[Birthdates: 6 Jan 1955 & 6 Jan 1956]
 

Prologue: Addressed to Grace.

Chapter 1: 1967 / him 12, her 11 -- [EARLY YEARS, part 1] General background; street fight to rescue her.

Chapter 2: 1968 / him 13, her 12 -- [EARLY YEARS, part 2] She has her first period.

Chapter 3: 1969 / him 14, her 13 -- [EARLY YEARS, part 3] First kiss & realization of deep emotional commitment.

Chapter 4: 1970 / him 15, her 14 -- [EARLY YEARS, part 4 / OPENING MOVES] First real sexual contact; mutual masturbation; oral sex.

Chapter 5: 1971 / him 16, her 15 -- [EARLY YEARS, part 5 / PATTY] Her bad date & my revenge; her afternoon with Patty.

Chapter 6: 1972 / him 17, her 16 -- [FIRST TIME / DRIVE-IN / SHOWERS] Our first fuck; sex shared with others; experimental water sports.

Chapter 7: 1973 / him 18, her 17 (my freshman year) -- [MARTA] Weekend with Marta, Gary, & Alice.

Chapter 8: 1974 / him 19, her 18 (my sophomore year, her freshman year) -- [NOT YET WRITTEN; to be called *FAMILY*] We set up housekeeping for ourselves.

Chapter 9: 1975 / him 20, her 19 (my junior year, her sophomore year) -- [NOT YET WRITTEN; to be called *TRANSITIONS*] Our parents are killed; we have only each other now.

Chapter 10: 1976 / him 21, her 20 (my senior year, her junior year) -- [NOT YET WRITTEN; to be called *CRISIS*] Alex's personal crisis: She meets a guy and falls in love; I decide to let her go if necessary, though the decision is very painful. She discovers she'd rather have me than him. I graduate and we decide I should do my M.A. the following year; perhaps my career is in teaching.

Chapter 11: 1977 / him 22, her 21 (my graduate work, her senior year) -- [CONNIE] First fateful meeting with Connie, out of town.

Chapter 12: 1978 / him 23, her 22 -- [EXTENDED FAMILY] We go out into the world, sort of, working in Berkeley; Connie makes it a permanent three-way arrangement.

Chapter 13: 1979 / him 24, her 23 -- [NOT YET WRITTEN; to be called *SPRING WEDDING*] Alex and Connie sit me down to discuss the family situation; Connie explains that she can't have children. They convince me that Connie and I should marry, for the record and to cover ourselves with the world. And Alex and I will have a child, to be explained publicly as an adopted niece; Connie will be the "second mother." Grace is conceived mid-April 1979.

Chapter 14: 1980 / him 25, her 24 -- [to be called *AND THEN WE WERE FOUR*] Grace is born, 10 Jan 1980.

 [. . . time passes . . .]

Chapter 15: 1991 / him 36, her 35, Grace 12 -- [NOT YET WRITTEN; {grace1}] Background of Grace's upbringing.

Chapter 16: 1992 / him 37, her 36, Grace 13 -- [NOT YET WRITTEN; {grace2}] Grace's first carefully considered sexual contact with us.

Chapter 17: 1993 / him 38, her 37, Grace 14 -- [NOT YET WRITTEN; to be called *CONSUMATION*] Grace's first sex with us; similarities and differences between that and my early experiences with Alex. Some sobering decisions.
 
 

That's it, folks. That's the plan. Anything listed as "NOT YET WRITTEN" means just that -- it exists only in outline form or rough first draft! So *please* don't email me to ask "where's the rest of the novel?" What you see posted on this page is what I've completed. Or, "when are you going to finish it?" This is *my* story and I'm writing it as I get it worked out. It won't be finished in this century -- maybe not in the next one, either -- but I'll post each section when I think it's ready to be taken out in public. Keep in mind that this particular piece of work is partly true and partly not; where the slightly-fictionalized fact tapers off and the pure fantasy-wish fulfillment (or whatever) takes over is up to you to determine, but I have my reasons for doing it this way.
 
 

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