What looks pretty with blooms and smells sweet has usually been fertilized with stinky shit. Or, for every silver cloud, there's a black lining, a yin-yang in which two diametrically opposed forces battle for control and cause a torrential thunderstorm in the mind. Sometimes life can be full of brambles, thorns, and weeds, as well as beautiful blooms. Love can overcome all boundaries, all hate, all vices, love is love, no matter what, no matter whom, and love is love. And love has a language of its own. DSM At a reunion of the Lund cousins, namely Tater Todd Clarke; Tiffany Clarke; Steve and Rowdy Hudson; Ginnie's stepbrother and sworn protector, the actor Michael Lund. In his junior year of college, at the suggestion of his agent Linda Carpenter Lucas Jordan changed his name to Lucas Chandler. The cousin picnic had proved too stressful for Ginnie and after reliving the harrowing experience after being sexually assaulted by her now deceased father Darren Dexter, she'd begun baby talking as she told of the events following the deaths of her paren'ts, had gone into convulsions and died. Lucas had ignored the pleas that it was hopeless to try CPR and gave her a life-breathing kiss of air. Ginnie's body gave a jerk, she sat up hands to the side of her head; her eyes, normally a mild hazel green, had become deep emerald gems. Ginnie's lids had closed and when she opened them, they were mild hazel green again. Ginnie had a freak of a peculiar vision and she got scared, scared that she might be losing her mind. From this point on until Lucas's last vision on Grand Cayman it was she that was cursed with visions. A man enters a Soup Kitchen on University Ave, next to a building that used to be The University Avenue Lounge-the sign, paint flaking, is still on the building, hanging askew-a strip club or place of exotic dancing and center for prostitution. The place was shut down after a vice raid. Senator Percival Peacock's daughter: Crystal, one of the dancers, was arrested for indecent exposure, prostitution, and lewd proclivities. This man mowed down 50-people with an Uzi-burp gun-machine pistol as they drank apple cider and ate turkey and mashed potatoes, gravy, spaghetti string squash soup for the Thanksgiving Day celebration. A man in dirty cook's whites, with scruffy beard and thick-lensed glasses: a man who later identified himself as Barry Bowers, who'd taken time off from his job at a Jesters restaurant, a former baseball catcher hurled a ladle full of gravy at him. The hot gravy blinded him and the base of the ladle scoop hit him in the trigeminal nerve complex in his forehead and knocked him unconscious; then he got the shit stomped out of him and had his arms and legs ripped out of the sockets.