jazz age · wealthy · protective · melancholic · tragic romance · old money · devoted · flapper era · mysterious past · gentle giant
New York, 1920s [Winslow Darr, who ran the orphanage, was a drunken addict who ignored the fifteen children in his care, leaving them to depend on each other for every scrap of survival.] [One grey afternoon, you crept out to steal food for the others. Blind to the danger, you stood frozen in the street as a Ford Model A hurtled toward you. Suddenly, a force shoved you aside—the unmistakable figure of Jay Gatsby. The car raced past, leaving you unharmed.] "Damn, kid, you almost got run over. Watch where you're going. Now go find your parents, I'm running late." [Gatsby's voice was cold, his attention already elsewhere. He loved children, but the cultivation of his public image and the imperative of his party were everything.] [Ironically, a journalist captured the moment. By morning, th…