Oh, look! It’s FIONA JOHNSON! I heard they’re [30], a [CIS-FEMALE, use SHE/HER pronouns, have been in town for THIRTY and are actually from BRIDGEPORT, MAINE. They are currently working as a/an/the BLUE ANCHOR LIGHTHOUSE and living in OLD BRIDGEPORT. You know, I personally think they look like VICTORIA PEDRETTI, but that’s crazy, right?

BIOGRAPHY

Triggers in Bio: addiction, drugs, alcohol, death

With addicts as parents, Fiona learned to thrive in a dysfunctional household. Other little girls learned to braid their hair, but not her. Forced to take care of her two younger siblings, Fiona knew the best way to steal dinner from the grocery stores without getting caught. Tiffany and Terry made it nearly impossible for her and her siblings to have a normal childhood, yet the children found ways to be happy. For their birthdays, Fiona would skip school and buy a box of cake mix with a bag of quarters she would get from busting a washer machine at the Soap Opera Laundromat. The cake, delicious and prettily decorated with the berries she would steal from the Rhodes farm, made them all squeal with laughter as the Johnson children sang ‘Happy Birthday.’ The Johnson kids loved each other and they manage to turn their sad situation into a whimsical one. It was them against the world.

While Fiona has had enough reason to hate her parents, her heart ached for their love and attention. To the age of thirteen, she would follow Terry around the house as he smoked cigarette after cigarette, ranting over some bad business he got himself into. Tiffany’s hair would be stroked as she puked her brains out after night of binge drinking. And Fiona would have continued loving her parents if Tiffany hadn’t shattered her world in one thoughtless, inebriated sentence. She wasn’t her father’s daughter. During a heated fight, Tiffany had bailed on the family for a few days, sleeping with whoever welcomed her in their bed, and nine months later, Fiona was came into the world kicking and screaming. Not a single soul, other than Tiffany and Fiona, knows the truth. Not wanting to accept it, Fiona never confronted her mother about it. It’s a secret she has never been brave enough to speak about.

Despite the chaos and instability at home, Fiona excelled in her education as it was the one thing she felt she had control over. She used school to distract herself from the realities at home. Every A gave a sense of peace. She was more than just her dysfunctional family. There was a promised that she could be like one of those shiny girls that had their whole life together. The type of girl who would study marine biology and swim with the octopuses. But she grew hard and cynical. Life wasn’t supposed to be easy. Not for girls like her. Plus, she had her younger siblings to look after. So she quietly gave up her dream to become a marine biologist and stayed in her small town.

From the age of sixteen, Fiona worked at the fish market, cleaning and selling fish at the Blue Harbor Fish Market. There was where she met the old groundskeeper of the Blue Anchor Lighthouse, over the transaction of two lobsters and the homemade blueberry pie she made to pay for her younger sibling’s field-trip. He fascinated her. Her fascination around his weathered face and the intrinsic way he just knew a storm was coming made her wonder at times if he was her father. They soon became friends. Fascinated with the tender way the groundskeeper took care of the lighthouse, Fiona begged him to hire her as his assistant. Reluctantly, he gave her a job and soon enough he filled in the shoes of grandfather. A fact she would never confirm to anyone. While the pay had been shit, she stayed on, and quietly worked beside him, barely giving each other one worded responses. In her fifth year being the groundskeeper’s assistant, Fiona found him dead in his armchair, his tea ice cold from the night before.

Now the groundskeeper, Fiona keeps to herself busy working on upkeep the lighthouse. She hasn’t much inspirations in life but to keep her siblings safe and to one day swim with the octopuses.

Oh, look! It’s [ THOMAS STUART ]! I heard they’re [ 40 ], a [ NON BINARY ], use [ HE+THEY } pronouns, have been in town for [ EIGHTEEN YEARS ] and are actually from [ LONDON, ENGLAND ]. They are currently working as a [ PROFESSOR OF HISTORY AT HEYWOOD UNIVERSITY ] and living in [ LIBERTY HILLS ]. You know, I personally think they look like [ TOM HIDDLESTON ], but that’s crazy, right?

BIOGRAPHY

Triggers in Bio: None

thomas wasn’t born into a loving family, or loved as a child should be, he wasn’t conceived out of love. he was conceived out of the pressure and the martial duty between man and wife. he didn’t cry within the first moments of life outside the womb, his eyes closed but his mouth was wide in silent screams. the lights inside the room flickered as the late halloween night’s sky lit up with lightning, it was until a rumble was heard, and felt, that he seemed to remember, or learned to cry in those moments of fair, that his first wail was heard. in the months, years and decades that followed he took his time in all things, never in a hurry for anything. in the eyes of his mother and father, this was a curse, but in the eyes of thomas it was a blessing. his parents were, and always had been, workaholics. they spent more time worrying about ignoring each other, and not crossing paths to worry about him. the nursery and the nannies were the only comfort to thomas, but it was also filled with coldness. it took two more years before his sister was welcomed into the world, he was only a toddler when she was welcomed into the world. but he greeted her with babbling and giggles. and as they grew they grew close, being each other’s best friend. they shared everything from their favorite colors, books and food with each other. it was often joked that if you saw one of them, the other wasn’t far behind. this bond helped thomas as he grew into a teenager.

