Unexpected Company

Their relationship was built on friendship, and in matters of friendship he was boundlessly loyal. It was a relationship that would survive the harshest tests.
-Stieg Larsson
“The Girl Who Played With Fire”

Twenty-five years ago today

November 23, 1985
Saturday

My garage door screwed up on me last night. Oh well. I told ‘ma’ to tell ‘da’ this morning. Chad and I had a full Saturday to spend together.

We had some unexpected company. My sis-in-law, Sherri, came over for a little while. Then Chad and I went to La Petit Boulangerie. Sherri accompanied us to The City (San Francisco) and we ended up shopping around. Sherri bought my brother, John, some POLO clothes. Chad and I admired one another secretly. We returned to my pad and hung out. Sherri had gone home.

Chad and I were going to go to FAT FANNY’s. Instead, we went to The Acapulco, a Mexican Restaurant, in Alameda. We returned to my place and watched Hitchcock’s NORTH BY NORTHWEST. Then we went to bed. He was ‘within’ me for the second night in a row. It was fine.

“Nobody can avoid falling in love,” he said, “They might want to deny it, but friendship is probably the most common form of love.”
-Stieg Larsson
“The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest”