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is in the very last episodes of Santa Barbara that the way of Mason and
Julia Capwell crosses that of a new character. Whereas they come back in
Santa Barbara after a weekend of holidays, Mason and Julia take in
their car a pregnant teenager who hitch-hiked. And at the same time, we
make better knowledge with Gracie Lee Lively.
In
the first time, Mason and Julia agrees to lodge Gracie gracefully. It is
Julia who insists to keep her so much her pregnancy is advanced and so
much she is touched by the young woman's distress. In one moment of
intimacy, Gracie entrusts to Julia and she tells her her life. Gracie
would be pregnant of a young man, a soldier, who would have given her up
at the announcement of her pregnancy. And today, she finds herself
pregnant, without work and money. Moved, Julia proposes to help her :
she accompanies her to the army barracks where the presumed father
denies knowing Gracie. Later, Mason helps Gracie to find adoptive parents for the future
baby.
But
one day, Gracie is surprised after having stolen at the Capwell mansion
valuable stuffs that she will be easily able to resell
thereafter. Understanding, Julia accepts her excuses. On his side, Mason
does not believe her. He quickly understood that Gracie's motivations
are not as noble as they seem. As
more as one day, Gracie falls in tears. She does not understand that the
future adoptive parents of her child will not allow her in the future to
come to see him. Moreover, they will even end up by purely and simply
refusing the adoption, in front of this too invading mother. In fact,
Gracie has another idea in head : she would like that her child is
adopted by Mason and Julia. Because she heard one of their conversations
: Julia would like to adopt a child because all their attempts to have a
second one get unfruitful. And while they talk about the arrangement
projects of Samantha's old room, Gracie dreams of the future adoption.
While
investigating on Gracie, Mason realizes that, since the beginning, the
teenager lies to them. And in front of Mason's anger, Gracie is well
obliged to acknowledge the truth to them. She is not pregnant of a
soldier. The child she is waiting is well her boy friend's : Billy
Beacham. It is besides him who had the idea that she sleeps with another
man, in the only purpose to claim to him some money later. Shocked by
such a behavior, Mason and Julia decide to send Gracie back home. This
is why the day before Ted and Lily's wedding, they accompany her at the
airport. But Julia always remains very worried by the teenager's fate.
On
her side, Gracie then pretends to be in labour. And instead of taking
the plane, she is urgently led to the Santa Barbara hospital. Understanding that she has just lied
to them once again, Mason and Julia get mad at her. In front of their
anger, Gracie acknowledges to them that she dreams to see them adopting
her child, because they will be able to bring to him all the love and
all these small things that a child needs. These remarks deeply touch
Julia who, inside of her, understands the desires of the young girl.
At
the time of the last episode of Santa Barbara, Gracie gives birth to a little boy named Chester. Mason and
Julia finally agree to adopt him. Julia is ravished. The more so
as, as she learns it to Mason, that will make
them three children, since she is pregnant.
Gracie is happy of the evolution of her
life. She knows that Chester will be happy and that she will be able to
see him again during her life...
Portrait
written for this site by Lilian
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