In the top photo we see my childhood sweetheart, Marilyn Reed, and Joan Corbett, my ex-wife’s best friend who found members of her family – SLAUGHTERED! Joan flew down to L.A. with Mary Ann Tharaldson and I. Mary Ann lived with Thomas Pynchon who in his novel ‘Inherent Vice’ summons the evil spirit of Charlie Manson, as does Quentin Tarantino is his movie ‘Once Upon A Time In Hollywood’.  There is very graphic fictional violence in that movie, that struck home!

My friend, Bryan MacLean, sang at my wedding to Mary Ann. He said he may come to my wedding reception at my brother’s house. He did not show up. He said he was invited to dinner by his friend Sharon Tate the night the Manson Crew showed up, but, honored a previous commitment, and thus – LIVED! The group Love that Bryan played in is at the epicenter of…