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1806, March

The love affair between Constanza and Jules MacDuff continues to prosper. Maybe it should worry her that he has started clinging to her like this right after the death of his wife, but if she is honest to herself, she doesn’t much care. The hours she spends with him, even if they are a sin, are the best part of her day. She feels better, more protected, less alone, when he is with her. He is still supporting her financially, but that isn’t dependent on their lovemaking anymore.

She doesn’t delude herself, however. This will not lead to marriage. Jules would be a fool to marry her; she is a prostitute, a fallen woman. In taking her as his wife, he would sully his own reputation and sever his links with his family, which surely wouldn’t associate with him anymore for fear of being tainted by association with her. He also has his daughter to think of; who would marry a girl brought up under the tutelage of a woman without virtue? She tells herself that having his love and support is enough. She is happy when she is with him. She has to be content with that.

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1806, March

Oh, yes. Such an adorable child. Especially when he is playing in the toilet.

And yes, that bucket is, in fact, the toilet. The young lady in the second picture isn’t Constanza but the townie that does what us modern folk call ‘babysitting’ when Constanza is at work.

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Birthday: Miss Constanza Lionetti

Name: Constanza Lionetti

Generation: 1

New Life Stage: Young Adult (20 years old)

Birthday: 7th March 1786

Life State: Sim

Traits: Irresistible, Schmoozer, Bookworm, Dislikes Children, Cat Person

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1806, March

In 1806, Constanza celebrates her twentieth birthday.

Insofar as she has leisure to reminisce at all these days – which isn’t often – the occasion makes her think about all that has happened in the six years since she had arrived in Moonlight Falls. She can hardly remember the foolish girl she had been then, only fourteen years old, a mother only three years later.

And then the three years since Adriano’s birth! As low as she has sunk, at least both herself and her son are still alive. She is sure that others in her situation would have perished long ago. She doesn’t know what the future will bring, but she has that, at least.

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1805, December

If she isn’t at the elixir shop, caring for her garden, at the tailor where she works as a seamstress, doing household work, entertaining Jules or caring for Adriano, Constanza spends her time sewing.

Really, there is not a minute of the day where she is not occupied with something or other. The fact that she still struggles to make ends meet makes her more bitter than she’d like to admit, even to herself.

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1805, November

Constanza soon puts her new baby carrier to good use to take Adriano with her when she goes to the apothecary to continue her research. While there, she brews some potions to sell, but her main goal is still finding an elixir to cure her son’s vampirism. There are some recipes, but her skills aren’t sufficient to even attempt to use them.

Adriano, meanwhile, spends his time exploring the shop and learning how to walk on his own.

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1805, October

With the coming of spring, there are other new developments other than those in Constanza’s and Jules’ relationship. Constanza has decided that to avoid the necessity of buying ingredients for her elixirs, she will instead grow some of them herself. There is an old apple tree in her yard, which she decides to care for as well.

And she makes a new acquisition so she can more easily take Adriano with her when she goes about her errands: a contraption to carry him on her back. (Courtesy of the Functional Baby Carrier mod by TheSweetSimmer) Being able to take him along like this makes going out to other places far easier on her.

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1805, August

Things continue breaking in the house, Adriano continues to be the most adorable toddler and I continue to be too lazy to remove Jules’ anachronistic wristwatch which he for some reason wears to bed.

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1805, June

Jules visits her more often after his wife’s passing and spends more time in her home. It isn’t even merely the physical comfort he seeks from her, much to her surprise. He wants that, too, but he also stays and eats with her, talks to her, and even spends time with her son.

Part of her wants to ask why he is lavishing attention on her child instead of on his own motherless daughter, but it seems callous. Maybe looking at the girl is too painful. Her birth has killed her mother, after all. It isn’t little Elissa’s fault, but neither is it untrue.

Constanza has started liking Jules’ company for its own sake long ago, but a curious domesticity creeps into his presence in these weeks. He still pays her money, but what they have starts feeling less and less like a business transaction.

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1805, June

Jules MacDuff’s wife is dead.

She learns this when he appears at her door one evening, completely distraught. It is so far from the mood he usually meets her in that she is shaken to her core. His story comes out in pieces; he seems to beside himself to speak coherently. But when she understands, her heart breaks for him.

Like so many women, Janet MacDuff hasn’t survived childbirth, to their first child, no less. Their daughter, Elissa, is in good health and in the care of a wetnurse, but arranging the nurse and the funeral and everything else that comes with death has left Jules drained.

Constanza does what she can to comfort him, which isn’t much. He seems grateful for it, nontheless.

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1805, May

Constanza is shocked when she opens her letterbox one day to find an envelope with a cheque inside it, written out in her name, with a sum on it that is more than what she earns in half a year. She is so shocked that she can’t process it at first, much less care about who has sent her the money. When she does, she almost keels over.

It’s from Tristan, with a note attached to it.  “For you and the child.”

He knows about Adriano, then. But why not confront her? Tristan, with his romantic sensibilities, must want to play a part in his son’s life. And even if he doesn’t know that Adriano is his, wouldn’t he be suspicious that he could be?

Or does he know and has realized the danger his father could pose to both Adriano’s and her own safety, and doesn’t want to draw attention to them?

She can’t make sense of it, but she is not fool enough to refuse the money out of pride. She lays some aside for household expenses, but with the rest, she does her best to make her main room homier and to buy a rocking horse for her son. Just something small to brighten up their lives.

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1805, May

With no man in the house and no money to pay for help – other than the girl that looks after Adriano while she is working – Constanza has to take care of everything in the house herself, from keeping it clean to fixing things that break. And they break often.

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1805, April

Just Constanza and baby Adriano being adorable together. Do I know that she dislikes children? Yes. Do I care? No.

Also: Can we talk about how beautiful Constanza is.

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1805, January

Constanza isn’t always the greatest mother (like when she lets her toddler sleep on the couch) but she tries.

And hey, the Lionettis have a bathtub now!

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1804, December

Just Constanza and Jules MacDuff chatting on the bed during one of his visits.

I’m using the Working Sims Bed Mod by ani for this, by the way. Because I haven’t taken the time to let Constanza level up her charisma, she doesn’t earn much, but it’s helpful nonetheless. There is a percentage chance that she’ll get pregnant, but so far, she has been lucky.

Because the percentage is pretty low, I explain this to myself as her having stumbled across a contraceptive potion that actually works, unlike most to that effect that was sold in the nineteenth century while researching alchemy.

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1804, September

Now that her son is starting to get older and more mobile – he is even trying to learn to walk on his own already! – Constanza doubles her efforts to look for a cure for his vampirism whenever she finds time to visit the shop. It was all well and good to keep him hidden away while he was an infant, but he is a toddler now. It won’t be long before he’ll want to explore the world outside.

But there is still nothing.

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Birthday: Adriano Lionetti

Name: Adriano Lionetti

Generation: 2

New Life Stage: Toddler (18 months old)

Birthday: 18th February 1803

Life State: Vampire

Traits: Excitable, Slob

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