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 At
her first appearance, Aurora is seen as an appearance by the young
Sawyer Walker. All dressed in white, in a princess's dress, with long
and curly hair, she sleeps in the darkness, stretched out in a gazeebo
lost right in the middle of the Ballymoor property. Little talkative,
looking lost and without points of reference, Aurora makes then only the
first step towards a new life, her life.
At
her mother's
death in 1979, Aurora is made out to be dead by her maternal grandmother,
Abigail. This latter tries to shield her from her father, Micah, whom
she considers unworthy of the Beckwithe dynasty. Aurora is then raised
by her grandmother and some domestics at the last floor of the Ballymoor
manor, out of sight and of the outside world. Until she crosses the path
- and the eyes - of Sawyer. She immediately feels his purity of spirit,
his huge honesty and the fact that she can completely trust him.
Conditioned
by her grandmother, she does not see that she made her prisoner and
refuses at first to listen to Sawyer's incentives to become emancipated
of her stranglehold. When she discovers that her father is back in the
United States, she takes the defense of the one who raised her. She has
to wait until Abigail confines illegally Sawyer and almost kills her
with an ax so that Aurora becomes aware of the truth. The accidental
death of her grandmother closes this first part of her existence, and
makes her finally ready to discover the world and to build up her own
personality.
She
decides to remain to live in Ballymoor with her newly found father,
until a drama arises in the life of the one she loves, Sawyer :
suspected of Frank Goodman's murder, this latter is forced to flee the
city to escape the police. Aurora follows him, and both run away to
Philadelphia, then Boston. Aurora learns for the first time to fend for
herself, to find a small job and to maintain a tiny apartment for her
and Sawyer. If she supports her beloved in his fugitive's breakaway, she
does not appreciate to see him soaking into a case of rigged boxing
match to earn money. While Sawyer is acquitted of the murder, Aurora is
found by her father and Jodie Walker, and goes back with Sawyer in Santa
Barbara.
She
discovers that meanwhile Micah and Jodie got closer and have an affair.
It disrupts especially Sawyer, who sees in it the promise of a likely
divorce between his parents. Aurora, with the naivety and the positive
surge which characterize her, sees there nothing to add. It is in the
same state of mind that, at the end of the year, she welcomes without
batting an eyelid the arrival of a half-brother she didn't know the
existence of, Giovanni. She moreover supports his step to be ordered
priest against his father's advice.
In
spite of the drama of her grandmother's death and every year of lies
which she underwent, Aurora crosses the events unless nothing really
seems to affect her. It is thus always with a smile on her lips that she
attends in the last episode the wedding of her sister-in-law B.J and
Warren Lockridge, probably dreaming to wear very fast on herself the
bridal dress with her soul mate, Sawyer...
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Patriot
games, 1992
