CHARACTER SKETCH

NAME LOLA HALE

NICKNAME Lee sometimes called her ‘blondie’. I’d never dare. He also called her ‘kitty’. (Hey she likes cats)

APPEARANCE Professional

HAIR –STYLE-COLOR-TYPE-TEXTURE Golden blonde with red highlights

EYES –GLASSES-CONTACTS- Blue, no glasses

WEIGHT unknown

COLORING Fair

HEIGHT abt 5’3”

BUILD Medium

FACIAL FEATURES –LIPS, EYEBROWS, LASHES, JAW LINE, NOSE

Arched eyebrows.

VOICE –ACCENT – WAY OF TALKING Some trace of New England, but you have to listen for it.

FAMILY Both parents alive, from Kansas. Has cats.

CONNECTION TO ME Former employee, communications specialist

BEST FRIENDS/ENEMIES Congenial. In addition, since Lee and she were a bit ‘friendly’, for a time I saw her as a potential in law if my paternal relationship with Lee been legal.

ETHNIC/CULTURAL BACKGROUND unknown, prob northern European

SCHOOLING Associate’s Degree in English/Communications

OCUPATIONS PRESENT-PREVIOUS Formerly Operator, Bell Telephone Company; US Congressional Communications Specialist. More recently NIMR Communications’ Specialist.

HOBBIES Lee, what else?

POLITICAL PREFERENCES Unknown.

LIKES Walking on the beach, building sand castles, cats.

DISLIKES Telemarketers (not personally, she knows they have to earn a living, just the idea of it. After all, how would you like to be interrupted when you’re busy with someone like Lee.)

MOVIES/BOOKS/PLAYS It’s a Wonderful Life, and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.

FOODS Chinese take out and her grandmother’s apple cake.

SPORTS Water aerobics and scuba diving, but I think those were just to see Lee in his spandex swim trunks.

FEARS/PHOBIAS That Lee wouldn’t come back alive from a mission. We all had that fear. And now, well, it wasn’t exactly a mission that took his life, but that fear was realized.

QUIRKS None that I’m aware of.

CHARACTER FLAWS Can’t say no to potato chips, especially the French Onion Dip flavor.

FAVORITE EXPRESSIONS/ TYPICAL GESTURES SMIRKED when she had a hard time not laughing. Esp. when Lee sang his little tune after Venice. Actually I didn’t think his rendering was all that bad, but I smirked too, trying not to laugh.

CHILDHOOD/TEEN MEMORY None

ROLE MODEL Good employee

TEN WORDS TO SUM UP WHAT I THINK OF THIS PERSON

Professional employee, sweet girl. (Any sweetheart of Lee’s was a sweetheart (figuratively) of mine.)

TEN WORDS HOW THIS PERSON AFFECTED MY LIFE

Did her job so I could do mine.

WHAT I’D SAY TO THIS PERSON IF WE MET TODAY

I’m still so sorry for your loss.

WHAT I WISH I HADN’T SAID /DONE TO THIS PERSON

When’s the wedding? (I didn’t realize at the time that they’d had a spat, and he’d never proposed.)