CHAPTER 21 - TONY - COCOA BEACH - COUNTDOWN TO SPACE TRAVEL
Three manned flights were scheduled for the 1964-1965 season, all Gemini flights. Mercury flights years earlier had all been monkeys and seasoned astronauts. Alan Shepard came to Cocoa Beach with Gus Grissom and John Young once, training for Gemini 3. Dr Bellows got clearance to bring Roger to see Shep. Shep remembered him from Houston and even made a wisecrack. "How do you like your pumpkin suit now, Healey? Getting enough use out of it yet?" Roger Healey was in awe. Shep not only remembered him, but the joke. For years, whenever Shep would see Healey, there would be a comment about the pumpkin suit. Roger would never live it down, and the funny thing was, he didn't mind.
Every month, Tony got a letter from Rome, Italy, from his sister Tracy, and every other week, a letter from his mother in Bridgeport. One of the letters from his sister rocked him. She was 19 years old and engaged to an American citizen, a politician named Walter Fitzhugh . He was 29 years old and he was a lot like Tony, according to Tracy. One thing was certain - Tracy had kept her promise to let Tony know if she was "planning to get married or anything like that." His mother was in shock, and was just waiting to see if this was really serious or just a passing fling with Tracy.
In February of 1965, Tony returned the favor on Tracy, writing to her of his engagement to Melissa Stone. He had been a little surprised at himself, proposing to her in the park across the street from his house in Cocoa Beach. He gave her a small engagement ring. She accepted immediately, and their wedding was planned for October, in 8 months. When Tracy got the news of her brother's engagement, she wrote him back - she'd broken her engagement to Walter. She didn't think she could live with someone as demanding as Walter was. Tony wondered why Tracy didn't realize that before, then just figured that Tracy wasn't going to tell him everything about her relationships with men any more than he was going to tell her about his relationship to Melissa.
Shortly after Tony proposed to Melissa, he and Roger were scheduled for a 48 hour training in a Gemini simulator. This meant 48 hours of togetherness with your partner - no showers, no baths, only food in toothpaste tubes and small wrappers. You had to get along fairly well. As long as there was only a small amount of space and no girls around, both Tony and Roger felt they'd do pretty well. After all, what had bugged them most about living together was Tony's neatness vs Roger's sloppiness, and Roger's need to bring in girls at all hours of the day and night into a one-bedroom place. A space capsule simulator - well, no girls allowed. Period.
However, Tony had a female "visitor" into this capsule. He and Roger were both asleep, monitored only by the attendant who was taking the night shift so that Dr Bellows and General Stone could go home and sleep. Tony had that recurring dream again, one that he had not had for
a while. The girl was clearer than ever - knockout gorgeous, blond, wearing a -what? - and still screaming "Get me OUT of here! I want OUT, NOW! I have been in here FOREVER!" Tony called after her, "Darling! I'm getting there but this capsule isn't moving fast enough for me!" It was enough to wake Roger, and the Attendant couldn't believe what he heard.
"Captain Nelson! Would you repeat what you just said?" The attendant said.
"This is Captain Healey. Captain Nelson is still asleep, sir. It was some sort of crazy dream he just had. Don't worry about what he just said."
"Captain Healey, I am required by General Stone and Colonel Bellows to write down EVERY thing that I hear, even if it is part of a dream. What did Captain Nelson just say?"
"Well, I didn't catch every word either. But it was something like 'I'm getting there but this capsule isn't moving fast enough for me,'" Roger repeated as much. He knew what Tony's dream was about, but he wasn't going to repeat it. He had the funny feeling that Bellows would take this dream and twist it around enough to take Tony off the Gemini roster, and himself with it since they were partners.
When Dr Bellows came back on duty, Tony was awake. By then, Roger had whispered to him what had occurred during the night. When Dr Bellows started to question him about the dream, Tony clammed up and simply said he didn't remember what the dream was about, no it had nothing to do with any dreams he'd had before, it was just an isolated dream. The following day, when he came out of the simulator, Tony found himself requested to be on Dr Bellows couch within ten minutes. All he wanted to do was go home and snuggle with Melissa, who was supposed to cook dinner for him that night. He'd even given her the keys to his house so she could start cooking before he got home. Good practice for when they got married, she'd said. Instead, he was going to Bellows' psychiatric looney bin, and who knows when he would get home.
