I was walking with Jacqueline yesterday...something we literally do every day...and she started talking about St. Lucy. Which, come to think of it, is also something we do every day. Several times a day, actually. At any rate...
Jacqueline was asking me if we were going to go back to the Bronx to visit St. Lucy's Church. (We've been there three times so far.) I told her that we would, then she launched into one of her set pieces.
"St. Lucy's going to be transformed back into a church!" she told me. You see, in Jacqueline's cosmology, St. Lucy is a doll (several different dolls, actually...and six or seven statues as well), the Real St. Lucy (from history), and the Church of St. Lucy. Sometimes St. Lucy the doll uses her Church Powers and becomes the church. Other times she is forced to become a church by the evil St. William (the church Jacqueline's mom belongs to; Jacqueline regularly says that St. Willian is a mean and hateful church--for no apparent reason) and his cohort, Thunderella--who comes from the Filmation movie Happily Ever After (1989).
I responded to Jacqueline's assertion that "St. Lucy's going to be transformed back into a church!" by asking, "Can't she use her Church Powers to transform herself?"
Jacqueline concurred that that was, indeed, the case, so I thought I would extend the conversation by asking, "What other powers does St. Lucy have? Can she fly?"
Jacqueline gave me one of those What Kind of Idiot Are You Looks and said, "Dolls can't fly!"
So now I know.
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