Call it a day girls, we go to work at the hotel tomorrow.’ It had all gone differently 40 years earlier in 1962. * * * * Two attractive, and most...y naked college juniors were having a blast. They were on a drop cloth in an old high school gym. Paint was everywhere. It was on the drop cloth, on the ladders, but mostly on them. Angie had tubes of art paint in each hand. Gretchen had just given up her brush and had grabbed the whole bucket of house paint. Before the inevitable happened… ‘Cut.. ‘Well, maybe we could split it—three a piece?’ ‘That’s a shitty mark-up on your end—don’t you have a fake ID?’ She cocked her head to the side. Robert thought the way her ponytail fell across her shoulder was particularly flattering, being the kind of guy who notices such things. ‘Not anymore—hey, this is a real apology. I’m just trying to be nice here, Robbie.’ ‘Robert.’ ‘Robbie’s better.’ ‘Robert,’ he said insistently. ‘And you don’t have to fake it. I’ll buy you a six-pack, just this once,. Both Natalie and I kiss Brett on the cheek and I tell him to follow us to the house.As Brett follows us, Natalie and I cross a set of railroad tracks just before the gates go down. The gates come down before Brett can cross and I have Natalie call him on the the cell phone."Hi, Brett." Hi, Natalie." We will meet you at the house, Brett." See you soon, Natalie."Arriving home, I tell Natalie to wait downstairs and wait for Brett. I go upstairs to Natalie's room, close the shades and place a few. They had spent the day at the rink in Reseda (not the converted bowling alley but the nice one on Parthenia). It was closed for skate sessions that day so Peggy had brought along a boom box and she had spent the afternoon showing her some basic dance steps. And once she got those down Peggy started giving her pointers in backwards skating.“It was like totally awesome! After I got to where I could go around the rink more than once without falling down, she started ‘rexing’! And she was so.