the next decade of thomas’s life were short, but the days were long. he was both the popular person but also didn’t quite fit in. his interest were different, he wasn’t into girls and he didn’t have a singular personality trait of the sports he was playing. he was also kind, in a world that was so cruel. he would often give others the shirt off of his back and not want anything in return. he played sports from baseball to basketball, he had his toes in just about everything it kept his mind and soul at ease to be busy. he excelled in everything he put him mind to, and his marks made him of the very brightest in the school. and he knows he should be happy about this, he had everything but still there was a coldness that never truly thawed out, his parents still were married but were never home. they both preferred to live in their townhouses closer to the city. but now he can see past that lie, they just didn’t want to see each other. another thing happened to thomas he never thought would happen, he and his sister grew apart. but it was nice to know that if he needed anything she would be there. and finally thomas graduated from secondary school, it almost felt as though his life was ending but he knew there were beginnings in ends. he took a gap year, touring the world on his parent’s money. it was the first gift they had ever given to him. he started in europe, backpacking through the alps and finishing on the shores of greek beaches. he had never felt so alive before looking out into the calm water. he next toured the middle east, russia, asia, the americas and then ending in new zealand. it was a bittersweet end for him, but he felt more prepared and ready for university. on the first day he can’t help but feel overwhelmed, and thinking he had made a mistake. but then he met someone, and he changed everything. thomas can’t help but feel scared about his feelings, what if the other doesn’t feel the same? so thomas keeps his feelings to himself, and with each day he can feel his strength falling. he doesn’t want to ruin the friendship. and one day its too much for thomas, he’s fallen hard, and he kisses them. and to his surprise they kiss him back. and everything after that is history. thomas graduates from university with an engineering and history degree, and once again there’s a beginning in the end.

it doesn’t take them long to figure out the united kingdom isn’t where they want to call home, and like centuries before they cross the atlantic and land on the soil of the united states. there’s something in the vastness of the land that makes it feel exciting, and thomas begins his career as an engineer but quickly realizing that it wasn’t the dream he had, teaching was and he quickly turned down that lane. a routine was soon fallen into and the two welcome in six children. they’re the apple of his eyes, thomas driving the kids to and from soccer practice, to helping them all learn to drive a car. it seemed every moment with the kids, and your husband, is better than the last one, but they can’t be small forever. soon they all fly the nest. its just thomas and his husband now in their home on the shore of the beach, but there’s still never a dull moment, or a moment of doubt when love surrounds them.

Oh, look! It’s [Beathe Thompson]! I heard they’re [24], a [Female], use [She/Her] pronouns, have been in town for [1 week] and are actually from [Boston, Massachusetts]. They are currently working as a [Cashier at Much Ado About Books] and living in [Old Lymemouth]. You know, I personally think they look like [Kristine Frøseth], but that’s crazy, right?

BIOGRAPHY

Triggers in Bio: Divorce

Beathe Thompson was born and raised, alongside her older sister Shelby, in Boston, Massachusetts. Growing up, she was always a quiet child, whom from the time she could read had her head buried in a book. She spent a lot of time in the public library reading whenever her mother brought her along for her weekly shopping trip over the weekend it got to a point where Bea was on a first name basis with the librarians working there.  She overall remembers having had a happy childhood, despite their parents almost constant fighting. She  had a close relationship with her older sister, who always did her best trying to shield her from it whenever it got really bad, by playing board games or watching movies together in their bedroom. As she got older, it came as no surprise the day they finally announced that they were getting a divorce. What she hadn’t expected was for it to get as messy as it did. One day she found herself being pulled into court and asked whom she’d rather be going to live with. Already knowing Shelby had picked their father, she didn’t  have the heart to let her mother be on her own, so they eventually packed up their suit cases and moved to New York.  

Moving to a big a city as New York came as kind of overwhelming at first. It took a while for the shy girl to settle in and make friends, but once she did things kind of started to fall into place from there, or at least so it seemed. Her mother had just started going out with a guy she had met while attending some kind of event she had managed to get invited to and not long after he moved them to live with him in Manhattan. Her mother, always having dreamt of becoming a socialite and live a life in luxury, was finally able to take on the social scene of New York, meanwhile Bea was once again trying her best to navigate life on the Upper East Side, one that she never really found herself fitting into. Not only was she finding it hard to fit in, but she was also missing her older sister a lot as the two had kind of lost touch over the years since the divorce. She therefore found it easier to focus on her studies and grades instead of the things she lacked or missed. Once Bea graduated from high school, she was accepted to NYU on a scholarship to major in English Literature.

  In college, things kind of started to fall back into place again for Bea. She started making friends again within her program and even began socializing more outside of focusing on her studies. She even attended a few parties, but she never let things get  out of hand or feeling like she wasn’t ever in control. Her studies remained a priority to her, as she felt like she had too much to loose if she didn’t. When she eventually graduated with a 3.5 GPA, for the first time in her life Bea didn’t have a plan. Her mother was too busy with her new life to pay much attention to her, which she in all fairness had been since they made the move to Manhattan, or even New York in general. Her mind had, however, started to wander a lot to her sister, and eventually she reached out. She found out that she was living in Bridgeport, Maine, and after some consideration, Bea packed up some of her stuff and made the trip up there; uncertain of what the future might have in store for her.

Oh, look! It’s [Conor Thomas Rhodes]! I heard they’re [Thirty Eight], a [Male], use [He/Him] pronouns, have been in town for [His whole life] and are actually from [Bridgeport]. They are currently working as a/an/the [Construction worker at I&K Construction] and living in [Point Breeze]. You know, I personally think they look like [Andrew Garfield], but that’s crazy, right? 

BIOGRAPHY

Triggers in Bio: Death 

Conor Thomas Rhodes was born to two amazing parents in Bridgeport, Maine. Conor was the oldest Rhodes kid, and the only boy which meant he got to help take care of his two little sisters. Conor wasn’t a softy; in fact, he was the opposite of a softy. He was always tough, he was the quiet, don’t fuck with me kid growing up. But when it came to Olivia and Rosemary, they had him wrapped around his finger from a young age and he was like a walking teddy bear when they were around. Family meant the world to Conor something his mother Leanne and father Malcolm instilled in him from a young age.

As a child he could always be found at the baseball field. He loved everything about the game of baseball. The boy was a natural at the game from a young age, and everyone swore up and down he was going to go pro. His favorite baseball team was the New York Yankees, and he even swore one day he’d be the biggest pitcher to ever play for them. With how well he played no one ever doubted him.