Once on Dr Bellows' couch, he tried to relax, and closed his eyes again. Dr Bellows asked him about the recurring dream that he'd had in Top Gun and again in Astronaut Training. Since Tony knew it was in his psychiatric evaluation, he told him a few of the details of the dream, leaving out only the attire that the woman in the dream was wearing. He told himself later that he couldn't be sure of the attire anyway. Then Dr Bellows asked him if he was SURE that this was not the same dream that he'd had before. He said, he didn't think so, though the details of this dream were still rather fuzzy to him. Dr Bellows asked him why he thought the capsule wasn't going fast enough for him when the simulator had clocked it at 12000 mph. Tony thought about what kind of crack Roger would make, something about the Indy 500 probably. He told Dr Bellows, "Well, we have to win the race to the moon somehow, don't we?" Roger would have been proud of him. Dr Bellows wasn't so impressed, but he let Tony go home after grilling him on the same subject three more times.
No doubt about it. One of these days he was going to figure out where this girl was coming from, and maybe it would put an end to his dreams, and his problems. Maybe.
CHAPTER 22 - JEANNIE - 1965
Fawzia al Babilonia came out of her ethereal state to the drone of something overhead.
She was very frustrated and angry for being cooped up for so very long. Spelling her spirit out of the bottle temporarily, she found that it was early 1965 A.D. Over 2000 years she had been in that bottle, and she wanted OUT! NOW! The drone of something overhead was more of those flying machines she had seen a few years earlier. Checking out the sea, it appeared that the sea lanes still had not moved any closer to her. She spelled her spirit back into the bottle.
"Allah, I would like out of here, please. I have been in here over 2000 years and I have been very patient," Fawzia prayed in Persian. (She had yet to realize that Persia had gotten a new name.) She went on to describe to Allah all of the qualities that she would like in a new master, but added, "In reality, Allah, I will accept one with some of those qualities missing, if only to get out of here sooner!"
The Blue Djinn's bottle was down the hill from Fawzia's bottle, as it had arrived on her island a number of years before. However, his bottle was already buried in the sand away from the sandiest portion of the beach.
CHAPTER 23 - TONY AND MELISSA - THE ENGAGEMENT MONTHS
Being engaged to Melissa was a lot of fun, and Tony was looking forward to making her
his wife on schedule in October - providing a space mission didn't interfere. There were three missions planned, and his solo venture was one of them. He was going either in July, August, or October. They planned the October wedding date around the mission's date, and hoped that nothing would have to change it. Their plans were to be married at the NASA Chapel. Tony wanted only a few people - his parents, a few from NASA, and her parents. Melissa had other ideas. The way she was planning it, it was going to be the Wedding of the Century with everyone in Cocoa Beach invited. It was the first source of contention regarding their marriage.
Roger had nothing more to say about it than, "I told you, she's pushy." But he agreed to be Tony's best man. The two had to make sure that their military dress whites were up to snuff, as they hadn't used them since before Astronaut Training. Fortunately most of the rest of the wedding plans were the bride's problem. Tony was relieved.
It hadn't meant to happen, and they had not really talked about it before it happened. Tony was a traditionalist - you simply did not sleep with your fiancee until she was your wife. However, it didn't work out that way. One day, after Melissa had made dinner at Tony's house for him, they were on the sofa in front of the fireplace - one of Melissa's favorite places to be, he'd found out - and before he knew it, neither of them had a stitch of clothes on. He knew HE hadn't initiated it. Perhaps Roger was right - Melissa WAS aggressive. Tony wondered if her father knew just how much. The fact remained, however, and these times became more and more often as the wedding got closer. At this rate, there would be no surprises after the wedding, that was certain, Tony thought.
Roger started planning Tony's bachelor party in July. He planned one major bash, inviting the entire Astronaut Corps including those in Houston. (You never knew when a Houston-based astronaut needed flight hours or some training gig that wasn't available over there.) Using his humor, he got most of the Cocoa Beach-based astronauts to chip in to pay for everything and they were all looking forward to it.
Melissa came over to Tony's house one night that month to cook dinner for him. He had spent the day in rigorous training, which included two hours in the "Vomit Comet", a jet plane designed to get astronauts to feel the extent of zero gravity for short periods of time up in space. It had that name for a reason, so Tony wasn't feeling so great when he got home.
