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Aside from their letters to each other, they only get to be together for two weeks every June on their family vacations. As they become adults, they continue the tradition on their own, stealing away from their lives and their husbands in their respective cities in Scotland and Turkey to the only place where they can be their lesbian selves; a hotel room in the French Riviera.
One year, after WWII has begun, Lori doesn’t show up. Barbara goes back to Glasgow crushed, confused, and worried. Barbara goes back to Nice the next year, and the next, but Lori never comes. Barbara even tries looking for Lori in Istanbul, only to find out what she already knew – that Lori has gone missing without a trace.
Barbara moves on in her life, but not in her heart. 80 years pass, and every year, Barbara returns to Nice. She dedicates her life to staying alive and making the world a better place in case Lori returns. She becomes a tycoon, a billionaire, a gay rights advocate. She advances research in anti-aging technology and applies this research to herself. She lives well into her hundreds.
Finally, exhausted and feeling she’s done everything she can, Barbara moves into the hotel room in Nice to live out her final days...and this is when Lori reappears. She looks the same as she did in 1938, the last time they saw each other.
Lori explains that she was kidnapped by aliens and time on earth went by faster for everyone than it did for her while she was on the alien planet (which was through a wormhole a thousand light-years away - A Thousand Junes Away, get it?). They spend one last night together, and old Barbara dies in young Lori’s arms.
(Note: This one is a fan fiction about Barbara Corcoran and Lori Greiner from ABC’s “Shark Tank” and is a prequel to "Petticoat 9".)