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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Karin" data-source="post: 104900" data-attributes="member: 57167">Thanks for the feedback Ms Southworth. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />Still even if the doctors could sleep on the job, 72 hour shifts are just crazy. It can't be easy to sleep when you know you could be woken up to work at any minute. Glad you enjoyed the business scene from Ewing Oil so much. Yeah I guess we got a lot of original Dallas references into that scene without really thinking about it. Oh and Bruce Stone is Marilee's son. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />Okay so here's tonight's update:The next day in Philadelphia. Mario and Afton stepped out of a limousine that had stopped in front of Mario’s family home. Afton looked up at the huge grey colored brick mansion with some tins and towers and red tiles on the roof. The mansion, which had some ornament figures, almost reminded her of a European castle. “Wow Mario, it’s beautiful,” Afton said enthusiastically. “Glad you like it,” Mario said.The door opened and a butler came out to carry in their luggage. “Good day the honorable Marius Badeau, welcome home,” he greeted them, “Baron and Baroness Badeau are awaiting you and company in the Parlour.”“Thank you Gilford,” Mario smiled. “After you,” Mario made a gesture for Afton to enter the mansion.Afton stepped into the hallway and had to catch her breath when she saw the Chrystal chandeliers hanging from the painted ceiling. The lamps on the walls were in gold and the floor was in black and white marble. Afton’s eyes lit up as she took in her luxury surroundings. “Wow it’s beautiful.”“I know,” Mario smiled satisfied. “This way,” Mario said and led her into a reception room to the right where a couple in their late 60s was awaiting them. The man was dressed in a blue suit and the woman in a matching suit jacket and skirt. She wore a diamond necklace and matching earrings. “Mother, father, lovely to see you,” Mario walked up to his parents and greeted them with one kiss on each cheek.“Marius, lovely to see you,” Baroness Badeau said. “Mother, father may I introduce my fiancée Mrs. Van Buren III.”Afton flinched as the Baron reached forward a hand and said, “Enchanted my dear, I’m Baron Badeau, my wife the Baroness.”Afton shook hands with the Baron and then Baroness and said, “Nice to meet you, my name is Afton.”The Baroness wrinkled her nose and looked at Afton like she was something the cat had dragged in. “And I suppose it’s not a short for anything?”“Nope, I’m named Afton.”Mario hawked and the Baron said, “And do you have a second name?”“Yes Lynn,” Afton replied and the Badeaus sighed as Afton went on. “And my last name is actually Cooper.”“She means it’s her maiden name,” Mario hurried to explain.“I see, well…” The Baroness made a little face, “So what shall I call you?”“Afton’s fine.”“Alright then, Afton Lynn Cooper Van Buren, where…”“Oh Van Buren’s my ex-husband’s name, so I don’t use that anymore,” Afton interrupted the Baroness.The Baroness looked disapproving on her and said, “I see. I was under the impression that you were widowed.”“No Harrison and I are divorced,” Afton said.“And you’ve got sole custody of the child?” Baron Badeau asked.“Well of course since Pamela Rebecca is my daughter,” Afton said. “Harrison has no interest in her.”The Baroness raised an eyebrow before she asked, “Aha and the child’s father?”“Oh his name is Cliff and he…” Afton started saying before Mario interrupted her.   “Mother, father, lunch is getting cold, right?”“Right, let’s continue this conversation over dinner,” the Baron said.“Yes I’m very interested to hear all about your background,” the Baroness said and Mario sighed, as he realized that his parents were never going to approve of his new fiancé.</blockquote>

Verification: What month follows July?