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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Snarky Oracle!" data-source="post: 441811" data-attributes="member: 57984">**1953 -- Blake begins his start-up company, aided by financial aid from his father (who's trying to make amends) siphoned from The Collection Tom was given as compensation for shipping nazi war criminals and Third Reich scientists to Argentina, Brazil, and other South American countries.**1954 -- Blake meets Alexis, 16, at a business seminar in Moldavia (to extract -- pilfer -- the tiny principality's natural resources). In attendance is Cecil Colby of ColbyCo who is dating the ravishing teen, Alexis. Her mother, high society super-slut Minx Morell, also there as chaperone, encourages her daughter to pursue Blake who, although not quite as rich as Cecil, seems more stable husband material. Alexis marries Blake in late-May, just after her 17th birthday. Leaving Cecil in a permanent rage at Blake for the rest of his life, while Blake had no sense of how passionate Colby really was about his former paramour. Yet Cecil maintains the pretense of friendship with Blake for the next quarter-century.**1955 -- Adam is born in March. Blake & Alexis' home burns during the summer, killing Blake's mother, Ellen Lucy Fallon Carrington -- just weeks after Ellen leaves her son The Crater (Ellen, disinherited after her marriage to Tom, having been reinstated in her family's will, due to Blake's financial ascendance). The fire leads Blake to purchase the Cedar Abbey estate, the property having lain fallow for 23 years since The Depression, into which he moves his family. Adam is kidnapped from his stroller in September while on the sidewalk in The Village (I do not like the tiny hamlet's moniker "Harmon Springs" not arrived at by the writers until Season 7). But shortly after Adam's birth, Alexis, lonely over Blake's endless absences due to business, resumes her romance with Cecil.**late-'50s  -- Simmering over the loss of Alexis, and galled by Blake's burgeoning success in the local oil industry -- and infuriated by Blake's mother's side of the family, the Fallon dynastic empire who'd ruled over Boulder, Colorado for 200 years, pulling out of a government deal with ColbyCo to supply military materiel, leaving Cecil to lose untold millions -- Colby works behind-the-scenes to destroy the Fallon family, their empire crumbling into the sunset behind the Rockies just as Blake's fortunes rise. Cecil uses his business alliances and contacts in Washington -- including the Coloradoan political powerhouses, the Fallmonts -- to destroy The Fallons.**1956 -- Fallon is born in January, and Alexis is unsure of the identity of the girl's biological father.**1957 -- Steven is born in early-June.**1958 -- Blake's start-up venture is re-christened "Denver Carrington".**1963 -- The reconstruction of the estate begins in order to spiff it up, Alexis hiring Roger Grimes as architect (but he's an unscrupulous cad with low-level intel connections, assigned to locate The Collection -- especially that crystal skull -- which seems to matter to somebody most of all) being buried under Cedar Abbey by Blake and his father once Blake learned of its existence). Roger begins an affair with Caress Morell and then graduating to her sister, Alexis.**1964 -- Jealous and vengeful that Sister Dearest has stolen away her hunky lover, Caress informs Blake where and when he can catch his wife with Roger (in the art studio, designed by Roger himself??) in June. Furious over Alexis' infidelity, Blake flies into a rage and throws Alexis out of the house -- but not before beating Grimes half-to-death with a heavy brass candlestick... A month later, Blake & Alexis pointlessly attempt a reconciliation over a July weekend which deteriorates within 36 hours, leading him to throw her out once-and-for-all. Rejected again, Alexis surreptitiously meets with Roger, now out of the hospital, at the cottage on the far edge of the estate under the shadow of Scorpio Peak, her intention to kidnap her daughter, Fallon, and to run off with her and Roger Grimes. But to Alexis' chagrin, the slippery Roger has lost interest in her, his intention to avoid Blake's wrath and finding no potential in a woman who's just lost her wealthy husband. A fight ensues, Alexis grabs a gun which tumbles to the floor of the cabin, and 8-year-old Fallon picks up the weapon and shoots Roger in the back of the head, killing him. (Although I still like my idea of Grimes, bleeding from his wound, staggering down to the mansion's kitchen in the dead of night in order to rape Caress in retribution, the young woman stabbing the doomed lothario in the abdomen 13 times following the sexual assault... but that, once again, is just me)... In either case, Blake's father deposits Grimes' body in that crevasse intended to hide The Collection and all the shame that could come with it, the mine eventually metamorphosing into an icy Colorado lake.. Unconscious on the floor of the cottage, and convinced by her grandfather that the entire ordeal had been a dream, mother & daughter are none the wiser -- and would remain so for another 24 years. (I still also want my Diamond Cook scenario for October '64 to be reveal in late-Season 7).** 1965 ... The divorce is finalized in January. Amanda is born in London in April -- a mere two months after Caress gives birth to Roger's baby she kills (inadvertently?) in a fall down the steps in a miniscule country house in a quiet British village, the tiny body buried in a shallow, snow-covered grave in the garden to the rear of the dwelling.NOTE; any previous discrepancies in the length of Blake's & Alexis' marriage can be explained by Blake groaning that "those last few years were so horrible -- such a blur" or even jokes about Alexis lying about her age (as long as Joan makes them). <img src="https://a.1stdibscdn.com/pair-of-french-19th-century-brass-candlesticks-for-sale-picture-7/f_8648/f_405346321720486664951/DSC_7037_master.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="width: 701px" /></blockquote>

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