Sleeping Beauty Heart

Sarah in Hebrew means “princess” or “queen”. If Simon Bolivar had married Jeannette Hart, one of the most beautiful women in America, then she would have been the Queen of the Americas. Instead, her remains lie forgotten and disgraced in a grave that is shrouded in mystery. I suspect, because Jeannette converted to Catholicism, her Puritancial kindred (who were famous Reverends) would not let her be buried anywhere near her Protestant cousins whose bones were everywhere.

It is alleged Jeannette bought her own plot to bury her negro slave, Sarah, next to her, but, I suspect this is her stillborn child who may have been aborted when this American Princess beheld the love of her life in a victory parade with his mistress. Bolivar tried to get the remains of this child buried in his homeland, believing it was his child. Simon was a Liberator. I am reminded of the…