Our Mates and Friends

Christine married three times. Her second husband was Richard Partlow, an actor and sound man who won a Grammy. The Partlows attended my wedding reception at my brother’s house. We had a major falling out two years earlier, so they snubbed me and my wife, who lived with Thomas Pynchon in Mexico for two years in the 60s. Christine said she was only there to see her ex-lover, Bryan Maclean who had been a member of the rock group Love, whose album ‘Forever Changes’ is titled the American Sargeant Pepper. There were only about ten people there. It was a Creative Constellation.

Maryanne’s best friend, Sandy, flew down with us. Her father was a CEO of Standard Oil. He, and most of his family were murdered by a black extremists group who invaded their home on Thanksgiving. Sandy arrived late to find nine members of her family blown away by…