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Scope and Contents Box 3 of original draft. Contains: my visit to French grandmother Mamita in Barcelona, 1960. Year with Mamita, 1962-63. Visits to Mamita 1964, 1966. Pop and Brownie fight over child support, 1964-65. My furious blowup with Brownie, 1968. 25 pages on selling French family apartment in Paris. Letters between me and Pop during his UCCS teaching years. Dad as professor; divorcing Kathy; his affairs. My letters to Mamita, her "allowances" to me. Mamita death in 1977. Dad's ideas about language, etc....

Scope and Contents Box 4 of original draft. Includes my false birth certificate at Mamita death, 1977. Grammie's (Dad's mom's) death, 1977. I inherite $$ from Mamita. 16 handwritten pages listing Dad's letters I want to use in book. Pop problems teaching. His old flame, Patsy Jackson. Pop concern about UCCS ethics. Dad's false teeth, his failures, UCCS politics. John Mattingly and French biologist, Louis Kervran. Pop trouble with women, turbulent world. Dad's dreams of Monique; his 4th wife's daughter Carol Brown...

Scope and Contents Box 5 of original draft. Dad's life in Smithville, 1987-1998. Letters from Smithville. His horrified reaction to my novel, American Blood. Dad letters to his shrink. His and my correspondence, 1987-1993. Dad's work in Smithville, his heart problems. His letters to friend, Duck Pond. Me reading Monique's diaries. Dad's environment concerns. My 1990 letters to him asking about Monique. Meaning of life. Dad birding expeditions, proofreading textbooks. My important visit to Dad in Smithville, 1993....

Scope and Contents Box 6 of original draft. This concludes my First Draft of Goodbye, Monique. Dad articles for Smithville Times. Dad persona in TX. He organizes his archives. Drives to Colorado Springs. Sends me Czech porno mags. My work with Greek director Costa-Gavras in Paris. Death of French uncle Nito, 1995. 3rd wife Miel and I in Alicante, 1996, getting fotos, diaries, letters of Monique's from Nito's home. Pop prostate surgery, 1996. His sad trip to NM for Thanksgiving, 1996. Pop dying, our letters and...

Scope and Contents Original pages from Monique's arrival in America in 1931, until her death in 1942 and Pop's departure from Miami Beach soon after. All rewritten in 2012. Xerox, some corrections. 257 pages numbered on bottom of page.

Scope and Contents Clean draft. About June 25, 2012. No chapters. There's a long overview "Prologue" over 40 pages, then book follows Pop and Monique's 1930s childhoods, their courtship and 1938 marriage until Monique's death in 1942, and Pop leaves Miami at the end of November that year. 427 pages.

Scope and Contents Serious rewrite of Part One through Part Five. November 25, 2012 to January 22, 2013. Many hand corrections, and some cut and tape, and Post-Its. Includes prologue, Dad and Monique 1930s childhoods, their 1938 marriage, her death in 1942, and dad's departure from Miami. Around 427 pages, but because of corrections and edits don't know exactly.

Scope and Contents Clean draft, Xerox copy. Jmonique.7 on my computer. January 22, 2013. Story goes from long prologue (Chapter One) through David and Monique's childhoods, courtship, marriage, and Monique's death, after which Dad leaves Miami. Final "Chapter Thirty-One" is a 25-page epilogue summing up Pop's later life from 1942 to his death in 1998, very sketchy. This big ms. is full of information I continually used as BOOK ONE. TMI. Includes Dad's emotional fight for custody of me with Mamita after Monique...

Scope and Contents Contains "Prologue One" of 57 pages from 2012 Jmonique.7. "Prologue Two" is actually Chapter One and pagination restarts here. Many hand corrections, edits, and inserts done over Feb-March 2013. Still about Monique and David childhoods, teenage years, Monique's diaries of her 1931-33 trips to Peacock Point and Out West to Santa Fe. Her work at Lab. of Anthropology there. Dad's childhood, early 1930s wiseass letters from prep school, field zoology adventures. Includes their courtship, marriage,...