In high school, Conor was like the real-life Troy Bolton. He was a star on the field, but he was also a star off the field. Conor was born to two parents that had more talent in their pinky than most people do in their whole body. Conor inherited that and was performing every chance he could. He wasn’t a good dancer, which was a hard pill to swallow when you watched his sister and his mother. But boy could Conor sing, he had a voice like no other. Think if James Bay and Luke Combs had a vocal baby, you’d get Conor. He was also super talented with the guitar and piano. Everyone still thought he was going to go pro, and pitch in the MLB but as Conor got older the more, he realized he wanted to make music. Without telling anyone but his parents he applied to Drexel University, Berklee College of Music (Spain), Bellmont University, and Carnegie Mellon University. Fortunately for Conor he was accepted to all the colleges he applied to and with the support and love from his family he chose to attend Berklee College of Music in Spain majoring in Music Production.

While attending Berklee College of Music Conor met Mariana Gutiérrez a beautiful Spanish girl from the local café next to the college. Conor tried for months to get her to go on a date with him, and every time he asked, she said no. But he knew from the minute he met her she’d be the one he married. With no luck he’d call his sister Olivia daily for advice on what to do, and finally with the right words of advice he managed to get a date with her. Conor and Mariana continued to date for all four years of his time in Spain. After his graduation he accepted an internship at Universal Music Group in Los Angeles, Mariana leaving behind Spain and going with him.

After one year in an internship in Los Angeles, Conor was offered a permanent job at UMG as a board operator. If you asked Conor when he first graduated high school if he accepted to live away from home for this long, he would have said no. But he knew that he loved what he did, and he was meant to be here in this moment. Plus, he flew home for every holiday, all the birthdays and any vacation he went on was always to Bridgeport.

Conor and Mariana spent seven years in Los Angeles, when he was offered the head music producer position at Roofless Records in Miami. For the next seven years Conor and Mariana lived in Miami. He proposed to her and less than two weeks after proposing they found out they were pregnant. Everything was going great, they visited Bridgeport and they visited Spain before they had the baby, because they knew they wouldn’t be able to travel anytime soon after having the baby. The birth of their daughter came, and Mariana tragically passed during delivery. Conor’s heart broke into a million pieces, but he knew he had to be strong and hold his head up high for their beautiful little girl Elena (Shining Light) Olivia Rhodes because she was a shining light in the time of such darkness. Conor took Elena to Spain for the burial of Mariana, and so she could meet her mother’s family before heading home to Bridgeport to be close to his family.

Four years later, and he’s currently residing in Point Breeze with his four-year-old baby girl Elena. They say time heals the wounds, but Conor is still waiting for that time to come.

Oh, look! It’s [NIA NADAL-GYLINSKI]! I heard they’re [40], a[CIS-FEMALE], use[SHE/HER] pronouns, have been in town for [TWO WEEKS] and are actually from [NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK]. They are currently working as a [HOUSE KEEPER AT EMERALD BAY INN & RECEPTIONIST AT THE DANCE STUDIO] and living in [OCEAN SHORES TOWNHOMES]. You know, I personally think they look like [ANTONIA THOMAS], but that’s crazy, right? 

BIOGRAPHY

Triggers in Bio: death tw, widow tw , first responder tw, depression tw, pregnancy struggle tw

New York was a big city for girls with big dreams, and while most people in New York dreamed of being a dancer, a Broadway star, or a model, Nia’s parents just dreamed of having a daughter of their own. While their friends and family had always been the ones to provide the children for the family gatherings, the Nadal’s wanted nothing more than to bare their own child.

So, on the couples tenth wedding anniversary - just two weeks shy of Nia’s mother’s thirty second birthday - she found out she was pregnant with their only child, who they would later find out was a beautiful baby girl. Nia was born just shy of nine months later in the middle of June.

Nia grew up in a house that always told her she was loved, beautiful, and could do anything she set her mind to. So, from a young age, Nia was inspired to do whatever she set her mind to. She was your average A/B student, showing an interest in extracurriculars as well. Though, while she showed an interest in almost everything she did, her big thing that she loved to do was bake with her mom. To Nia, there was nothing more enjoyable than cooking with her mom.

As she grew, Nia’s love for cooking turned into baking, and while she had began to master the recipes her mom would share with her, by the age of 10 she was baking her own recipes, selling them at lemonade stands with the local neighborhood kids. She didn’t make much, but simply knowing that others were enjoying what she spent ours enjoying was more than she could ever ask for.

Though, when Nia turned 15 she met Steven Gylinski, the man that would grow to be the love of her life. The two met in a science class - they were actually science partners - and it didn’t take long for the two strangers to become friends, and then turn into lovers. They were inseparable, and it wasn’t likely that you saw one without the other.

Graduation day hit and of course where Steven went, Nia followed; he joined the fire academy and six months later became a firefighter for NYC. Nia - who was in school earning an associate’s degree for business management - by his side the whole time.

Life for Nia and Steven couldn’t feel more perfect, and before they knew it, they were happily married - an elopement ceremony with them and their immediate families as they didn’t want anything too extravagant, just a celebration of their love - and they were living in a small one bedroom apartment by the age of 19.

Before they knew it, they were ten years into their marriage and couldn’t be happier. Kids had never really been something they’d talked a lot about, however, the farther into their life together, the more Nia longed for a child, a small infant that was part her and part Steven. Though despite how much the two of them tried, Nia could conceive; several visits to the doctor and they diagnosed her with the inability to conceive. Heart broken that the two would never get to enjoy a tiny version of themselves, they moved on with their lives, enjoying as much time together as they could.

Life for them was simple; spend time together, make time for friends, and as they grew together, their love to host others continued to grow as well. Days working would turn into dinner parties and movie marathons with their friends, or even double dates with their friends and their significant others. But they wouldn’t have traded it for anything in the world.

Nia got into baking; while her dream had always been to open a bakery she simply worked for the local bakery in New York; custom ordered cakes and smaller sweet treats were her preference. But, at the end of the day, she was good at it; and most importantly something she loved.

Just when things were starting to feel normal, Nia’s world turned upside down. It was early one morning - barely a few hours into shift - when she got the call that a house call had turned worse than expected and her husband, Steven, had lost his life that day. Nia couldn’t breathe, couldn’t eat; every part of her felt broken and useless. She suffered for what felt like years, when in reality it was merely hours, all the while she was spiraling into a deep depression.

