Where the Girls Are (75)

Jean Simmons passed away yesterday at the age of 80. I am only passingly familiar with her work, namely her role as Elizabeth Collins Stoddard in the remake of Dark Shadows in the 1990s, but from scanning her IMDB page, she certainly did more than just that.
And apparently there’s a huge hole in my movie [...]

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Bought

One bottle of red calligraphy ink.
One bottle of blue calligraphy ink.
One red Speedball pen holder.
One blue Speedball pen holder.
One nib, a C-3, I believe.
And one very tenuous connection to Dark Shadows: when Willie met Maggie for the first time, at the Blue Whale, I believe, he called her Speedball.

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Excerpt

Willie raised his hand to knock on the heavy wooden door of Collinwood, a feeling of dread in the pit of his stomach and took a deep breath as his knuckles connected with the door. “There ain’t no turnin’ back now, sugar,” he whispered and squeezed Maggie’s hand.
She nodded solemnly. “I know,” she whispered back.
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