Monday, May 18, 2009

181. The girl had another boyfriend,

yet she was still drawn to the man like a moth to flame.
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179. However, the man was now living

with his ex-wife, who knew nothing about the baby.
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178. The man came back to town

to claim the girl, now the mother of a baby girl, who decided, against all prevailing opinion, to keep the child.
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177. Like all good plans, however,

this one would go awry.
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176. The plan: the girl would have

the child and give it up for adoption.
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175. Pregnant girl and slightly wounded

Snowball (the girl refused to budge without the dog) would accompany her parents back home.
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174. So a deal was reached

among the girl’s parents, the man, and the Las Vegas police--one officer, actually.
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173. The gun, in fact, was wielded

against the girl. “Take the little bitch back,” the man told her parents.
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172. So the dog, a German Shepherd, lived

and came to be known as Snowball and would later protect the fruit of the girl’s womb.
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171. Okay, so the previous is a bit overstated

and does not work well within the plot line. What does one do with the dead dog, anyway?
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170. There was an ugly scene involving a gun,

a dead dog, and three Las Vegas squad cars.
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169. By the time the girl’s parents

found her, she was already 18 and six months pregnant.
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168. They bought a white trailer

with a purple stripe, towed it to Las Vegas, and set it up in a trailer park filled with seedy characters.
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167. What followed next is unclear.

Maybe they got married, and maybe they didn’t. But they did set up housekeeping together.
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166. The truck driver took pity on them

and treated them to a steak dinner, then dropped them off in Flagstaff, Arizona.
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165. The truth: he still in striped prison garb,

met her behind a cold storage facility; they hitched a ride with a truck driver.
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164. The cliche: buy a ladder,

set up to the girl’s second floor window, and coax her down, she in high heels with cosmetic case in hand.
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163. Upon his release, the man and girl

made urgent plans to elope.
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162. The girl wrote breathy,

desperate love letters to the man while he served his prison term.
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161. After one semester, the girl

was kicked out of the boarding school for causing undue agitation, the last straw: instigating a food fight.
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160. Meanwhile, the man’s wife divorced him

and refused him any visitation rights to their children.
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159. By the time the man had served

his prison term, the girl was 17, almost 18.
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158. For corrupting the morals of a minor,

the man was fined $1,000 and sentenced to two years in prison.
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157. The girl was sent to a Catholic boarding

school near Pickstown, South Dakota.
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156. The police found the two runaways

at a gas station in Reno, Nevada.
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