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Scope and Contents BOOK ONE and BOOK TWO labelled Jmonique.17e. Includes Dad's fight with Mamita for custody of me, and her long, sad, final letter when he gave me to Aunt Mollie. There's also his flight to Cayenne, Guiana, just before leaving Miami. Pretty clean, with some Post-Its and edits. BOOK ONE has 279 pages. BOOK TWO has 146 pages. Total of 426 pages.

Scope and Contents BOOK ONE about Monique's life and death, labelled Jmonique.17j. Includes description of my 1994 endocarditis while Monique was dying in 1942 of same disease. Has a short epilogue of 30 pages that includes me hearing Dad and Monique's 1939 record made at San Francisco expo, and Pop's 1951 article about Berkeley's Aquatic Park based on his and Monique's 1940-41 observations. A clean draft. 270 pages.

Scope and Contents BOOKS ONE and TWO labelled Jmonique.17k/l, a clean draft with a few Post-Its. "Long version." Covers Monique and Dad's life together, and the life of my father from 1942 until his death in 1998. BOOK ONE is 252 pages. BOOK TWO is 149 pages. Total of 402 pages.

Scope and Contents BOOK ONE, labelled Jmonique.17k-short version. Clean draft with some Post-Its. Starts with Dad and Monique's meeting, then their courtship, marriage, and her death. Followed by an epilogue from page 229-269 of Monique's 1931 arrival in U.S., Peacock Point, meeting with Oqwa Pi, travel out west, and ending during 1933 Santa Fe fiestas. Followed by 12 pages of acknowledgements. The structure doesn't work at all. Bad choice! 269 pages.

Scope and Contents BOOK ONE and BOOK TWO, labelled Jmonique.17m. During their BOOK ONE courtship Monique tells dad about Oqwa Pi and her adventures out west. Draft mentions their sexual difficulties. And prints out entirely Monique's last 4 letters. Gives description of my 1994 endocarditis. And includes Dad and Mamita's 1942 fight for custody of me. BOOK TWO includes Brownie's temper, her Borderline Mother anger, Dad and Brownie's bitter divorce, Brownie's attack on me, Pop's treachery. Describes Pop's...

Scope and Contents BOOK ONE and BOOK TWO, labelled Jmonique.17u in a clean draft. Includes Morris Witten's February 2017 critique of the book and my letter of gratitude in return. BOOK ONE goes to p. 249. Then there's a 16-page "Flashback" to Pop's life between 1935-1937 as a field zoologist for the American Museum. Followed by BOOK TWO from 250-406. Then a 13-page "Flashback" of Monique during 1932-1933, detailing her 1932 visits to Italy and Belgium, then her return to America, trip out west, working at...

Scope and Contents BOOK ONE and BOOK TWO, labelled Jmonique.17w. It has many corrections, and edits, and Post-Its done between December 15, 2016 and January 5, 2017 attempting to corral BOOKS ONE and TWO into a better single ms. 414 pages. NOTE: I HAVE TRIAGED OUT OF THIS INVENTORY 14 DRAFTS OF THE BOOK DATED FROM AUGUST 1 TO DECEMBER 15, WHICH WERE EITHER DOUBLES OF DRAFTS I HAVE MENTIONED ABOVE, OR HAD SO FEW CORRECTIONS OR DEVIATIONS FROM THE MANUSCRIPTS MENTIONED ABOVE THAT I JUST FELT THEY WERE TAKING UP...

Scope and Contents BOOK ONE and BOOK TWO combined in a single volume, labelled Jmonique.17x. Clean, original draft, a rewrite of #68 just above. 354 pages (plus 7).

Scope and Contents BOOK ONE and BOOK TWO combined as a single volume, labelled as Jmonique.17x-plus. Hand corrected and severely edited to be a shorter book. Chapters numbered far differently than above. Corrections between January 8 and January 21, 2017. Many chapters and sections moved around, edited out. Chaotic toward the end. Contains inserts from other drafts like Jmonique.14d. Approximately 365 pages.