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April 23, 2023 – Key West – Journal Entry

April 26, 2023 – 3:15 pm

The Bertonis are leaving on Monday and all the flights to New York City are booked into the next week. There is always the possibility of a stand-by seat, but the flight is too expensive. School Break prices, so it appears that I will be stuck in Key West $80 in my pocket. Hitchhiking from […]

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APRIL 19, 1981 – KEY WEST – JOURNAL ENTRY

April 24, 2023 – 12:15 pm

It’s Easter and I search the streets of Key West for a kindred lost soul. The Bertonis have gone on a snorkeling trip to celebrate the Nailed God’s rising from the dead. Giuiliana suggested this was a family outing and I stayed ashore.. I see no one like me. Only soulless tourists. I go into […]

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LOVE BOAT KEY WEST – APRIL 18, 1981 – JOURNAL

April 24, 2023 – 10:33 am

The dirty love boat beached at Duvall Street’s eastern end. All its voyages everywhere The Final stop. Key West. Castro refugees fled Havana Keeping boats afloat with prayers, curses And a lot of bailing. Not one didn’t abandon ship Once the dirty love boat stuck sand Not one them are here now And where are […]

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April 17, 1981 – Key West – Journal Entry

April 20, 2023 – 7:00 pm

The Bertonis’ rental house in Key West is cool. I have my own bedroom and Guiliana and here daughter cook our meals. Giancarlo, the NYU’s head anesthesiologist, chills at the beach reading and smoking weed we buy off the street. It’s nothing special, but he likes it that way. I devote my early afternoons to […]

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APRIL 15, 1981 – HITCHING TO FLORIDA – JOURNAL ENTRY

April 20, 2023 – 12:41 pm

I walked our of the Mudd Club at dawn. The gray skies promised snow. I had my bag in hand. I headed to the Holland Tunnel and stuck out my thumb. I was hitchhiking to Florida to meet my friends, the Bertonis, in Key West. The first ride took me to Philadelphia. I wasn’t on […]

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