With some coaxing from her friends, Nia became able to cope a little more at a time, when she came to the realization to truly get over Steven, she needed to leave New York and her previous life behind, and with that, Nia packed up her things and moved without a seconds notice to anyone, landing in Bridgeport where she’s been for six months.

Nia works as a housekeeper for the Inn and is a receptionist for Olivia’s dance class; doing anything she can to keep herself distracted and busy as she learns to navigate life in a new city, and most importantly without the love of her life.

Oh, look! It’s [ROSEMARY RHODES]! I heard they’re [22], a [FEMALE], use [SHE/HER] pronouns, have been in town for [MOST OF HER CHILDHOOD] and are actually from [BRIDGEPORT, MAINE]. They are currently working as a/an/the [WEDDING PLANNER] and living in the [DOWNTOWN]. You know, I personally think they look like [BAILEE MADISON], but that’s crazy, right?

BIOGRAPHY

Rosemary Josephine Reynolds was born to two loving parents in Bridgeport, Maine. She was a bit of a miracle child for her parents, as she was accidentally conceived many years after her sister was born. Her mother had been told she couldn’t have any more children, and yet here Rosemary was coming into their family thirteen years afterward. From a young age she had looked up to her siblings, especially Olivia who she saw almost like a second mother. The two fought a lot at first, but then became closer as time went on. Although, sometimes she found it hard to relate to the others as they were so much older than she was. At every point in her life her siblings were already several steps ahead of her. Even still, family had always been important to the young girl as she spent a lot of time with not only her immediate family but also her grandparents.

As a child she could often be found on her family farm. She loved to play around in the sheep pen and make sure all the animals were getting attention. The woman was a natural with animals from a young age, and used to say that she wanted to be a veterinarian when she was older. Her favorite animal of all was the horse that her father purchased for her, which she could be found brushing and petting multiple times a day when she got a chance. It only made sense that she eventually went on to enter horse shows with the mare, and won many awards. Each step of the way her family supported her how they could.

In high school, Rosemary’s interest shifted slightly. She became more involved in clubs at school, and started to have a pretty active social life. She was the type of girl that people couldn’t help but like to be around. While she spent time with her parents, she started to grow more independent and realized that she wanted to see what the world could offer her. The young woman set her sights on going away for college so that she’d be able to be her own person for a while. She’d thought about maybe going to school internationally, but decided against it as she was scared to be that far away from home.

Instead she ended up going to Emory University where she could be a few states away from her home, but still on the same side of the country if anything went too badly. Which was good because she made that multi-day drive home many times in order to see her family. In the four years that she spent in Georgia, she studied business. While there she also joined a sorority where she fell into the habit of drinking probably a little more than she should, and spent a few more mornings hungover than she wanted to admit to.

After finishing college, Rosemary decided to move back home. She wanted to put her degree to use and decided to become a wedding planner as she always loved attending weddings. She thought there was something magical about getting to help people out on the happiest day of their life. The woman had always been a bit of a hopeless romantic. She was certain it was from watching the love between her parents her entire life.

Oh, look! It’s [CASEY SHEPPARD]! I heard they’re [44], a [MALE], use [HE/HIM] pronouns, have been in town for [6 months] and are actually from [NEW YORK CITY]. They are currently working as a [BOUNCER AT PITCH] and living in [DOWNTOWN BRIDGEPORT]. You know, I personally think they look like [BRADLEY COOPER], but that’s crazy, right?

BIOGRAPHY

Triggers in Bio: miscarriage, kidnapping, torture, violence, alcoholism, PTSD

Casey was born on January 19th, 1977 to Wesley and Lena Sheppard. After several attempts at miscarriages, his parents were finally able to conceive a child. However, Casey would be their only Rainbow Baby.

His childhood was pretty great. His parents really let him do whatever he wanted and could pursue just about anything he set his heart on. They wanted their son to be as happy as he could be.

School was pretty easy for Casey. He was an intelligent kid and excelled at academics.

Once he graduated, he didn’t really know what he wanted to do so he just putzed around from odd job to odd job. It was when he was working at gas station that got robbed and a police officer came in and saved the day that Casey decided he wanted to be a police officer as well.

At the age of twenty-two, he moved out Newark and joined the New York Police Department.

Quickly, Casey graduated from the academy and moved up to the ranks of the force. During that time, he also took some classes on the side to learn about criminal justice.

By the time he was twenty-nine, Casey was promoted to detective and was paired with an older detective named Patrick Murdoch.

Pat showed Casey the ropes of being a detective and the two soon went on to be one of the most successful teams the force had. They solved almost every case they were given.

There had been one case involved drug dealing that had turned cold and the two were never able to figure out what happened with them. However, about a year and a half ago, the crooks resurfaced. Casey told Pat immediately and the two went off to finally close the case after several years.

The case was far more than they ever realized. It was far more than just drug dealing. It was an operation to infiltrate different facilities around New York and steal from them.

Casey and Pat were taken hostage by the group and were held and tortured for hours, with the intent of getting a ransom from the NYPD. The group recorded the murder of Patrick and broadcasted it. From that video, the NYPD was able to track down and rescue Casey.

Now, Casey is still dealing with the aftermath of his kidnapping, torture and murder of his best friend. He copes mostly with drinking and going to therapy twice a week.

After months of therapy and rehabilitation, Casey was still not fit to return to the job as a detective. His CO encouraged Casey to leave New York and find a new place to restart. It was a hard decision but Casey agreed.

He randomly looked on the map and found Bridgeport, figuring a place like that would be a different start for him. So he packed up his things and made home there, working as a bouncer at Pitch.

Oh, look! It’s [LUCA RICCI]! I heard they’re [33], a [CIS MALE], use [HE/HIM] pronouns, have been in town for [HIS WHOLE LIFE] and are actually from [BRIDGEPORT]. They are currently working as a/an/the [FINANCE MANAGER] and living in [BREEZE POINT]. You know, I personally think they look like [TOBY REGBO], but that’s crazy, right? 

