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Who knows when the Exchange will go back up, right? And I'm sure you'd like to see wedding pictures as much as I'd like to show them.

The rebuild, the switch of neighborhoods, now the Exchange, the first chapter in LJ format--it's all part of a series of SNAFUs, and not even the worst of them. And that is why this chapter of Squeaky Clean is called:

Squeaky Clean Legacy, 16.1: Enormous Changes at the Last Minute

If you remember, Flavius was delegated to drive us from the old Legacy neighborhood to the new one.
At last we arrived in Pleasantview.

And it immediately became apparent that something was very, very wrong.

SimMe: Oh, NO.

Cassius: You think this is bad? Going through high school all over again. THAT is BAD.

De: Oh, Cassius? Where are you?

De: That’s my little Marcus! Oo, he gets to be my little baby again! So cute!

Wait till De finds out she’s got an underage husband who’s too young to marry her yet. I bet she doesn’t think THAT’s so cute.

Flavius: Your mother is going to kill me.

Flavius: Where’s Derek the Paperboy?

Papergirl: My name’s Desiree. Desiree Viljakavar. And I have no clue what you’re talking about.

Flavius: And I suppose you’re going to tell me you’re Josephine Carr.

Josephine: How did you guess?

De: Lenore Depiesse? You’re the gardener? Where’s Leo?

Lenore: Who’s Leo?

De: Which must make you. . .

Maid: Renata Harris.

Renata: You must be new! I’d like you to meet my friend, Parvati Mellon.

De: Uh, hi. I’m Fireflower Marius and speaking as a devoted fanfiction reader, this is weird, even for me.

De: I mean, no offense, but I was expecting Remington Harris and Pao Mellon.

Parvati: You were expecting us to be boys?

Renata: I could never see myself as a boy. Tee hee!

Flavius: Greetings, Miss Dicreasy. We who are about to die salute you.

Orikes: Don’t worry, Flavius. I don’t think the Prof is actually going to kill you. Everything’s going to be all right.

Of course, Orikes is mellow, even for a Sim, and weirder things happen in the Pseudo Legacy all the time.

Obviously, she’s settled in to her new Roman villa just fine.

SimMe: This certainly looks like Woodland Park, but it can’t be Pleasantview. Everyone who is supposed to be a girl is a boy, and everyone who is supposed to be a boy is a girl. Cassius is a teenager, Marcus is a toddler. You were driving. What the heck happened?

Flavius: I don’t know. I followed the directions I got off the web. . .

SimMe: That's part of your problem, right there.

Flavius: . . . and when I drove in, I could see it in the rear view mirror: Weivtnasaelp.

SimMe: I cannot believe it. How could this have happened?

Flavius: Maybe it was the flux capacitor?

SimMe: The mini-van doesn’t HAVE a flux capacitor.

SimMe: How could you have. . . ?

Flavius: Golden Apples.

SimMe: . . .what?

Flavius: The Golden Apples of the Hesperides. It was one of the labors I couldn’t do. But now you have Seasons installed, and I could go and get you the Golden Apples of the Hesperides, if it would make you happy.

Sim Me: Well, I, um. . .

SimMe: Never mind, Flavius. I know you were doing your best. No neighborhood rebuild is perfect.

Still, Renata Harris. Working as the maid at the new Legacy house, just to make things a little more confusing. But while we’re here, let’s run down the generations who journeyed here only to make a quick trip to the attractive little cemetary out back.

This anxious-looking young lady is Family Sim Rosie Goodytwoshoes, the foundress of the Squeaky Clean Legacy. I’m sure Lytton, our family historian, would have loved to find out why Rosie demanded Strict Family Values, girls inheriting, and such a devotion to pink. Unluckily, Rosie was as uncommunicative as ever. She outdid herself, however, with her LTW. Last time, it was Six Married Children. This time, it was Raise 20 Puppies and Kittens. Atta girl.

Rosie married Shane Hiatt, who cursed us with a Gold Toymaking badge. They left our pink, cat-loving legacy to. . .

Their Knowledge Sim daughter, Daisie Mae, who was the first Goodytwoshoes girl to earn a Gold Flowermaking badge.

Daisie Mae married the real Remington Harris. Accept no substitutes!

Their perky Popularity Sim daughter Sunny took over as Generation Three heiress.

Sunny was the first heiress to marry a Legacy Sim from another Legacy. Here is Publius Scipio from Blite27’s/

legionary27 's Ten Caesars, posing and looking Imperial, which fits because he built up Five Top Businesses.

Matters were livened up considerably by Generation Three spare Delightful, who never met a cute chick she didn’t like.

Sunny and Publius left the Legacy to their snobby older daughter Aurora, who thought of herself as a ballet princess.

Her husband Spencer Fitzhugh, of Marina/Smoothiequeen87/

smoothiesims Fitzhugh Legacy, did nothing to discourage this but added a great deal of eye candy.

Their daughter Ruby inherited as Generation Five heiress. Here she is, looking both bookish and cheerful, as was her wont.

She managed to be cheerful despite having married the psychotic cheesehead Gaius Caesar, also of Ten Caesars. As you can see, becoming a Goodytwoshoes domesticated Gaius somewhat.

Ruby was rewarded with a second marriage late in life to her nautically-inclined Servo, Killick, who still helps to run the Legacy House and grounds and who salts up the conversation.

Ruby and Gaius had four children, but only one of them was a daughter. Here is Generation Six heiress Emerald, looking sentimental. Refreshingly, I shall refrain from mentioning any of her spotlight-grabbing brothers.

And here is her husband Nelson Penguino, of the Penguino Legacy, looking scrumptious. Emerald was lucky to have married him, as she could be a bit naïve and a bit of a pushover at times.

Her daughter Sophia, Generation Seven heiress, is not remotely a pushover. (Yes, those are some of

simgaroop 's CC paintings behind her.)

Nor is her husband, Jack Buccaneer, of Purple Bunny’s Piratical Legacy.

De Beers: Here are the portraits, Sophia. I hope they’re all you wanted.

Sophia: Thanks, Great Uncle De Beers.

Because if you’re going to do a rebuild, at least you can have decent portraits, right?

Dinadan Locks, of Rubyblue’s/Goldilocks and the Nine Heirs, stopped by as soon as he heard the family had moved in. He had been one of three potential suitors for Penelope’s hand in marriage and was eager to be reunited with her.

Dinadan: Hi, Mrs. Goodytwoshoes. Is Penelope in?

Sophia: Yes and no, Dinadan.