Spring 2006 Review

Lucy was found in the back of her uncle's new Buick after a very hard poker game. Her aunt, Rhodi Sandoni, was the one who found her. In fact, Rhodi was the only aunt that Lucy trusted. When she was found in the back seat of the Buick, there was a piece of paper attached to the blanket that she was wrapped in, it said Lucy. Her aunts and uncles named her Lucretia, but Rhodi was the only one who called her by Lucy. At night when Lucy was little, Rhodi would whisper her name, Lucy Buick, to her to help her sleep and so that she would know, she wasn't a Sandoni, but a Buick. As Lucy got older, Rhodi would tell her to leave the Sandoni home and go out looking for the Buicks by using signs. Lucy was eighteen when Rhodi died, she had been the last aunt to die, but now Lucy was left in the hands of her greedy uncles. Her uncles had her whole entire future planned out, who she would marry, where she would work, and how much money she would give to them. On a Saturday, Lucy made her way to her uncles' nylon factory, but she never did get there. She went to get ice cream and walked through the park in New York. She was at the top of a hill, overlooking her uncles' factory when it blew up. She heard sirens everywhere, and she saw Rhodi, she never knew she could see the dead, but now she could. Rhodi told her to go and look for the Buicks and start a new life. Lucy boarded a train in search of the Buicks, but not sure what or whom she was looking for. After a few days of riding trains and sleeping, Lucy was visited again by Rhodi who told her to keep looking, but later when her other aunts appeared they told her to go back to her uncles because they needed her. Lucy showed them the newspaper article claiming that she was dead; that she died in the factory explosion. Her aunts protested only because their brothers were going to open up a strip club, Lucy only laughed, she knew that wouldn't last long. One day a man named Brian boarded the train. Brian and Lucy quickly became friends, but Brian was getting off at Iowa. Lucy was planning to go to California, but she got off in Iowa also, only Brian didn't know that. In Iowa, Lucy met many people that she would never forget if she were to leave, but she never did, because she found the Buicks. They weren't what she expected, but she found them, at last.