contribution #171

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{
  "id": "laforge_theosine",
  "name": "Madame Théosine Laforge",
  "born": 1875,
  "died": "—",
  "class": "professional (unusual)",
  "background": "French-Creole (New Orleans)",
  "neighborhood": "The Heights (in residence at the Orpheus Society, funded by Augusta Thorpe)",
  "occupation": "medium, lecturer, author",
  "notes": "Arrived in Port Hume 1913 from New Orleans via Chicago. Has a following among wealthy widows (Evangeline Hume, Augusta Thorpe, Ottilie Thorpe). Denounced in print by Prof. Ingersoll in 1914 as a fraud. What she actually is — con artist, sincere seeker, something else — is ambiguous in canon. (Leans con, with complications.)\n",
  "relationships": [
    {
      "to": "thorpe_augusta",
      "type": "patron"
    },
    {
      "to": "hume_evangeline",
      "type": "friend"
    },
    {
      "to": "thorpe_ottilie",
      "type": "patron"
    },
    {
      "to": "ingersoll_martin",
      "type": "enemy"
    }
  ]
}