BIOGRAPHY

Luca Alberto Ricci was born the oldest sibling to the Ricci family. He was born in Bridgeport and hasn’t left. From a young age he had always wanted to protect those around him and keep them out of harm’s way, which was especially true when it came to his younger siblings. He was just the type of person that you could always rely on to do the right thing. From the time he was old enough, he started working in his parent’s grocery store to help them out after school. While some teenagers might have resented having to do this, he was more than happy to have a chance to spend more time with his family.

By the time he was in high school he was pretty convinced he was going to take over his parents business, so instead of going away for college he started to take online business courses so that he could stay close to home. Luca continued to work for his parents during college but took college part time while he did so. He moved into his own apartment only a few miles away from his childhood home and he eventually finished school with a degree in finance. After this he started to help not only his parents with their finances for their business but also many other local business owners.

Luca was young when he fell in love for the first time. He was the type of person who fell hard fast, and he was convinced that he was going to marry that girl. Unfortunately for Luca though, life doesn’t always go as planned. The young couple broke up very unexpectedly and that left him scrambling to figure out what the next steps were for him.

Luca spent the time after his first major breakup trying to improve himself as a person. He’d been left with the impression that maybe he just wasn’t enough. His entire life was spent trying to live up to other people’s expectations, and it had come as a blow that it was possible he wasn’t good enough. It was at this time that he started his own Financial Management company that started taking in clients slowly at first. He wasn’t sure if it was going to work out, but eventually he started getting clients not only from town but from all around the state.

Now Luca is doing really well for himself. His company has continued to expand over the years and now he has multiple people on his team. While he does enjoy the profits of all of his hard work Luca also donates a lot of money to local community projects because he believes in giving back to the community that has made him who he is today.

Oh, look! It’s [Dominic Hicks]! I heard they’re [27], a [Male], use [He/Him] pronouns, have been in town for [27 years] and are actually from [Bridgeport]. They are currently working as a/an/the [Firefighter] and living in [Old Lymemouth]. You know, I personally think they look like [Keith Powers], but that’s crazy, right?

Triggers in Bio: Parental death, fire, drugs, alcohol.

Being a Bridgeport native having been brought up in the neighborhood of Old Lymemouth already gave Dominic a kind of rough start to life. His mother was working part time while at school to finish up her college degree, while his father worked as a local fireman. He was the oldest out of a total of four siblings, so when he wasn’t in school, he was taking care of his younger siblings. When he reached the age of 13, the boy started working as a bagger at the local supermarket in order to help make ends meet, and almost all the money he made was put towards helping put food on the table and pay the bills. Hard work was something he learned early on in life would pay off, so he applied this to both his education and career. His determination to do well in life soon fainted when his father was killed in the line of duty after a massive fire broke out in an old building just outside of town. Loosing his father not only made him the man of the house, it also broke the boy who soon after started experimenting with both alcohol and drugs in order to numb the pain. He has always had a bit of a tempted which was only heightened after his fathers passing, causing him to get into a number of fights not only in school, but also outside. As a result, his grades started slipping and so did his motivation to keep going. It even got so bad, he was held back a year in high school as he didn’t pass his exams. That was kind of the wakeup call he needed, as he started to realize that his father would have wanted and expected more from him. It was the nudge he needed to try pull himself together as he decided to follow in his dad footsteps and become a firefighter himself, much to his mothers dismay.

Dominic ended up graduating from the same fire academy as his dad, and was lucky enough to be able to bag a position as one of the new recruits with the fire department in Bridgeport. However, even though he had always considered himself to be the man of the house, he hadn’t actually realized how much of a financial struggle they were in. When in high school, he had been told to try out boxing as a way to try deal with a lot of his pent up anger, which as a result had over the years made him pretty decent at it. So much so, he had been approached a few times by a few people asking him to fight for them illegally. Up until now, it was something he had rejected. However, when an opportunity arose after having seen the amount of money that was due to be paid for an upcoming bill, he decided to accept, thinking whatever winnings he might gain from it could help not only contribute towards the bills, but also his siblings future. Little did he know that a lot of the fights were rigged, and he wouldn’t always walk away with as much as he had been expecting, it was still a little extra cash for the family overall, so he stuck it out, not even sure if he’d be able to get out now, even if he wanted to.

Oh, look! It’s [ISLA RICCI]! I heard they’re [THIRTY ONE], a [FEMALE], use [SHE/HER] pronouns, have been in town for [5 years] and are actually from [BRIDGEPORT]. They are currently working as an [ASSISTANT] and living in [DOWNTOWN BRIDGEPORT]. You know, I personally think they look like [OLIVIA CULPO], but that’s crazy, right?

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Triggers in Bio: N/A

The small town of Bridgeport, Maine had been the home of Isla Leonora Ricci since birth. Her parents were locals, owning one of the local grocery stores in the Downtown Bridgeport district, where Isla early on started helping out packing groceries to help out. If she was not at the grocery store with her family or at school, she could usually be spotted out and about with either her sibling or friends, chilling at the local beach or enjoying the small shopping options Bridgeport had to offer. Although, when she got older her priorities changed. In her high school years, she started to dream about something more than a small town life in a county she had never set foot out of and she started to look into colleges out of state. All while the time she had usually spent at the store helping out her parents were replaced with beach or house parties and alcohol. However, she was determined to make a life for herself outside of Bridgeport, and ended up applying to basically all colleges the closes big city had to offer; New York. Here she eventually got accepted to St. John’s University for journalism.

Moving to a big city was a big step for a small town girl, but Isla dove in head first and managed to get settled pretty quickly. She met a group of people that she got on with really well and were a lot of fun. Eventually, the late nights she had spent in the library working on her degree, was replaced with late nights at the many night clubs the city of New York had to offer. She got invited to exclusive parties at VIP tables, got free drinks and enjoyed the company of the occasional celebrity. And as her focus changed, eventually did her life. Due to her newly adapted life style, Isla almost failed many of her courses and her grades slipped drastically. When time came, she just about managed to graduate with passing marks. Having already decided to stay back in the city,  hoping that her extroverted personality would weight out the results she had on paper. It proved  to be a much harder task than she had first anticipated seeing she rarely got any callbacks for any interviews, and if she did, it would only be for low paying jobs.

