry bullshit, doing appearances & making videos, she always said it was just about playing, but now she's finally being allowed time off from Bill's promotional circus, the freedom to try to live the 'normal' life she said she wanted, and she's feeling jealous & left out, knowing Nico is shooting a video this afternoon, while she's at the market, picking out tomatoes. At least she still gets recognized by staff & treated with the deference accorded to all celebrities in this town: she's not a 'has-been'.

Of course, Jackie isn't the only star who shops on Sunset Strip, but nonetheless she is taken aback to see Mary Strong enter the shop. The actress has won several Oscars: people that famous never shop for themselves. Even Jackie hasn't done her own shopping in ages: today she's out on a whim, to get away from the empty house & it's solitary shore.

She feels a bit ridiculous, approaching the actress, gushing & praising her. Jackie is always embarassed when people do this to her. Most of Jackie's personal heroes are musicians, Mary Strong stands out as the sole actress in the group. Her roles were so inspiring, her movies always made Jackie want to go out & conquer the world.

"Oh, I know who you are," Mary says, her voice rolling & gorgeous & strangely, Italian-sounding, like Nicolas, "You are Jacklyn, I danced with your Nicolas at Julie & Sam's wedding," she says, and Jackie tries to make sense of it all. "Nico didn't tell me he met you at that wedding," she says, thinking out loud. Mary laughs, "Well, I'm sure, it was of little consequence to him, Bill had him quite occupied most of the evening. But I'm working on my accent, for the film I'm doing, so I used the opportunity to study his speech." She certainly has the accent down, Jackie thinks, like she's Nico sister.

Mary tells her she comes here for the organic fruit smoothies, "I live on them," Mary laughs, "I rarely eat solid food while I'm shooting. Let me buy one for you, they're quite invigorating."

It's so incredible, she's actually having a smoothie in the mall with Mary Strong! It seems like they are breaking a natural law, doing something so mundane & human in front of the public eye. The actress looks her over while she sucks on her smoothie, Jackie feels like a supplicant waiting for her queen's attention: Mary radiates an aura of command. And she looks incredible...Jackie hopes she looks that good when she gets older. More smoothies, she decides, less whiskey.

"You really are a dear, I'm so pleased to have met you," Mary says, taking her hands as she bids her goodbye.

Since Mary is a 'Somebody', she wouldn't normally show up Downtown. I summoned her using the 'quick & dirty' juniper bush teleporter at Sim Logical. The florist & gardener NPCs and their carts are from C&C Enterprises. They not only sell flowers & vegetables, fruits & seeds, they also interact with each other. They are in love & it's very sweet & funny sometimes to watch them. I can only imagine the torment of the poor Smoothie guy, trapped behind his smoothie cart, watching them all day....LOL. Also, the flowers etc sold by these NPCs are not just the normal HD/UL items, please visit the site & read all the info: Gardening the C&C way to see how amazing this hack is.

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