Maybe it was in part the suspicions of their family, or the barriers of class, but as time passed, the relationship between Parker and Hulme became more all encompassing, and as it did, it depended more on fantasy. Perhaps, given the obstacles they faced, the only place where the two truly felt free was in their fantasy Fourth World, and Borovnia, their magical kingdom, and in the phantom Hollywood they had created and where they planned to move together to be with their saints, Mason, Lanza, Welles and the others.
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In their fantasy world, they were not only privy to the mysteries of the Fourth World; they were also precious, artistic souls. They wrote constantly, novels, stories filled with lust and blood, which they were certain, would be their ticket to Hollywood. In their fevered imaginations, the gates to Hollywood fame and fortune were just waiting to be thrown open to them. Soon, they imagined, James Mason and the cohort of saints they had created would embrace them. They even suggested doing away with any stray starlet wives who might interfere with their planned communion with the suave, British actor.
By the middle of 1953, the girls' relationship had reached its apex. The way prosecutors would later describe it, the depth of their devotion to one another, and the strength of their shared fantasies became most readily apparent when Juliet again fell ill, this time with tuberculosis.
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