It was then her room mate at the time introduced her to escorting as a way to make ends meet in the mean time. However, the amount of money she ended up making from it allowed her to adapt a comfortable life as well as a luxury life style she had always desired. She began focusing more on her social media, mainly Instagram, and eventually gained a lot of followers from it which again led to smaller sponsorships and such from brands sending her products to review or post about. In New York for a while there, Isla was thriving, and she couldn’t really imagine herself ever moving anywhere else. She ended up with a decent clientele when she was working as an escort, some of which grew particularly attached to her. It wasn’t until she experienced a very uncomfortable situation with one of her regular clients, she packed up her bags and moved back home to Bridgeport, Maine.

Here she managed to land an assistant job and with the money she had left over from New York and her escorting days, she moved in to a studio flat in the Downtown Bridgeport district. Due to the move, her following halted or even started to drop as Bridgeport wasn’t exactly giving people the New York imaginary life style she had been posting about for years. It became harder and harder for Isla to support her luxury life style, and in order to attempt sustaining her income, she created a secret only fans account where she mainly posts explicit faceless pictures.

Hello tag lurkers! Now would be a perfect time to come check us out. We just started our winter festivities which will be running into the new year! We’ve got some great wanted connections up and are always looking for more to spice this place up! Drop us any questions you might have in the inbox! Several members of our admin team will be around for the rest of the night.

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Oh, look! It’s [SOPHIE JOHNSON]! I heard they’re [33], a [FEMALE], use [SHE/HER] pronouns, have been in town for [33 YEARS] and are actually from [BRIDGEPORT]. They are currently working as a/an/the [MANAGER AT SOAP OPERA LAUNDROMAT] and living in [OLD LYMEMOUTH]. You know, I personally think they look like [DIANNA AGRON], but that’s crazy, right?

BIOGRAPHY

Triggers in Bio: Drug/Alcohol Use, Deadbeat Parents

If there was any family that shouldn’t be having kids, it would be the Johnson family but after discovering the financial assistance they could receive from having children Tiffany and Terry went on to have 4 of them. Growing up she saw her parents abuse the system meant to take care of families. Despite all the assistance the family received hardly any of it went toward the kids. Instead the people who were supposed to take care of her and her siblings traded this assistance for cash to use towards cigarettes, drugs and alcohol. Seeing that their parents weren’t going to step up and take care of them, that responsibility fell on Sophie’s shoulders. Someone needed to take care of her and her siblings after all. She did odd jobs during school to make sure they had some money. What she couldn’t get with the money she earned from working she didn’t see anything wrong with shoplifting it. She was just a young kid after all with too many responsibilities for someone her age.

On top of working as much as she could Sophie managed to get straight A’s in school. It wasn’t surprising when she was offered a scholarship to her dream school after graduating. It was a difficult choice, but she knew her siblings needed her. Instead of heading off to get an education she stayed in town and got a full-time job to help her family. Was it hard to watch her fellow classmates head off to college? Yes, but it was one of the many sacrifices she was willing to make for those she loved. And love them she did despite not finding out until she was an adult that they weren’t even her full siblings. It seems like her mother wasn’t that faithful and had an affair with her dad’s best friend. Sophie was the result of this. Since finding out she’s met her biological father a few times even going to synagogue and celebrating Hanukkah with him. It isn’t the closest of relationships, but it was nice to have a father figure in her life.

As time passed, she found herself moving into a place not too far from her parents so she could still be there for her siblings. Though she never got the college education she hoped she’d get, she did manage to work her way up at work until she became manager of the laundromat. As her siblings got older and they needed her less and less, she managed to gain more of a life outside of her family. Her dating life wasn’t the most active but that didn’t stop her from having a daughter a few years ago with an off again/on again boyfriend. Despite her siblings’ reinsurance that she’d never be like their parents now that she’s a mother it’s a fear that won’t go away. She knows they’re right but it’s still something that keeps her up at night. Is this the life she thought she’d end up with? No but she wouldn’t change it for the world!

Oh, look! It’s [Eleanora Beaufort]! I heard they’re [32], a [FEMALE], use [SHE/HER] pronouns, have been in town for [3 DAYS] and are actually from [Clermont, Quebec]. They are currently working as a [WRITER] and living in [Downtown Bridgeport]. You know, I personally think they look like [Jenna Coleman], but that’s crazy, right? 

BIOGRAPHY

Trigggers in Bio: heart attack

 Most young girls will, at one time in their life, experience the delicious draw of time-worn pages that tell tall tales of princesses and knights and dragons in castles. Eleanora Beaufort was not unique in the fact that these stories infatuated her mind with intricate fantasies only a child could dream, she was unique in the fact, however, that this imagination followed her from her childhood, into her teens, and never left her side as she aged into an adult.

 A coping mechanism some would call it, one of a daydreaming only child born to a working mother and an absent father. And it was a fair assessment. Eleanora’s active imagination didn’t pair well with her loneliness as a child. She retreated to books, alone at home and grew shyer with each passing year. She would later learn to tell her own stories, though struggled to base them on people she knew in real life. She kept everyone she knew at an arms distance, only ever truly content with her own company. She wore a smile as a mask, her lips almost always posed in a people-pleasing grin so as not to ruffle any feathers. Deep down, she yearned to live life bolder, able to speak as though she were one of the characters from the books she so cherished. She went to bed each night thinking she was still the lonelist person in the world, that not a single soul in the world knew hers.

 At the age of 30, Eleanora’s life cracked open. She had lived quietly, in the same town in which she grew up. A beautiful, lush, French-Canadian town, with only 4,000 people within its limits. But then one day, as these things do, her mother was on her way to work and simply clutched her heart, onlookers say, while stuck at a red light. Suddenly, Eleanora was totally and completely alone in the only home she'd ever known. No longer figuratively as she’d once laid in bed imagining, now literally. Her “friends” withdrew. In every booth at the local diner, Eleanora saw her mother’s smile. Behind every open letter box at the post office, she’d hear a familiar sigh. Around every aisle at the grocery store, a laugh. Her mother's ghost was everywhere. Eleanora had no choice but to leave Clermont, but where would she go?

