| From the very first moment we'd meet, Dan would | | | | drinking, she told Dan so, and Dan told me, and I told |
| give off a sudden and odd sense of a person | | | | Dan to tell her, "Mind her own business." Fine, she took |
| understanding my undertaking in life. But it came at the | | | | it lightly and somewhat avoided me when visiting Dan, |
| oddest time, under odd circumstances. I was living in | | | | and at work she smiled as usual. I think she was torn in |
| San Francisco, back in 1968, and Dan just started | | | | that she'd have liked to have had a closer relationship |
| working at Lilli Ann, where I was working, I had been | | | | with me, but it didn't turn out that way, surely drinking |
| there for four months, Lilli Ann was dress designing | | | | was part of the issue. |
| company. We kind of bumped into one another, and he | | | | As I implied, I came in drunk a lot, and fell to sleep a lot, |
| was looking for a place to live, he and his spunky | | | | or passed out a lot, and it was Colleen who was living |
| brother, half brother, a few years younger than us two, | | | | in one of the rooms near Dan, and she was drinking |
| at present they were being kicked out because of | | | | and laughing with Dan and his brother a lot, and one |
| their rent being raised, and unaffordable for them. | | | | evening, I came home, and heard them, they were |
| I was working out at the karate dojo in Castro, living on | | | | having a party in their room and she was flirting, trying |
| Dolores Street in an old mansion, a female Colonial, | | | | to kiss Dan, and yelled at her and Dan and the brother, |
| retired from the Army, rented the rooms out. She was | | | | less at the brother, and of course she scolded me for |
| tall, with short blond hair, medium size boned, and kind | | | | being jealous, and I told Dan, stay away, even if I didn't |
| of orderly. What you'd expect I suppose from such a | | | | care to date her anymore, and he said ok, with a |
| person. | | | | slanting eye, and she said no, with a grudge. She said, "I |
| On the other hand, Dan was about my height, five | | | | am not your property, I am free to date and do as I |
| food eight, perhaps Irish, like me, sandy brown hair, and | | | | please, I am not subject to you." |
| took a different style of karate up, but was interested | | | | It did come to pass, she left, and probably for the |
| in some of my moves. He was considered good in his | | | | wiser. But I thought a lot of Dan for doing what he did, |
| style, but I was considered better, if it came down to | | | | he avoided her, told her, and I heard him say it, "It's best |
| testing one another under fire. | | | | we keep our distance, I don't want to lose Dennis as a |
| Now I had been dating Colleen, she was ten-years my | | | | friend, he was my friend first." I guess he felt he owed |
| senior and she was looking for a place to live also. She | | | | it to me, I mean, I got him the apartment, and perhaps |
| had a white Cadillac car, and a good job. I'd often get a | | | | the girlfriend, at least the first date, and his brother got |
| ride to work from her, and she'd have me buy her | | | | to smoke his pot unworried about the law, in his |
| material, for making cloths, Lilli Ann was considered to | | | | apartment, life was good. Plus, he didn't really want an |
| have some of the best textiles in the world, Adolph | | | | affair with her that might leak back to his new |
| Schuman, often went to France, checked out the mills | | | | unofficial girlfriend. |
| to insure he got the best. In any case, it was a good | | | | As time moved on, Dan got more involved with his |
| arrangement, and we'd drink, got drunk and made love | | | | girlfriend, and I respected that, and we did less and less |
| together when we were both available. | | | | together, which was ok, but I seemed to have lost a |
| Well, she moved in, after Dan, but I met both of them | | | | good friend in the process, one I took time to cultivated |
| around the same time, Dan a month earlier. And we all | | | | a friendship with, and that hurt. But I would find out in |
| got along together. I suppose back then, it was all we | | | | life, there was much ahead of me, and perhaps there |
| could do to hold together, drink, and work together, and | | | | would not have been time to cultivate that friendship |
| flop out together. We were all becoming a group of | | | | beyond what we did. Consequently, we did in our short |
| sorts. Dan's brother was part of the group, but less a | | | | time all we really could do. When my mother visited |
| part. | | | | the city he even went to China Town with us, she liked |
| I drank quite a lot in those days, and Dan found a | | | | him as well as I, and that was not a surprise to me. |
| girlfriend at work, a Spanish gal and had me talk to her, | | | | I learned back then, I suppose, a good friend is worth |
| kind of fixing him up, I knew her better than he. And | | | | its weight in any kind of precious metal; they are far |
| thus, they started dating, and she became part of the | | | | and in-between, in one's life time. |
| group. She liked me, and was concerned about my | | | | |