Oh Dear

Rose Parker passed quietly one night, never having required custodial or hospice care. The support Ray received from his father and his adopted son, Manny Morris, was admirable. Erin and Miller weathered the gossip and had three normal children and a wonderful life together. Gaye and Jay were married and gloried in their "second lives," based on (of all things) love. Nora and Jaque did not marry but continued to love each other. Vanessa hadn't asked if Jaque were her biological father. When and if she did . . . Gino Capetti declined to press charges against his captors. Before his trial was to begin, he feigned the symptoms of acute appendicitis. Though in a lock ward at the hospital, his visiting doctor looked enough like Gino that Gino rendered him unconscious, changed into the doctor's clothes, and was released unknowingly. Ten minutes later, when the doctor stumbled out of the room, Gino had disappeared. Gino's guard was given a new assignment, walking a beat in an obscure part of town. Gino's plan was to get to Mexico, have his face changed, and return to Jacksonville to repay the Ortegas for their "hospitality." Before leaving town, he managed to get an old bicycle, which he left at the gate entry to the Ortega complex. Nora correctly interpreted the implication.