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They turned fourteen in early June of 2020, and my original idea was that I would write a story, or chapter, or whatever which would feature the final appearance of Fred and Frida.
F&F were a fourteen year old couple who I would switch to when I wanted something to happen which I couldn't depict P&P doing, because of age. So, when Paula, age eleven, got the idea of dancing in a certain way for some boys from school, Frida actually did it, and you got to read about it. When P&P, barely nine years old, spent some very special time under a banyan tree, I couldn't give you any details, but it just so happens that F&F lost their virginities under that exact same tree and, since they were fourteen years old, I could give you all the details.
But when P&P themselves turned fourteen, well I didn't need to do that anymore, so I was going to write something where we would see F&F for the last time. They were going to be eighteen (four years older than my kids), and they were going to be getting married. They also won a radio contest, so P&P were going to sing at their wedding. Then, all four of them were going to have sex together.
But you know what happened in 2020: COVID-19. They weren't going to be going on tour, or singing at any weddings, or having sex with and breathing all over total strangers.
So instead I wrote about gifts of steel and wood. Hey, I like it, and the sex is still there, just the two of them. Fred and Frida? IDK, maybe they do show up at some point, maybe not.
On Friday, August 18, 2023, Ray Hildebrand, who wrote the 1963 hit song "Hey Paula," died. He was 82 years old. He not only wrote the song after which I named the two lovers in my "Paul & Paula 21" stories, but he sang it with Jill Jackson.
I am grateful to him for this song I have enjoyed for decades, and for naming my kids. Condolences to family, friends, and fans.
Something new about the kids, though it's about something that happened in 2015.
I've got two or three, possibly four more for that year to finish, and then I'll bundle it up into one "book" with multiple chapters. "Sex Wasn't Supposed to Be Like This" wasn't going to be any fun to write, and it would violate Rule 7, so I don't need to write it. "How to Be a Big Man" probably wouldn't violate any rules, but if I don't have to write details about Paula being molested, I don't have to write details about Paul being beaten, and I'd just as soon not. So there.
So, two chapters I don't need to worry about finishing. There's still the one about the parents being arrested and the kids put into the system, and the one about the court order which leads to the need for "Arranging Substitutes" and "Date With Jenny" and such.
The two maybes are one about the fear that CPS might separate them, foster them out to different families or such, but that's mentioned in others and maybe doesn't need a chapter of its own? And one about Christmas during the separation, and even Sally, Jenny, George, and Sam can only do so much to make the holiday less painful with neither parents nor lover around. Maybe don't need that one before I bundle them up.
The Paul & Paula 21 story listed as 25-Seattle, Opening Act ends with Ted Michaels asking his wards, “So kids, how’d you like to break the law?”
With an ending like that, there should be something about to happen, but you won't find it. There's nothing there until we're watching the kids arrange substitutes for when they're going to be apart due to a court order. But, but what about "break the law?" Did the court order have anything to do with the law-breaking?
No, it did not. Judge Lanchew knew nothing about that.
And really, I did start to write that story, and even wrote a couple of sentences on it today. The story takes place right after this Seattle concert and is called (or will be, if I ever finish it) 3,4 Methylenedioxymethamphetamine and will involve some effective buy technically illegal drug-assisted psychotherapy for the two kids. I don't know why I'm having trouble with it; I didn't have much trouble writing on the same subject for Tomboy.
A few people have asked why I don't take the various P&P21 stories and just make them chapters of a single story, and the reason is because there are unfinished "chapters" which would be missing. If'n I ever get them written for 2015 (which'n I might), I'll repost 2015 as its own "book," as it were.
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