" There is always a part of us that longs for the things we couldn’t have as a child. We’ll always desperately want them. A lost parent, financial security, beautiful things, a sibling. Milicent grew up in the most extreme version of this. Sometimes, it’s as big and indefinable as love. Sometimes, it’s as opulent as your own Wonderland. "

― Mallory O'Meara , The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick