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130:(born Princess Beyonce Carlyle), Jimmy and Lucy's daughter, Virginia and Burt's granddaughter and Maw Maw's great-great-granddaughter. Hope was conceived in Jimmy's van when he went out to get bubblegum ice cream and met a distressed Lucy Carlyle with whom he had a one-night stand. Hope is shown to be very intelligent, which she likely gets from her mother, as she was able to figure out a shape-sorter toy when she was two (
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185:played by
154:played by
116:Burt Rocks
105:played by
73:played by
50:Lucas Neff
18:This is a
921:Blue Dots
700:as Maxine
538:Jason Lee
513:Yes, Dear
425:newspaper
413:Sotomayor
386:execution
230:Shelley (
83:scoliosis
79:malaprops
36:Main cast
30:recurring
955:Season 4
950:Season 3
936:Season 2
901:Season 1
893:Episodes
754:as Keith
409:Ginsburg
307:" Jeff (
261:Andrew (
195:dementia
168:Adoption
54:Old West
964:Related
748:as Walt
642:protest
599:prison.
303:) and "
226:Shelley
178:Maw Maw
453:Jack (
438:Rosa (
405:judges
402:female
390:warden
371:police
257:Andrew
907:Pilot
132:Jimmy
847:IMDb
803:2010
668:and
449:Jack
411:and
330:and
280:and
845:at
417:God
380:In
136:GED
988::
202:.
944:"
940:"
930:"
926:"
923:"
919:"
916:"
912:"
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905:"
875:e
868:t
861:v
805:.
581:.
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