"Why don't you go in the bedroom and lie down for awhile? Dinner won't be ready for another hour anyway," Melissa told him. Tony changed clothes and laid down - and promptly fell asleep.
Twenty minutes later, he had his recurring dream again. Same girl, same problem, being locked up somewhere. Tony could see that she was locked up in pretty tight quarters, still wearing the pink filmy thing. He tossed and turned, wishing he could help her, finally shouting out, "I'll be there soon! Stay there! Don't go away!"
Melissa came running into the bedroom, shocked at what she had heard. "Tony, wake up!" He tossed and turned some more. "Tony, sweetheart, wake UP!" He jerked awake pretty quickly. "What was that all about? Where are you going that you'll be there soon? Who are you telling not to go away?"
Tony then knew that he'd had this dream in front of Melissa. Melissa could tell her father, who would relay it to Dr Bellows - and there would go the orbit he was supposed to go on. They'd move everybody else up one and he'd be shuttled - right out of the space program. So he wasn't going to tell her. "I don't know what you're talking about, Melissa."
"Tony, that was some dream. And you've only been asleep for what, 20 minutes or so? What was it about?" Melissa was trying to find out. "C'mon...You can tell me...I'm not going to tell my father."
"I don't remember ... " Tony was stubborn sometimes.
The dream repeated itself four more times before Tony Nelson was scheduled to go into flight. One time, he and Roger were in the simulator alone, and it was just for 24 hours. Fortunately Dr Bellows had just stepped away from the simulator long enough to get a cup of coffee, so Roger didn't have to lie for him. Roger hated lying and knew that there were certain ways to get around telling the truth, usually with a humorous remark. The other times, Tony had been alone and just woke up thinking about the dream. He kept wondering, why was HE having this dream, and why was it always the same one? It was like watching a rerun on television, over and over, only more frustrating because the show didn't have an ending.
CHAPTER 24 - ROGER - 1965
Roger spent most of 1965 so busy training for space that he hardly had much time to
go out with girls, but he managed to find both the time AND the girls to go out with. Like when he was in college, though, he really liked it when the girl would make dinner for him at her place or his. Going out to eat all the time was really hard on a Captain's salary, even with the flight pay and astronaut bonuses thrown in. He had finally gotten his new car, a 1962 Ford T-bird with a convertible top. The payments on that alone were killing him, so he saved where he could. He even took in a roommate for awhile, to help with the rent. But that didn't work, for the same reasons as he couldn't room with Tony. He moved down the hall to a smaller place, and the rent was cheaper. LOTS cheaper.
Roger discovered that he wasn't too bad with some forms of gambling, but that was frowned upon by the Powers-That-Be at NASA. He was pretty good with horse racing, not too bad with craps (but he didn't like it), but a good poker game couldn't be ignored! It supplemented his income a little, but he had to be careful not to get caught. Having a bigger income would be wonderful - even if it meant being slightly illegal - he loved having THINGS. His T-bird was an example of one of the things he loved. Sometimes he wished for a fairy godmother that could wave a wand and give him everything he ever wanted. It would make life so much easier. Well, on the other hand, everyone had warned him that he'd probably make more money as a civilian engineer than he would in the military, even in the space business.
The three rookies who were the possibilities to go into space were himself, Tony Nelson, and Pete Conway. So the three of them were spending loads of time training. They were in and out of simulators, pouring over books and attending classes given by the civilian contractors building the spacecraft, going on survival missions, in freezing chambers, pressure chambers and steam machines - and if Roger Healey had to do one more push-up he thought he was going to crack up. The best place for push-ups, he thought, was on the Vomit Comet when it hit the G-force that made them feel weightless. He just didn't particularly like the feeling he got when coming off the Vomit Comet. It sure had that name for a reason! His mentor, Shep, had given it that name one time, and it stuck. The whole corps called it that, because most of them had felt that feeling while training on it.
Tony had gotten to fly to Washington DC on his own the previous fall, and Roger was supposed to go with him. However, at the last minute, Pete had to back out of the simulator training so Roger was scheduled in his place. Tony went alone. That was too bad, as Roger had been looking forward to seeing who was still stationed at Andrews.
Roger almost fainted when Tony announced that he was marrying Melissa Stone, the General's daughter, and asked Roger if he would be his Best Man. Of course Roger said yes - who else would do that duty - but he was surprised. He had really expected that Tony would be one of the last astronauts to get married.
