CHARACTER SKETCH

 

 

 

NAME LOUISE MARTHA BRADFORD NELSON

 

NICKNAME NONE

 

APPEARANCE ALL AMERICAN GIRL TYPE

 

HAIR –STYLE-COLOR-TYPE-TEXTURE RED

 

 

EYES –GLASSES-CONTACTS- BLUE

 

WEIGHT UNKONWN

 

COLORING FAIR  

 

HEIGHT ABOUT 4’5”

 

BUILD SMALL (IN FACT, IT WAS SAID THAT EVERYONE WAS AMAZED SHE COULD HAVE SUCH A BIG BABY!-ME, NOT EDITH. WE WERE BOTH BORN BEFORE WE WERE EXPECTED. NO DR’S OR HOSPITALS FOR US. SO NO IDEA HOW MUCH WE ACTUALLY WIEGHED. THEY DIDN’T BOTHER WITH THINGS LIKE THAT BACK THEN. IT WAS A FAIT ACCOMPI SO WHY BOTHER.

 

FACIAL FEATURES –LIPS, EYEBROWS, LASHES, JAW LINE, NOSE

I REMEMBER THAT SHE EITHER HAD SHARPLY PLUCKED EYEBROWS AND THAT THEY WERE SO FAIR, THEY BLENDED IN WITH HER PEACHES AND CREAM SKIN SO THAT SOMETIMES IT APPEARED SHE DIDN’T HAVE ANY.

 

 

VOICE –ACCENT – WAY OF TALKING DEFINITIVE MASSACHUSETT’S ACCENT.

 

FAMILY ME, EDITH (A MID LIFE SURPRIZE PREGNANCY), HER MOTHER, FATHER, GRANDPARENTS, MY FATHER, HIS PARENTS, HIS GRANDPARENTS, SISTERS, BROTHERS, THEIR FAMILIES, THE LIST GOES ON. ONE OF MY AUNTIES DID A FAMILY TREE AND IT TURNED OUT THERE WAS A BIT OF INTERMARRIAGE  BETWEEN COUSINS WAY BACK, BUT NOTHING TOO SHOCKING. THEN THE TRAIN CRASH WIPED THE ENTIRE FAMILY OUT, EXCEPT FOR ME AND EDITH. I WAS IN THE NAVY AT THE TIME, AND BECAME EDITH’S GUARDIAN. THOSE WERE HARD DAYS FOR BOTH OF US.

 

CONNECTION TO ME MOTHER

 

BEST FRIENDS/ENEMIES LOVING MOTHER, BUT DUE TO HER STATUS AS A NELSON, A NANNY WAS A NECESSITY. SHE WASN’T PLEASED ABOUT IT, AS SHE’D BEEN RAISED BY HER OWN PARENTS AND DIDN’T LIKE THE IDEA. BUT MY FATHER AND HIS PARENTS INSISTED ON TO TAKE CARE OF ‘PESKY DETAILS’, HENSE, IN MY EARLY YEARS,  I SPENT MORE TIME WITH MRS.POPHAM THAN MY PARENTS.

 

BUT EVEN WHEN MRS. POPHAM COMPLAINED THAT I WAS A NAUGHTY BOY (HEY, I WAS!) MY MOTHER ALWAYS SPENT AS MUCH TIME AS SHE COULD WITH ME, ALLOWED ME PLACES OTHER HIGH SOCIETY PARENTS WOULDN’T HAVE ALLOWED, AND HELD ME CLOSE AND TOLD ME SHE LOVED ME, ‘WARTS AND ALL’.

 

ETHNIC/CULTURAL BACKGROUND ENGLISH, SCOTTISH. CLAIMED DESCENT FROM THE MAYFLOWER SETTLERS, LONG BEFORE FATHER’S SIDE OF THE FAMILY CAME OVER,  BUT I DON’T RECALL NOR DID I EVER FIND IT IMPORTANT. PERHAPS I SHOULD CHECK THE ATTIC FOR MY AUNT’S FAMILY TREE NOTES.

 

SCHOOLING HIGH SCHOOL BUT NEVER GRADUATED DUE TO A BOUT WITH INFLUENZA WHICH ALMOST KILLED HER. SHE DIDN’T BOTHER TO GO BACK WHEN ALL HER FRIENDS HAD ALREADY FINISHED AND GONE.

