Mrs. Bluemarine

Mrs. Bluemarine is a slender grown woman who wears her hair gathered into several buns arranged on either side of her head.

Worn down and dissatisfied with where her life had gone, she had pinned her hopes for a brighter future on the baby she bore. Losing him drove her to a rash act, and she took a stranger's child in his place. Even so, she carried real guilt over the family she had wronged, later assuring Enrico Pucci that she had done her honest best to give the boy a loving home.

Her marriage in 1972 did little to lift a life already marked by hardship. That June her son Wes was born, but the infant she saw as her one hope died within days. Refusing to accept the loss, she slipped into a clinic room while the staff were occupied and traded her dead child for one of the Pucci family's twin boys, then raised him as Wes Bluemarine.

Sixteen years on, in 1988, a terminal illness pushed her to unburden herself to her parish priest, not realizing he was Enrico Pucci, the elder twin of the very baby she had taken. Once Pucci worked out that Wes was his lost brother and learned the young man had begun seeing their sister Perla, he engaged a detective agency to break the couple apart. The investigator discovered that her husband had been African American, assumed the son was of mixed race, and turned the Ku Klux Klan on the household, having Wes lynched and the home set ablaze with Mrs. Bluemarine still trapped inside.