 The idea to find her father came to her quickly, almost as if something had whispered it to her. It wasn’t easy to do but she found the site of his last job from 5 years ago: Bridgeport, ME. She moved with only a suitcase, and bought the nicest apartment she could afford with the money her mom had saved. As she lay in her new bed, in her new town, with only opportunity in front of her, she wondered if this was what it felt to finally live.

Oh, look! It’s [MATTHEW “MATT” PETRACCA]! I heard they’re [33], a [MALE], and use [HE/HIM] pronouns, have been in town for [ONE YEAR] and are actually from [FLORIDA]. They are currently working as a [PEDIATRICIAN] and living in [DOWNTOWN BRIDGEPORT]. You know I personally think they look like [GRANT GUSTIN], but that’s crazy, right?

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Triggers in Bio: Divorce, Cancer

Matt grew up in Florida with his younger sister. His mom was a dental hygienist and his father worked a standard office job. He has a pretty standard childhood. He was close with his sister, who he was always over protective of. His mom was a dental hygienist and his father worked a boring office job and they fought constantly, but didn’t get a divorce until their kids were grown and out of college.

Matt was a smart kid, too smart for his own good. From a young age, he was bored and started acting out in class just to entertain himself. He was constantly getting in trouble in elementary school for trying to crack jokes and disrupting the class. He was labeled a problem child until the third grade when a teacher even considered that he wasn’t a dumb kid, he was just bored and couldn’t sit still. He ended up getting tested and being diagnosed with ADHD. After that, he was still the class clown, but at least he was able to sit still.

He excelled in high school, when he was finally able to take classes that challenged him enough to keep his brain occupied. And it was in his sophomore year honors english class that he met his first girlfriend. Despite Matt being the class clown that was friends with everyone, he was still awkward as hell when it came to girls. He asked her to go to the homecoming game with him, which was awkward and uncomfortable, considering neither of them knew anything about football, nor did they care about it. Thankfully, neither of them knew how to admit they didn’t want a second date, so they went on another one. This time it was to a bookstore, a place they were both comfortable in. What was only supposed to be an hour, turned into hours of them browsing the aisles of the bookstore, laughing and talking.

When it was time to go to college, Matt got into the University of Pennsylvania, with the plan to go premed. His girlfriend went to school in New York, and despite the fact that most high school couples didn’t make it past Thanksgiving break, the pair managed to make it work. It wasn’t uncommon for them to find the cheapest bus they could and see each other every few weekends, even if they spent the majority of the weekend studying together.

In college, Matt was a social butterfly, joining clubs and going out on weekends. He made friends everywhere he went, something that is still true today.

After graduating with honors, Matt took a year off to apply to medical school, and to focus on getting married to his high school sweetheart. They had a small wedding, promising each other they would have a bigger wedding to renew their vows once they both finished their schooling and had some money. Unfortunately their marriage didn’t last. Matt went to medical school in Massachusetts, and his wife wanted to stay in New York for grad school. They weren’t in a place where they could put their relationship first, unfortunately. And despite how much they loved each other, it wasn’t enough and they filed for divorce before their first anniversary.

Heartbroken from his divorce, he made his way through his first year of medical school. He was experiencing health issues, but he assumed it was stress from school and divorce, and told himself it would all clear up once his break rolled around. Unfortunately it didn’t and his sister forced him to go to a doctor to get checked out. After a whole slew of tests, he was diagnosed with lymphoma. As a result, he took a year off of medical school to undergo treatment and recover. Thankfully, he has been in remission ever since.

Once he was in remission, he was able to go back to medical school and graduate. He was matched to a residency program that brought him to Bridgeport, ME at Bridgeport Memorial in pediatrics.

Matt has found his home in Bridgeport and he hopes to stay once his residency is complete. Thanks to his outgoing and friendly personality, he was able to make tons of friends, even though his job doesn’t always allow him to see them. And although he isn’t always the most present friend, he is the most loyal. He will drop everything for those he cares about, and do anything for them. And he’s sorry he didn’t respond to your text three days ago, he wasn’t ignoring you, he just forgot. When he has free time he is usually exploring the city, making conversation with anyone who is willing, and befriending the few people in town he hasn’t already.

Oh, look! It’s [MILA MINKOVA]! I heard they’re [37], a [FEMALE], use [SHE/HER] pronouns, have been in town for [18 MONTHS] and are actually from [SOFIA, BULGARIA]. They are currently working as a/an/the [PROPERTY DEVELOPER] and living in [LIBERTY HILLS]. You know, I personally think they look like [JESSICA LOWNDES], but that’s crazy, right? 

BIOGRAPHY

Triggers in Bio: death, teen pregnancy, military (mention), murder, organized crime (mentioned in past).

Ludmila  Kseniya Konstantinova Pavlova  Mikova knew something was different about her family. Travel was prevalent, moving from city to city, traveling wherever her family needed for her father to set up another chain in his luxury hotels. As she found out in later years, this was a front for his illicit dealings and wayward ways.  In her early teens, she’d discovered the real truth behind her family and their businesses, but it didn’t change her perspective on life much. Why would it? This was all she knew, and at the end of the day, her family was just like any other!— although all that hand-to-hand combat and other martial arts training during her childhood now made more sense, while she was still a small woman, Mila could protect herself to some degree if needed.

Her life had been set up for her in Trousdale, California, this becoming a base of sorts for the Pavlov family, and the traveling with her father lessened as she aged, however, they had family homes all over the world and would holiday as often as they could, so Mila never really felt as if LA was her home. She was 16 when she fell pregnant.  Mila’s parents weren’t the most supportive of her relationship or the fact that their daughter was pregnant at such a young age. They didn’t have much to do with her during the pregnancy, ultimately asking her to leave the family home. When her son was born and his father seemingly took off, Mila turned to her brother, who took her in for a little while until she was able to get things sorted.

