So with her fame going up, Duchess received an odd message.
From Anabelle Strong.
And she showed up too.
Duchess wasn't bitter abour Anabelle trying to sabotage her wedding so they had a good chat together.
Another Strong came around too.
Well half Strong. Shyer Goldsmith came home from school with April.
It was a lovely time with the Strongs.

Later Duchess got yet another phone call with a job offer, for an astronaut position. She clearly denied.
She also got a phone call with the notification of her friend Hayley McClendon's death. She was still mourning Christian so now she was so so sad. She didn't wanna be that way so she went to get therapy tosort out her negative emotions. When she got home, she planned to watch a film with Gardenia as everyone else had gone to bed already.
Ooh.
No! Mum is dying!
Feeling sad.
And angry.
That darn Grim Reaper!
Gardenia jumped right in the action.
She strengthened the connection of mum's spirit to the living world and headed down to the graveyard and placed the gravestone there.
She met a foremother of hers - Alissa. She was angry and making a mess at the Goldsmith resting place. Gardenia gave out to her a little for it.

Next day, it was The Lottery day.
But Barone felt anything like he had won the lettery.
He did buy the ticket though. The girls were too young apparently to buy one so they weren't interested in the holiday.

Barone sent a sad text to his sis Katra.
Sounds good.
They had a chat and went out to a cafe.
But when they got there Katra ran off with some guy and had did some sexy winter streaking. Barone met Dawson though. He was Duchess' friend and also Barone's co-worker.
So they reminisced about the beautiful, great woman.