One of the jobs done by the Best Man was to plan the Bachelor Party. Roger planned to give the best bachelor party ever given for an astronaut in Cocoa Beach. He thought it would be hard to get permission from The Suits to throw the party at NASA, where they wouldn't have to pay rent, but it was easy. The Suits all wanted an invitation, of course, and it had to be after hours when no one was scheduled for training.
CHAPTER 25 - TONY'S MISSION - STARDUST I - OCTOBER 1965
The timing was crucial. Blast off, or lift off as it is officially called, had to take place at a precise time. Everything on board the capsule had to occur at a specific time or the mission would be scrapped. Tony went into isolation 48 hours before the mission, staying in a trailer near the base of the rocket designed to place his capsule into orbit. When it came down, he was going to spend another 48 hours in isolation. Yet he would only be up in space for less than 12 hours! A lot of work goes into one tiny little flight, he thought, as Dr Bellows took him to his isolation trailer. He would be totally alone there, though he had a radio if he needed to contact someone. He would be monitored but not by radio, this time.
That was a good thing. On his last night in isolation, the night before his mission, he had that dream again. This time the girl was crystal clear, her outfit almost perfectly visible - she looked like something out of a story book. He tried to remember which story book, but couldn't.
She was blond, and she was still yelling, "I am so TIRED of being in here! Will someone PLEASE let me out!" This time, though, Tony didn't yell at her. In his dream, he merely said to her, "I'll be there soon. Just wait." He woke up thinking, "I know what this dream is all about! It's my desire to go into space! That girl crying 'let me out' is my psyche wanting to fly in space! Because I WILL be there soon! I WILL!" He figured out his dream, or he thought he had, and he felt SO much better. The "girl" was going to get out, that will to fly.
Loaded into his capsule the next day, listening to the deafening noise around him as the rockets fired, he thought about this dream - the dream of the girl, and how it coincided with his dream of outer space. He was getting his dreams, all right, and when he came back, he was going to marry the girl of his dreams, Melissa.
Well ... at least he thought Melissa was the girl of his dreams. In his mind, Melissa's aggressiveness was the one problem they were going to have in their marriage. Aggressive was one thing, but if she started ordering Tony around - well, that was one thing that Tony couldn't take. HE wanted to be the boss in a marriage - the master, if you wanted to call it that.
He heard Roger's voice giving some of the commands after lift-off, and that calmed him some. Roger, who he knew, would give anything to be sitting here in this seat today instead of the one he was sitting in back at the base. Despite Roger's wit and craziness, he had been a good friend and confidant for close to two and a half years now. He had never had such a good friend - even his best friends in high school and college had never been this close to him. Roger knew things about Tony Nelson that Michael and Doug could never have even guessed. He could trust Roger with anything - well, almost. His sister Tracy came up as the one thing Tony would never trust Roger with.
A strange noise came suddenly from outside the capsule, bringing Tony out of his reverie. There was a voice saying, "Control to Stardust I. Control to Stardust I. Come in, Tony."
"Stardust I to Control. Read you loud and clear," Tony responded.
"Tony. The final stage rocket misfired. We're going to have to bring you down. Stand by." It was Roger's voice. At least it was comforting, not a stranger.
"Gee, I was just getting warmed up," Tony responded. He heard Roger's chuckle as he told another man, "Tony has a sense of humor about this."
Then Tony heard General Stone's voice, "This is General Stone We have an emergency. Stardust I is coming down. Alert the 7th fleet." Tony knew then that he was somewhere over the Pacific as he was supposed to be, but coming down as he was not supposed to be. He wondered where.
The Capsule landed in the water at first, then floated to shore, which took about an hour. Once on land, Tony had to struggle to get the hatch opened from the inside, something that was supposed to be done by Navy guys from the outside. Their training had included emergencies like this, so he knew what to do.
Tony got out onto the beach, which turned out to be a really beautiful beach, on a deserted island. He took all of his emergency equipment out of the capsule, in case it floated back out to sea (as it probably would, and did). The emergency equipment included a life raft, sleeping bag, flimsy piece of cloth that could be called a "tent" by survivors, a couple of days worth of food, matches in a waterproof container, and specially designed signals. He had no idea how long he would be there, or how anyone would find him. He'd heard his future father-in-law, General Stone, call for the 7th fleet, but the Pacific Ocean was a mighty big ocean. Hopefully NASA had enough coordinates on him before he went down, to have a general idea of where to start to look. He may as well settle in and see what this island had to offer. It could be home for a very, very long time. Maybe forever.