 

OCUPATIONS PRESENT-PREVIOUS WITH A COMFORTABLE CHILDHOOD AND SOCIETY WEDDING, NO NEED TO WORK. SHE MADE SURE, HOWEVER, TTHAT I SAW FIRST HAND HOW ‘THE OTHER HALF HAD TO LIVE’,SO I WOULDN’T GET ‘ABOVE MYSELF’, OR COMPLACENT, AND WE SPENT A GREAT DEAL OF TIME SERVING AS VOLUNTEERS FOR SEVERAL CHARITIES.

 

HOBBIES NEEDLEWORK

 

 

POLITICAL PREFERENCES SHE DIDN’T BOTHER HERSELF WITH POLITICS. IT WAS ENOUGH FOR HER THAT HER MOTHER HAD BEEN A SUFFRAGETTE, AND SHE COULD VOTE IF SHE WANTED TO. I DON’T RECALL THAT SHE EVER DID, AT LEAST NEITHER SHE OR MY FATHER MENTIONED.

 

LIKES FLOWERS. SHE WOULD OFTEN PURCHASE THE MOST BEAUTIFUL FLOWERS BUT INSTEAD OF BRINGING THEM HOME, SHE WOULD GO TO THE VARIOUS CEMETARIES AND HONOR THE DECEASED. SOME OF THE PEOPLE BURIED WERE RELATIVES, BUT A LOT WERE PEOPLE NOBODY KNEW ANYTHING ABOUT. THAT ALWAYS SADDENED HER.

 

 

DISLIKES PROFANITY IN ANY FORM. SHE ALSO MADE SURE THAT HER CHILDREN WERE ALLOWED AND ENCOURAGED TO EAT AND PLAY IN THE SAME DINING ROOM WHERE SHE AND FATHER HAD THEIR BREAKFAST, AND SOMETIMES DINNER. (THEY OFTEN WENT OUT FOR THE EVENINGS.)

 

MOVIES/BOOKS/PLAYS LOUISA MAE ALCOTT’S STORIES

 

 

FOODS PLAIN GOOD FOOD, BUT SHE ALSO BECAME QUITE FOND OF THE LATEST HAUTE CUSINE DISHES. SHE TAUGHT ME ABOUT ESCARGO. I THOUGHT IT WAS THE MOST HORRIBLE THING I’D EVER TASTED. TO THIS DAY, I’M NOT SURE IF SHE REALLY LIKED IT, OR SIMPLY HAD TO PRETEND TO LIKE IT, FOR APPEARANCES SAKE WITH ALL OF FATHER’S BUSINESS ASSOCIATES.

 

SPORTS NONE THAT I KNOW OF

 

FEARS/PHOBIAS SHE ACTUALLY HAD A PREMONITION ABOUT A TRAIN CRASH AND DIDN’T WANT TO GO ON THAT TRIP. FATHER’S FATHER TOLD HER THAT IT WAS RIDICULOUS NOT TO GO BASED ON A SILLY DREAM. I FOUND THIS OUT LATER FROM THE BUTLER.  IF ONLY...

 

QUIRKS NONE THAT I KNOW OF

 

CHARACTER FLAWS SHE WAS PRETTY MUCH PERFECT IN MY ESTIMATION.

 

FAVORITE EXPRESSIONS/ TYPICAL GESTURES ‘SWEETIE’ (TO ME) ‘DUMPLING’ (TO EDITH)

 

CHILDHOOD/TEEN MEMORY NONE

 

ROLE MODEL YES, FOR CHARITABLE ORGANIZATIONS

 

TEN WORDS TO SUM UP WHAT I THINK OF THIS PERSON

UNCONDITIONAL LOVE, AN ANGEL ON EARTH.

 

TEN WORDS HOW THIS PERSON AFFECTED MY LIFE

INSTRUCTED ME IN HOW TO USE MY TALENTS AND MONEY FOR THE BENEFIT OF OTHERS, INSTEAD OF SITTING ON MY LAURELS AND WASTING MY LIFE AWAY.

 

WHAT I’D SAY TO THIS PERSON IF WE MET TODAY

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU

 

WHAT I WISH I HADN’T SAID /DONE TO THIS PERSON

I’M SURE I DID, BUT I CAN’T THINK RIGHT NOW.