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The Tin-Woman
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Madam Danice Starr, childe of Jesse Biagioni of the Carthian Movement of Pittsburgh; Childe of Cody Defrank of Pittsburgh; Child of Annabelle Nolting of New York.
Trivia
- Perfume Fragerance: Chanel Coromandeln
- Musical Preference: Jazz
- Favorite Color: White/Silver
- Collects: Swarovski Crystal
Mortality
I was born August 14th, 1959. Which makes me a Leo in the zodiac if you follow that kind of thing. I know this because I once liked to read my forecast from the backs of People an Star magazines.
What I've told of my childhood;
My mother was my primary source of adult supervision and my role-model. Her name was Alexandra Mae an she was a Texas Beauty Queen - I look a lot like her. Tall, blond, beautiful. I don't belive in God, but I learned to follow hers. That being the Social God. You know the one that rules some small towns. The God that says you have to do everything exactly correct, follow all the rules, and you'll go to heaven. A social heaven, where you get invited to all the right places and hang around with the right people. She had a favorite saying; "The Two V's (Vicodin and Vodka) fix everything". Everything being tantrums, bad hair days, and Father's various mistresses.
Which brings me to my Father; the senator, the philanthropist, and the collector of beautiful things - like my Mother. He smoked Cuban cigars, which he bribed the housekeepers to bring into the country for him. To this day the smell of cigars still remind me of him and I like that.
As for my childhood itself, my mother was determined that I would have all the success an rise higher then she did. I started the pageants when I was very young. I have pageantry titles for; Little Miss Sunshine, Little Miss Merry Christmas, runner up for National Tiny Miss Beauty, an Miss Teen America, an a lot more you probably never heard about.
All that hair, makeup an voice coaching took up a lot of my days, and of course I was still expected to be educated. Which means a twelve hour work day was not uncommon for me. I think all that is quite possibly why I hate having free time to this day. I don't quite know what to do with it.
Lets see..what else about my early years have I let slip since my time here in Carcosa. A yes, the topic of sex and my sexual preference.
I realized I liked girls more then guys somewhere around the age of 10. I didn't act on it then, and It wasn't until I was 14 that I actually kissed another girl. Mother caught me and it became such a huge issue that I never tried it again until after I was dead.
I didn't have time for sex in my pageant/school/travel schedule and so I was about 16 or 17 when it happened. An I did it so that I could stop being a virgin. His name was David, the deed happened under a tree near the bleachers behind some auditorium. I remember hoping he didn't ruin my hair. Very romantic don't you agree?
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My goal in life was to win the Miss America pageant and go on to become an actress in Hollywood. I loved Hollywood and you can't love Hollywood and the glamour of it without loving the Silver Screen divas - Greta Garbo, Jean Harlow, Brigitte Bardot, Louise Brooks I could go on an on. I have all their biographies in my home library. I decorate my home with inspiration from Coco Channel's Paris apartment.
Obviously I never made it to Hollywood, or as Miss America. I don't like to talk about my reasons why so I see no reason to mention why here either. The woman who won was Miss New York, the actress and singer Vanessa Williams an it was 1984. I am bitter about it obviously. Her life could have, should have been mine. But I'm dead an she's not.
Immortality
Dead, undead..vampire. How it happened, I haven't really told anyone. In fact I haven't really explained much of my immortality to anyone here in Carcosa. I'm not going to go into details on it yet either.
But for you, I details of my embrace;
I was in a depression for not winning the pageant, another year closer to being like the washed up drunk that was my mother. My father I saw less an less of, he was in the Bahamas with some new mistress. My friends were society friends, shallow, an uninteresting. Many of them married, already well on their way towards being soccer moms.
I had continuously put off advances from a man named Jesse Biagioni. He scared me, he turned me on more then most men ever had. An onto of it all he had a horribly foul mouth - Mother hated him. In a bout of rage at authority for not making me Miss America that year I let Jesse take me to a new years eve Gala.
He in exchange, he killed me. The girl I was died December 31, 1983, and Danice Alexandra Starr was born January 1, 1984. Frozen at the ripe old age of 25.
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