For 2 girls, they remember 1968 quite differently than most of how their age group does. They do not remember it for the "Summer of Love", but for the "Winter of the Drive-In".
A Story in the The Criminalization of John and Jane Smith Universe
John believed in the American way: truth, honor, and a Constitutional system of justice. Then one hot day a demented biker tried to force him off the freeway and John was given a choice by the system: plead guilty, or face prison.
Jamie, a fourteen-year-old waif just floating around Pleasant Grove, Missouri, in 1915, doing odd jobs here and there and entrancing men who were subject to being entranced by handsome, charismatic, and perfectly formed fourteen-year-old boys, is on the cusp of deciding what he wants sexually. The priest and the hotel owner surely want him. But it's a smooth-talking salesman and the gypsies who take a march on the issue.
It is 1959 and two lonely people are brought together under unforeseen circumstances. Although it is the end of the decade it becomes the beginning of their new lives.
Movie agent Brad Boynton has totally created leading man heartthrob Ron Fitzhugh into a major movie star. All Ron had to do was give Brad everything. Fourteen-year-old movie extra Jared is smitten with Fitzhugh on a movie set. Jared too wants to be made into a major movie star.
Madness, they say, is doing the same thing and expecting a different result. This is a brief account of an armed skirmish in the Battle of the Sexes. The characters first appeared in Genesis, chapters 2 and 3.
From high school virgin and despised by her parents and siblings to superstar MIT student and then beyond, this rollercoaster ride, told in the form of an autobiography, involves lots of sexual interludes and exploration along with interweaving real-world Boston-area events to pull the reader deep inside.