September 1974
The convent was in the middle of nowhere. There were a lot of Oak Trees and old buildings. It was beautiful to look at but wasn't a place to go if you wanted to party. All Angelica could think about was Jack. She missed him terribly. There was no TV or phone. She only got to read the newspaper. Very lonely. Unholy thoughts about Jack Sparrow occupied her thoughts a lot.
She hadn't exactly been truthful with the priest when he asked her if she and Jack were intimate together. They hadn't gone all the way but had come very close to it.
She lived in one of the cottages at the convent. After being there a couple of weeks, Angelica knew that she wasn't cut out to be a nun. She loved shopping, loved going out to bar and restaurants and loved Jack.
Jack also missed her terribly. He hoped that she would not decide to become a nun as in his opinion, she wasn't cut out to be a nun. He hadn't been back to the Fish House since she left. He went out with a friend named Candy but they were just friends and nothing else.
Halloween Day 1974
Jack had driven the 155 mile trip from St. Augustine to Cypress Gardens. He had gotten a call from Angelica the week before telling him that she would be there. When he saw her, they hugged each other. They later had lunch and then when the park closed, Jack took her to his hotel room. It was about 6:00 pm and it was getting dark. No one would notice that she was gone, or so she hoped.
Once he kissed her, there was no going back. Shortly thereafter, Angelica Garcia lost her virginity to Jack Sparrow and fell asleep in his arms.
The next day she went back to the convent (sneaking in the back way) and no one noticed that she was gone. Jack had to go back home and she cried when he did.
Thanksgiving 1974 – Mid afternoon
This was the first thanksgiving Angelica had without her grandparents. Most of her family lived in Spain and were distant. She only saw them once a year, if that. The few family members that were in St. Augustine didn't include her in their plans this year.
Grace Sparrow lived in a modest home in a subdivision just outside St. Augustine that was built back in the late 1950's. She was delighted to see Angelica. Several others who lived in the neighborhood were in attendance.
"This is Jack's girlfriend Angelica. Angelica this is Dolores & Rex Sparrow (Rex is Dick's brother and Dolores is my sister in law). "
"Nice to meet you. I've heard a lot about you." said Rex.
"All good of course." said Dolores.
They all laughed.
"I once thought that I wanted to become a nun but I went to a convent for two months and it's not for me. I like shopping, I like being in this world."
"Well, actually Uncle Rex, her grandparents were the ones who wanted her to become a nun. She really didn't."
"At one time I did, before I noticed Jack."
Everyone got a good laugh out of the comment.
"You still have to go back there until December, don't you?" asked Rex.
"Yes and then I finished with it. Freedom.
Grace, Dolores & Rex seems fascinated with hearing about Angelica's living in a convent for two months.
"You knew that there was really a Jack Sparrow who was a pirate who lived back in the day and did you know that he seduced a nun whose name happened to be Angelica."
"Rex, why are you talking about that?" said Dolores who was rolling her eyes.
"No, it's okay. I've heard the story from Uncle Pedro. I had never heard the story until Jack and I started dating. Uncle Pedro, well let's just stay he's strange."
"Well, you don't have to worry about Uncle Pedro anymore, Angelica. He's locked up in the psych ward."
"I'm glad that he is, Jack. He came down to the convent and was looking into windows saying he was looking for my boyfriends which I was hiding. I've told people for years that he has a couple of loose screws but no one would listen. He only married my Aunt for the money and. shortly after he married my aunt, she died."
Jack had never told his mother that Pedro had stalked him when he found out that Angelica and he were dating. He never approached them but was in the distance. When Angelica found out she was upset and thought it would be best if she went to the convent or used this as a excuse to leave town. When she left, Pedro continued for a while to follow him around. Jack had Pedro convinced that he had moved on to another girlfriend and then Pedro stopped following him.
While the thanksgiving dinner at Angelica's home was very formal in the dining room, the Sparrow Thanksgiving dinner was very causal and was potluck. The weather had been unusually warm, so they dinned inside as well as outside.
The kids in the neighborhood had a blast running around and playing.
Jack took Angelica home and they drank wine until they were drunk. He decided to spend the night.
Friday then went out Shopping and Saturday they went to the beach. Then Angelica had to go back to the convent for another three weeks.
Shortly after Angelica went back to the convent, she got a call saying that her Uncle Pedro had taken his own life. Her attorney took care of the funeral and burial arrangements.
Mid-December 1974
Shortly after Angelica arrived home, she was asked to have a meeting with the Priest.
"I spent three months at the convent and discovered that being a nun wasn't for me." said Angelica.
"Well, that a good thing as I wouldn't recommend you to becoming a nun because you have allowed Jack Sparrow to tarnish your reputation."
"I don't know what you are talking about, Father Perez."
"It is come to my attention that you and Jack have spent a lot of time together at your house and the rumor mill is that you have slept with him. Is that true?"
"Did Uncle Pedro tell you this before he died?
Uncle Pedro saw you go into a motel room on Halloween night with Jack. You spent the night with him, didn't you?
"I don't discuss my personal life with anyone."
"I assume you have sexual intercourse with him?"
Angelica said nothing.
"Well, if you feel that way about him, maybe you should get married to him. You have committed a grave sin by having sex before marriage and using artificial birth control and you need to ask for God's forgiveness."
"This isn't...
"Is Jack Sparrow baptized? If he isn't, then you have committed another act of sin by having sex with an unbaptized person."
"I don't know if he is. I have no clue."
"His mother Grace practices magic and witchcraft, another reason to dump Jack Sparrow and I can tell you this, I would never perform a wedding between you and Jack Sparrow if you decide to get married and I will make sure that no church in this city marries you."
"Thank you for your time, Father. I'm leaving."
Henry could hear the recording that attorney Ashley Langstrom had received from another Priest who knew of the existence of the tape.
"Wow interesting stuff on the parents. Good Job Ashley"
"There more interesting stuff."
The vehicle stopped in a park. Henry was asked to get out of the vehicle and return in an half and hour.
Henry knew what was going on. It made him sick to his stomach but he could say nothing. He was paid well for his silence. Like his father Will, Henry knew basically in Tallahassee what politician was sleeping with whom, who was cheating on whom, who was an alcoholic or drug abuser, who was in swinging or kinky sex and who had had abortions, and who got away with DUI, reckless driving and who go away with criminals acts. Many of these individuals claimed to be Christian and promoted family values. Anyone that believed what they said were crazy. Henry had stopped believing years ago.
While there were a few in politics who were good and decent, they were few and far between. Most of those individuals didn't last very long in politics. Henry's grandfather William was only in two terms back in the early1970's and got out. William Turner was one of the good ones.
No one knew about him recording their conversations which was a good thing. He hadn't yet heard of someone hiring a hit man to kill someone, but he wouldn't be surprised if someone would want to do this to him after knowing that he recorded their conversations, which was why his father told him to be very careful. Of course what he was doing wasn't legal, which wouldn't help things.
Angelica resisted pressure to marry Jack after she found out she was pregnant. She also resisted pressure from her doctors and others who suggested that she give the baby up for adoption. On September 24, 1975, Maria Grace Sparrow was born at St. Augustine General. Six months later, Angelica and Jack were married by a Judge at her home. In attendance were several members of the Sparrow family. She had invited the few family members she had in St. Augustine but they refused to attend.
Shortly after that, Angelica to everyone's surprise sold the house in St. Augustine and moved to Jacksonville. Jack and Angelica had traveled throughout Florida trying to find a place to live, where they had a new beginning, where no one knew them, where they had no baggage. Jacksonville was okay but it was large and neither of them liked living there.
Carrabelle was a small town in the Florida Panhandle. They moved to Carrabelle a month before the bicentennial in 1976. In 1982 Dolores and Rex moved to Carrabelle and in 1987 Grace moved there as well.
After Grace moved there, Angelica and Jack seldom went to St. Augustine, maybe three times a year and then when Great Aunt Agnes died in 1992, they stopped going to St. Augustine.
Even though Henry didn't know Maria well, he felt like he knew her whole family, which he knew more about them that they would ever cared to know.
