Autobiography

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M's story

21 Apr 2023 6 minute read 0 comments Diomedes

  ‘M’ met a sadder fate while I was in Europe. When I first met him he was single, happy but poor, ‘C’s only friend, glad to meet me and eager to help in every way when we went into business, talkative and overflowing in enthusiasm when some money s...

Travels

20 Apr 2023 5 minute read 0 comments Diomedes

  Our modest rental in Santa Cruz and Sanita pregnant In late April of 1986, Jim H. and Sanita and I took the ten-day trip to Texas to meet Sanita’s family. First her mother and sister Charmaine, her nice husband Tom and their two daughters aged one...

Fresh Air

19 Apr 2023 7 minute read 0 comments Diomedes

  At the beach, Point Reyes, near Fairfax with Ross and Norma and Amaris, Sanita taking the picture. I was now entering a much saner and happier period in my life, in a beautiful and peaceful place, in love with Sanita, half our time taking trips to...

Marin

18 Apr 2023 4 minute read 0 comments Diomedes

    Norma It was on the last day of March that I picked Sanita up at the airport, mid-morning. It was a beautiful Spring day. We were in the best of moods seeing each other again and we were in my sports car. My original plan was to drive her back t...

Steve and Consuelo

18 Apr 2023 6 minute read 0 comments Diomedes

  Consuelo four years later, living in Oregon, but not with Steve. “Monday afternoon Marge comes by and gives me a haircut and another party starts with her and her friend Andy joining us. Then dinner at Marge’s with Mart. and Andy, then I to B’s th...

Final Fling

17 Apr 2023 6 minute read 0 comments Diomedes

  I’ve been reading my long and detailed journal for this period (the month of March 1986) with some pain and finally relief. It fills almost a hundred pages and describes in detail the self-inflicted crisis I put myself through at this time. It was...

Dreams about women

17 Apr 2023 4 minute read 0 comments Diomedes

  Jane Welsh Carlyle These dreams of finding an intelligent and pretty soulmate surfaced now because Sanita had given a big boost to my self-esteem, my being able to gain the affection of a beautiful member of the opposite sex. Before her I had no s...

End of an Era

16 Apr 2023 4 minute read 0 comments Diomedes

      The last of my Bohemian days. Though we both had fun on this visit and Sanita was now looking forward to coming back at the end of March and moving in with me, I found this strange entry, the day I took her to the airport, still ambivalent abo...

Rendezvous

16 Apr 2023 5 minute read 0 comments Diomedes

  Datsun 240Z Sanita first arrived on January 30th. It was nighttime. I picked her up in S.F. and we drove straight to my apartment in Piedmont. In the next few days, she met many of my friends, along with a whirlwind of lines and partying, especial...

Her Past

15 Apr 2023 3 minute read 0 comments Diomedes

  Sanita in Mexico teaching a young girl how to smoke? She was a heavy smoker all her years with me. A week later, as we agreed, I drove her across that bridge to the airport, (Bruno coming along for the ride). She was to spend the month of March wi...