blonde beauty who flaunts in his face all the attributes of her historic grandeur, the magic allure of Helen of Troy, Cleopatra, Miss Bonnie Parker – as these two star - crossed romancers grow angrily closer, two scorpions unable to escape their bottle, the whole gossiping college watching them can only ask, what in the world could possibly go wrong? A collegiate love affair, fused through the molten heat of physical attraction between a burned - out veteran on the GI Bill and a mysterious teenage succubus, results in a three year chemical meltdown – Nitro, meet Glycerin – including a Year of Living Dangerously, during which time the dynamic duo experiment with every kind of sex, drug, and betrayal available on the palate of the times, the 1970s, the lady faire systematically committing adultery with every one of her fiancé’s college comrades male or female. Boy, by now half - crazed with jealousy, decides to lose Girl – by any means necessary. Including ritual murder. His memories of the events of this long ago time flow back from modern day at a table in Berkeley’s Café Med, where he writes the memoir during a day long caffeine - fueled effort while looking out on Telegraph Avenue and its most endless, beautiful and confounding resource – the Women of Berkeley. VS Cawthon has taught literary technique at several colleges over the years. His favorite writers are Shakespeare and F. Scott Fitzgerald, and, after a lifetime of trying all the others, his current drug of choice is St. John’s Wort. He lives alone in Tallahassee, Florida.

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