Tracy is the eternally pure pre-menstrual nymph who represents the time before the so called Fall from the Garden of Eden. A good way to think of it is this: Tracy is the Virgin, Laurie is the Whore and Shirley is the Virgin Whore. Tracy will be a virgin eternally. While Suzanne Crough, the mortal incarnation of Tracy, may have entered the world of fornication, every time you watch a rerun of The Partridge Family and you see Tracy exclaim that she doesn't understand some reference that her older brothers and sisters are making, you can be sure that you are looking at the smiling face of a Virgin. Even when Crough is no longer with us, you can still watch the Eternal Virgin on your T.V. This is what we mean, that these people are gods, they are immortal. Well aren't all tv characters immortal you ask? Well yes and no. While most characters on television may last until the end of time, only the Partridges have been around since the beginning of time and since time is in reality circular, when the beginning of Time rolls around again, the only television characters to survive will be the Partridges. Now that's immortality!