Blue Velvet Ch 01
It was nineteen seventy-seven, the middle of the disco era. I was a twenty-one year old man living at home with my mother. I know that sounds very strange and pathetic but it really wasn’t as sad as it sounds. I had actually planned on enlisting in the army after I dropped out of college the previous spring but family events intervened. My parents had a long term if somewhat distant relationship. But then what relationship isn’t a bit distant after twenty plus years. I had noticed a bit more...