During the parade she caught the eye of political boss Commodore Louis Kaestner, who ordered his right-hand man, Sheriff Nucky Thompson to bring Gillian to his house that evening for a sexual encounter. However, Gillian would never meet James again. That day, was the " Neptune's Bounty" parade and Gillian was set to appear as one of his 'consorts'. They wrote their names in a pillar and agreed to see each other again the next day, before James and his family left. It was under the Boardwalk, on April 30, 1897, where she was kissed for the first time by a boy, a kid from out of town named James Edison that had bought a cigarette from her. Gillian moved soon to Atlantic City and by age 12 she lived off the money she earned selling stolen cigars and cigarettes to the tourists on the Boardwalk. Gillian during May Day, 1897 (" Paris Green") She has bad memories of the place and doesn't remember her parents (" Havre de Grace"). Gillian was orphaned young and raised by the Children's Society Home in Trenton, New Jersey.
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