Lucy Hale

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I agree with Rogerm also. I have two takes on Booth using Lucy. One, of course, is the possibility of her being of some secondary use in planning against Lincoln. However, I also think that Lucy's social status could elevate him into the higher classes that he had a craving to be part of.

While I do not think that there was a rivalry between him and Edwin serious enough for him to seek fame through assassination, I do think that he likely wanted to move in the higher circles like what Edwin was doing mainly in the North. Lucy could be a ticket to that stratosphere -- one that neither his father or mother ever achieved.