I have to admit UKGuy and proust20,
You both had me going with this one.
Are we really talking about “Do you peel and eat a banana or do you peel, cut with a knife and eat it with a fork?”
All joking aside, yes PR wanted to be loved and adored and she put her best foot forward (at least in her mind) to accomplish this. We need to look at where PR was born and raised (Parkersburg, West Virginia) to get a full grasp of her. There is an eye opener with Wikipedia. Research the churches in the area as well. Perhaps, simply perhaps she got a taste for the dramatic here. Who knows, but we can’t deny she had it in spades.
UKGuy,
That focus of PR was also driven by Nedra. One only needs to look at that women to understand she was a force to be reckoned with. Speaking of which ~ wondering what the big fat cat, DP was up to? Brings me back to why PR put on airs? Did she not measure up within her own family? Seems to me that NP was pulling the reigns in this household. Along with JR of course. PR was sick, she had just been handed a death sentence. One has to come to terms with that. Now she had her hands all tightened up in JB ligature, her paint tray, the surrounding carpet, the white blanket, the duct tape … not the panty drawer. Then of course we have the true bills. There is punishable guilt found here. The PR story is tragic because of her involvement with what took place that night. I haven’t visited the Smoky mountains but know people from there. You can tell a lot about a person if you know where they are from.
Just so I can get a clearer picture what is this referring to?
Rain on my Parade,
That focus of PR was also driven by Nedra. One only needs to look at that women to understand she was a force to be reckoned with. Speaking of which ~ wondering what the big fat cat, DP was up to? Brings me back to why PR put on airs? Did she not measure up within her own family? Seems to me that NP was pulling the reigns in this household. Along with JR of course. PR was sick, she had just been handed a death sentence. One has to come to terms with that. Now she had her hands all tightened up in JB ligature, her paint tray, the surrounding carpet, the white blanket, the duct tape … not the panty drawer. Then of course we have the true bills. There is punishable guilt found here. The PR story is tragic because of her involvement with what took place that night. I haven’t visited the Smoky mountains but know people from there. You can tell a lot about a person if you know where they are from.
Yes, what NP never realized was that Patsy had arrived and wanted to move beyond the pageant circuit. NP would not allow this to happen, along with her two sisters, Patsy was pulled into NP's orbit.
Patsy had the money to bankroll JonBenet with extras for NP and the sisters, but really Patsy was attempting to reinvent herself as a socialite, not a pageant mum, something which exemplified success for NP.
Even DP bought into the pageant circuit he adored Shirley Temple and this ideal was passed onto JonBenet via videotapes purchased by PR or NP?
A useless, exotic fact: Andy Warhol wrote to Shirley Temple requesting an autograph which he received by return post on a Shirley Temple photograph. Presumably standard Hollywood PR stuff.
Until the day she passed Patsy's ambition was to literally paint out the tragic aspects of her life.
Just so I can get a clearer picture what is this referring to?
Beneath the public tragic JonBenet persona that came to characterise Patsy, there was a creative, artistic person trying to escape.
To this end, after JonBenet's funeral and the move to Georgia, she intensified her interest in painting.
She completed many paintings, had numerous showings, etc. I've actually seen some of her works for sale on the internet, which included her portraits of Burke and JonBenet.
Here is the tragic part: Patsy had booked a booth at the Charlevoix’s Summer Solstice Art Show where she intended to display her art work.
But her health deteriorated, and she remained in suburban Atlanta and died just hours before the show began.