JJ Marra -no Billy Bigelow ( " Carousel " )

I  was glad to read that pretty ,young, blonde, blue eyed

    -just turned 18 -  Faith Marie Ouellette - is back  safe and sound

    from her mysterious " adventure " with the 56 year old  traveling

    carnival worker John " JJ " Marra. While Faith was reported " missing ",

    I had scary images out of a Ray Bradbury story in my head : " Dark Ferris ".

              Some friend of Faith thought " JJ " was  a little sinister

    looking with his toothless, middle aged smile . Another " Mack the Knife " ?

              In the Ray Bradbury nightmare carnival the villain becomes

    young again merely by riding backwards on  a strange ferris wheel.

                Thinks  " JJ "  : " Now I'll have my way with her ! "

            But the way the actual news story ended, I am thinking of

    a bizarre version of the Rodgers & Hammerstein musical " Carousel ".

            But  - nice guy that you still might be , you are no Billy

    Bigelow, Mr. JJ Marra ! .

              From the play : " The fust time he kissed me the whiff of

    his clo'es knocked me flat on the floor of the room. But now that I

    love him , my heart's in my nose, and fish is my fav'rit perfume "

                  At 18 LOVE can be blind. But I'm not suggesting at all

    what REALLY happened between Faith and " JJ " .

               " There is no place like home faith ". Welcome back to

    Kansas !