“I left New York to move here in 1972. I was running away from a marriage and I just thought ‘No…it’s not gonna work’ so I came here.”
“What made you feel it wasn’t going to work?”
“You know, he was my high school sweetheart but he had to go to Vietnam. Since he was in college he could apply for the services and not be drafted so he applied for the Navy. He ended up going to Japan and when he came back he was such a different person, angry and weird. He started beating me. My friend said, ‘You’re not gonna marry him are you?’ and I said, ‘I don’t know’. She said, ‘Can’t you tell he’s crazy’. It’s so weird when you’re in love with people you don’t see them like that.”