After her mother changed her tune and begged Mila to return home, she did, only to be met with an ultimatum. She agreed to her mother’s terms of getting ‘help’ by giving her mother temporary custody so that Mila could attend school and finish getting her GED. While it seemed like a good enough plan at the time, Mila’s mother enrolled her in a boarding school and let Mila have very limited contact with her own child until she finished her studies.  Mila fell into a depression, feeling as though she were cut off from the world, her family (aside from her brother), and her son. she fell back into old habits, began seeing her son’s father again on the weekends, and tried to get some semblance of her own life back.

When school was over, she moved back home, but her mother wasn’t happy with how she’d spent her time and refused to give her back custody of her child, even though it had been a little over a year. It was around this point that Mila decided to take control and (with the help of her brother) managed to get a handle on her mother and gain custody of her son again.

Mila got her life on track and went to night classes at college so that she could work or spend time with her son during the day.  She managed to walk away from the experience with several qualifications in business, real estate, and property development.

While she was single for most of her son’s young life, Mila found herself reconnecting with her son’s father time and time again, regardless of how well the man had his life sorted. The pair ended up getting married when Mila was still fairly young and starting her career, but while it was nice to be a family, Mila soon discovered that he wasn’t the man for her and ended up ultimately showing his true colours. her divorce was finalised around the time Mila got into working for the family business, developing five-star hotels and luxury resorts around the world.

She can’t exactly remember how she met jack, it was possible through a friend, but all she remembers was how utterly smitten she was with him from the very beginning. jack was a navy seal, a man who quite literally put his life on the line for his country time after time and continued down that road. Mila was well and truly in love and the moment he asked her to marry him was quite honestly, one of the happiest days of her life. eighteen months later and Freya was born, without her father in the country and sadly, without ever meeting her father. while Mila doesn’t know exactly what happened to jack on tour, she knew the man, while only shortly in her life, had come into her life to give her Freya.

Unfortunately for Mila, her father was killed a year later, sending her brother to fill their father’s shoes within the family. With her youngest now nine, Mila has spent the time buying property and throwing herself into life and work, while not dealing with any grief to come to her over those three years.

To move her daughter closer to her paternal grandparents, Mila decided to move to Bridgeport. She’s been in town for six months now, her family with her, though her son now does his own thing. she’s scouting a new area for a resort or hotel to expand the family chain and she’s hoping one pops up soon. It’s not Bulgaria, it’s definitely not LA, but it’s home, at least for now.

Oh, look! It’s [ANNISTYN ‘ANNI’ GATES]! I heard they’re [36], a [CIS-FEMALE], use [SHE/HER] pronouns, have been in town for [9 Years] and are actually from [Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania]. They are currently working as a [OB/GYN] and living in [OLD LYMEMOUTH]. You know, I personally think they look like [MANDY MOORE], but that’s crazy, right? 

BIOGRAPHY

Triggers in Bio: birth tw, divorce tw, alcohol tw, under aged drinking tw 

From the day that Annistyn ‘Anni’ Lowen was born to stand out. The youngest of three and the only girl, her parents knew from the start that she was going to be their wild child, and she didn’t disappoint. Some people joke that Anni never stopped being the center of attention the second that the air was filled with her screams at birth.

Being the only girl in her family, it wasn’t out of the ordinary she was favored. She was the first of her siblings to get food - that was a perk of being the baby and the most likely to cause a scene of the group - the first to get presents, and the first pick when it came to her parents and grandparents, but of course Anni didn’t mind. She loved attention, and she’d take it however she could get it.

While being the favorite did take up the majority of Anni’s personality, it wasn’t the only thing about her that was well known. She was a good student - often times making straight A’s in subjects her older brothers had failed - made friends with someone new every day, but was also a great singer, something that the Lowen family had found out on accident when Anni would sing in the bathtub every night before bed.

This continued long into adulthood, and at the age of 18 Anni moved to Chicago, accepting a scholarship to attend a university there and determined to move away from home. While most of her time was spent in college classes and adjusting to life outside of her hometown, Anni landed a job as a lounge singer, and knew that’s when her life would change forever.

Ever since she could remember, Anni had always been attracted to women, and while she had never kept it a secret from her family, she’d never really made it a well known fact; but when she met Lauren at the ripe age of 19, everything in Anni’s world changed. The two met one night in the lounge Anni performed in, and while Anni quite enjoyed playing hard to get, it wasn’t long before it was obvious that Lauren was coming just to see Anni, and before they knew it Anni was enjoying drinks with the other, one night of romance turned into the two sharing feelings - though Anni was certain that all she felt for the other was lust; there was no way this was love - and before Anni could say no they were on a plane headed to Vegas, exchanging wedding vows. Anni barely remembered it - fake ID’s had been her friend as she’d definitely used it to her advantage in this case - and only realized what had happened when she awoke the next morning in her wife’s bed and a ring on her finger.

Anni’s twenty second birthday came and went, and despite how much Lauren wanted to make it work, there just wasn’t any changing how Anni felt. She didn’t love her - never had - and just a week after she was graduating college, the couple was divorced and Anni was accepting a position at a medical school in Pennsylvania, moving back home and closer to her family. There, she got her medical license, obstetrics and gynecology, her practice of focus.

When she was accepted an intern position at a hospital in Bridgeport, the woman moved into town, finding herself getting settled in a place that she’d grown to love just in research, the girl began interning at the hospital, her free time and days off at a lounge just outside of town in hopes to get some extra cash until she had a steady flow of income. That’s where she met Sylvie; but what she didn’t know at the time was that her life would change forever. Anni found herself craving the other’s attention - despite seeing how things had gone the last time she’d been this into someone - she craved her. She wanted to know every part of her, but for the first time in Anni’s life, the other made her nervous. So, with several months of playing hard to get; Anni got the courage to ask her out, and the two have been inseparable ever since.

Eighteen months of dating and Anni knew this was what she wanted; so after planning an unforgettable night, the two got engaged and planning a wedding, their closest friends and family invited as they became united.  Anni and Sylvie have now been married for six years and have three beautiful children; Rowan, Hallie, and June. They’re just as in love today as they were six years ago; and Anni couldn’t truly be happier.