The People In Our Lives

"In the end it's the people in our lives who provide the balance to help us make it through life."
-KYLE-XY, Season II

Twenty-five years ago today:

June 13, 1985
Thursday

Dale drove right up next to me in the parking lot in San Francisco on this morning.
“I’ve changed my mind and I am definitely not going to gossip anymore,” Dale said.
“Oh, you are, huh?”
“Yes, I have a second chance with you and Rachelle and I don’t want to intrude. I blew it with Joe and Ryan and I don’t want it to ever happen again.”
“What happened with Joe and Ryan anyway?”
“Oh, I don’t want to go into the whole story.”
“Okay, whatever.”

Rachelle is worried.
“Michael, I think I may be pregnant!”
And last night we did ‘IT’ again, so nine months from now…who knows? Now I’m worried. I love her so, yet, sometimes I wonder if she realizes how much I do. She always wants reassurance. I wish my words were more persuasive.

I was supposed to go to TGIF’s tonight for Mary McTiernan’s birthday but I decided against it. I came home and Rachelle was there. We remained at my house and ‘played’. Then we went to Central Alameda for a bite to eat. There weren’t any good restaurant choices, so we ended up at the Ice-Cream Dock. Rachelle saw a ring she liked at the Harbor Bay Isle Jewelers display window.

After dinner we went back to my house and cuddled along with all of that good stuff. I love her body so. I hope she loves mine as much—but with Bob Maloney as competition I feel a bit of a downer. She almost thrives on it when she uses him as a jealousy ploy.

Margaret Lai is having a birthday party for her son, Lance in July. She wants me, Rachelle and Ashley to attend. I think that might be fun. Margaret is a sweetie.

Danny Garcia called me. He is in a kind of a downer mood. I think it’s because the way things aren’t with him and Robert now. Then again he claims to be glad of the break-up. He is still living with Laurie (a weird kind of gal). Anyway, Danny somehow arranged it to come over here--to my house--for a visit on Tuesday night 'to talk' over dinner. He knows about me and Rachelle.
In fact, Danny said, “I’m glad that you’ve found someone that you truly feel happy with.”

Rachelle and I still have our ‘ups and downs’ as is the case with most relationships. Our good times do outweigh the bad…I think.

"You wouldn't believe what a dead finger does to a living hand. You can't draw with it if you want to become an architect, you can't type in an office, you can't grab hold of things where there's heavy labor to be done. Little devil of a tendon, just a wisp of a thing, and everything you want to do in your LIFE hangs by a thread like that. It's like when you make a mistake of a millimeter on the ground plan of a building, one little thing and it all comes crashing down."
-Stefan Zweig
"The Post-Office Girl"