CHAPTER 26 - JEANNIE - HOW TO GET RESCUED
A strange noise brought Fawzia from her ethereal state this time. Spelling her spirit
outside of the bottle once again, she laid eyes on a man. He was quite a distance away at this point, so she could not get a good look at him. But there was a man on this island, and at the edge of the water, some strange sort of contraption that looked a little like the stopper on her bottle. It was wide at one end, and narrow at the other, and on it was a door that was wide open.
Fawzia knew exactly what she had to do. She had to bring her spirit back inside the bottle and try to get that bottle closer to the man, down near to the beach. She had tried doing it from outside of the bottle, hundreds of years before, unsuccessfully. So she was going to have to try to roll it down to the beach.
Back inside the bottle completely, she began to rock back and forth. She asked for more strength to rock it, and pretty soon, she felt the bottle rolling down the hill. It felt as though it landed on sand. Then she heard whistling, and peeking outside the bottle, she saw the shadow of the man that her spirit had seen. He was nearby. He was doing something with rocks, but she did not know what. She really did not care what. She did not even care if he broke her bottle. It would succeed in getting her out of it after 2000 years. She made one last prayer to Allah, that this man would pick up her bottle and somehow free her from it, and that he would be a kind Master who would treat her well.
"Hey, what's this?" Fawzia heard a voice outside of her bottle. It sounded muffled, but after 2000 years, who cared how it sounded? It sounded kind, and that was important. Fawzia rocked the bottle a little, forcing it to roll a little more. The man picked it up, still on its side, placed it down elsewhere, so Fawzia rocked the bottle to roll it some more. The man picked it up, almost upright this time, and tried to get the stopper off. Fawzia took a breath. What if the stopper would not come off? Would the man keep trying, or give up?
The stopper came off with a pop. From her vantage point at the bottom of the bottle, Fawzia looked to the top and saw a human eye looking into her bottle. It was the most gorgeous hazel eye she had ever seen in her life. It didn't take long. The man decided to rub some of the sand off of the bottle, and that was all Fawzia needed. One rub of a bottle or a lamp containing a djinn or djinni is all it takes to summon that djinn out. And out came Fawzia in a huge puff of pink smoke - for the first time in over 2000 years.
CHAPTER 27 - JEANNIE AND TONY - ON THE ISLAND
Fawzia took one look at this beautiful hunk of a man, and knew that this was the Master she would and could serve for the rest of his life. So far he met every single one of her requirements: young, good-looking, kind, thoughtful enough to open her bottle. She could train him to be anything else she wanted. He was wearing some sort of strange outfit, a one piece coverall in blue with a strange patch with 4 English letters on it. His brown hair was short and neatly trimmed, and his whole physique eluded sex-appeal. And those eyes ... beautiful, hazel eyes.
Though not trained perfectly in the ways of the djinn, Fawzia immediately kneeled down and bowed to this new Master. In Persian, she said to him, "Your wish is my command, Master." He didn't appear to understand her. She couldn't resist giving him something that they both would remember forever: a kiss, her first one in more than two thousand years. As for the man, he was still in shock that she had come out of a bottle, and in a pink harem outfit.
He rubbed his eyes a little, and said in English, "I must have gone further into orbit than I thought." Fawzia understood enough English to know that he must think he was seeing things. He went on, "I mean, I've read about genies, but I never thought they really – it's like something out of the Arabian Nights!" Then he thought again. "My DREAM! This is what my dream has been all about! It's not stress, it's not my dream of space travel! YOU were in my dreams!"
Fawzia, not understanding what he was talking about, replied in Persian again, "My heart sings at having such a handsome Master."
Tony tried introducing himself, "I'm Captain Tony Nelson, US Air Force and NASA. How do you do?"
Fawzia replied in Persian, "I am yours to command."
Tony started to remember the stories that had been read to him and Tracy as they were growing up. "I suppose if I hadn't come along, you'd still be – hey! I rescued you! That means I get a free wish or something. Isn't that what Genies do? Well, of course it is." To Tony, she had just become "Jeannie". "So, I'll tell you what I wish, Jeannie. I wish there was a big beautiful B-69 flying in the sky right over my head."
