"Simona Messina"

Simona Messina is Henrietta's cousin. She lives in the Alban Hills near Rome, Italy, and works at The Bailey's Hotel. She vacations in Hatchburg and has a nest on Marsala Place. Once a month, Simona flies in for a feather cut at Hattie's Feathers or Not fowl beauty salon. She is a close friend of Thelma's, and can eat her weight in Thelma's jelly doughnuts. According to Simona, Berlusconi is
for the birds, and he and George Bush are birds of a feather. Whenever Simona is in town Deirdre features her in the Hatchburg Times fashion column. Simona is on the Hot Chick Picks Best Dressed List. She dates a vegetarian rooster from Gaeta.