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Box 186

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GOODBYE, MONIQUE (12), 2008

 File — Box: 186, Folder: 26
Scope and Contents Another shot at a novel about my dad. I'd say 2008, but could be off a few years. Told by a John Nichols surrogate named Jonathon Bowersmith. Another attempt to create a portrait of my dad . . . and yours truly, that I abandoned after these 9 typed pages. And none too soon, at that!
Dates: 2008

GOODBYE, MONIQUE (13), 2008, 2012

 File — Box: 186, Folder: 27-28
Scope and Contents Box 1 of my original attempt at a full draft of the book. Written in 2008-2009, and with millions of hand-corrections put in when I returned to the book in 2012. Basically, this folder contains Monique's life and death, from 1915 to 1942. 310 pages with hand-pagination at bottom of each page.
Dates: 2008; 2012

GOODBYE, MONIQUE (14), 2008-2009, 2012

 File — Box: 186, Folder: 29
Scope and Contents Box 2 of my original draft. Contains Dad in Marine Corps, WWII, married to Brownie 1944, she adopts me. Dad bans Mamita from seeing me. Dad in CIA 1951-1959, Argentine fiasco, Brownie bitter divorce 1956-57. My 1957 summer out west, Pop love letters to 3rd wife Kathy, Grandpa death 1958. Me and Pop studying crows in Washington D.C. Kathy/Dad in Berkeley, Kath's breakdowns, Dad's affairs, his struggle for psycholinguistics PhD in Berkeley. He moves to Colorado Springs with Kathy to be psych prof...
Dates: 2008-2009; 2012