Eva’s parents always called her Genevieve when she was younger and that’s how she was identified when Regan met her at summer camp. When she started junior high, she switched to using her first name, which she preferred.
Eva Genevieve Perrin in Tacoma, Washington, 1969.
After she returned from camp, her father was transferred at work and the family relocated to Tacoma. Consequently, she never received any of the letters Regan sent her. Over time, she mostly forgot about the girl she befriended at camp.
Eva Perrin (Genevieve) outside Seattle Art Academy, 2013.
When the Star Childe exhibition opened in Seattle, this jogged Eva’s memory and she went to the Academy to view the paintings she inspired. While there, she meets the young woman whose mother was inspired by the paintings to create her.
Genevieve meets the person who inspired the paintings that inspired her.
Genevieve visited the Gallery while in Seattle, never imagining she would meet the woman Regan used as the model for the Star Childe.
G. M. Lupo (ISNI: 0000 0005 0315 9196) is a native of Atlanta, Georgia where he has always had a dysfunctional relationship with his hometown. His most recent published work is the novel Another Mother. He is also the author of Atlanta Stories: Fables of the New South and Reconstruction. Along with his novel, Rebecca, Too (2018), and his full-length play Another Mother, these constitute his Expanded Universe of Fictional Atlanta. He has also released a collection of essays, poetry, and stories entitled Words Words Words (2020).
He was the winner of the 2017 Essential Theatre Play Writing Award for Another Mother which had its world premiere in his home neighborhood of West End in August 2017, in the building that once housed the library where he learned to read as a child.
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