When a pretty girl at the beach passed you had to imagine more then you could see.
When a matter of race had something to do with a track.
When you held your partner close when you danced.
When the usual four letter word heard in a song was ‘love’
When radio talk shows were ‘Jack Benny 'and ‘The Lone Ranger.’
When the ‘Yankee Dollar’ was respected and demanded by the world.
When a Cadillac was a symbol of wealth and gas was fifty cents a gallon.
When dinner was eaten at noon and supper after work at five oclock.
When passing grades in school were earned by the students and not given just to move them up and out of the system.
When Hollywood made movies without under- the –cover- thrashing around scenes, and movies without foul language and movies without restroom urination activity.
When the most recognized drugs known to most were aspirin and alka seltzer.
When street gangs were a bunch of boys choosing up sides for baseball.
When the word ‘gay’ meant happy or cheerful
When the government had programs called CCC (civilian conservation core) , and the WPA (work progress administration) which gave people jobs with self respect instead of third generation welfare families.
When the President and the Congress were looked at with respect.
Five years have passed. The sequel to the award-winning Chapel of Eternal Love, this book revisits the same couples in the first book, and where the lives have taken them since they left the altar at The Chapel of Eternal Love
Imogene, a country-bred girl, longs to make a life for herself in New York City. She joins forces with her former college roommate to start a movie production company in the big city.
Just as life during the pandemic was color-coded with different hues representing different levels of danger, life in its aftermath has become shaded in similar ways. As a self-styled “Seeker of Beauty with Beauty,” (borrowing from a quote by W.E.B.