After a brief discussion in two tongues, which only brought "Sey-mour!", a falcon, to Tony's arm, instead of his desired B-69, Tony finally figured out the command that he needed,
"Jeannie, I wish you could speak English!"
Continuing in her native Persian tongue, Fawzia/Jeannie suddenly switched to English. "Somehow I must find a way to please thee, Master!"
And so, with the powers bestowed on her by the mean Blue Djinn over 2000 years before, Jeannie was able to bring a helicopter to the island and thus ensure her own and Tony Nelson's rescue. Tony tried to free her before he left, but she wanted none of that. The Blue Djinn had given her orders to serve her rescuer as his Genie for the rest of his days, and Jeannie, liking exactly what she saw, decided to do just that. SHE wasn't about to let this one go for anything!
Tony Nelson brought Fawzia al Babilonia, AKA "Jeannie", home to 1020 Palm Drive in Cocoa Beach, and said "adieu" to his fiancee Melissa Stone several weeks later. Roger accidently found out about Jeannie about 4 months later, and Jeannie was added to the short list of things Tony couldn't trust Roger with, because to Roger, Jeannie spelled G-R-E-E-D. Things went along rather bumpily for a while, with Tony and Roger both fighting to keep knowledge of Jeannie from Dr Bellows. Finally, after four years of fighting with his conscience and his sense of reality, Tony proposed to Maharani Jeannie I while in her uncle's palace in Basenji. He had learned a lot about being a Master to a Djinn in those years. On December 2, 1969, he married her.
And as they say, fairy tales DO come true.
Copyright 2004 by CAJeannieFan57/Donna
Disclaimer: The characters in this fan fiction are mostly the creation of Sidney Sheldon, Screen Gems/Sony Pictures, for the 1965-1970 television show, "I Dream of Jeannie." His characters, and those of his writers (especially Jim Henerson), include Jeannie, Tony, Roger, Pete, Dr Bellows, General Stone, Melissa Stone, Bonnie Crenshaw, Diane Rodnick, and Mr. and Mrs. Nelson (Tony's parents).
The character of Tracy Nelson is based on a mention in the IDOJ episode, "Jeannie or the Tiger", when Tony tells his mother on the telephone, "give my love to Dad and Sis". The actual character was created and developed by CAJeannieFan57/Donna and OneOfRoger'sGirls/Jeni and has been used in their fan fiction episodes (post-IDOJ). These episodes are available at http/ MamaJeannie/Cathy has joined the writing team of Donna and Jeni as well. Tracy's full story is on that website as "Tracy's Story," in the Pre-Season section.
Astronaut Alan Shepard is a real astronaut of the 1950s/1960s. He was reputed to have a sense of humor that wouldn't quit, and to have made up the term "Vomit Comet" for the space program. Shep was the first American to go into space. (Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin was the first human into space, from the USSR.) Gus Grissom was also an astronaut, but lost his life on Apollo 1 during a launch pad fire. Gordon "Gordo" Cooper was also a real astronaut.
Information on astronaut training was gained from several sources, including library books (especially Moon Shot by Deke Slayton and Alan Shepard) and an Internet website, http/www.nasa.gov (and its many links). It was discovered that most astronaut training and billeting in the early 1960s was actually done at Houston Space Center (now Johnson Space Center), but literary license caused both Sidney Sheldon, as well as this author, to move some of it to Cocoa Beach.
Some portions of this story have been taken from early episodes of "I Dream of Jeannie" in an attempt to make some sense of certain inconsistencies. Examples would include Jeannie's ability to have visited many historical figures when she was supposedly imprisoned in her bottle and to remember certain eras in time. Other portions have been taken in order to tie this story into the actual series itself. Examples would include Tony's engagement to Melissa, his previous girlfriends (Bonnie Crenshaw and Diane Rodnick), and other brief references made in the run of the show.
Much other research was done, most of it online, to ensure that the storyline would be consistent with what was available in the 1960s and that our two astronauts could have been at any of the places where the story took them. The storyline itself belongs to CAJeannieFan57/Donna and OneOfRoger'sGirls/Jeni. Permission to borrow any portion of the story not belonging to Sidney Sheldon, Screen Gems or Sony Pictures Entertainment should be asked. Links to this story should be requested of the Webmaster for this website.
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