Lightning in a BottleChapter 30 Doing Christmas Right This Time
December 20, 1982 Finals were over, and with that, so was the fall semester. I wished all of my dorm friends a very happy holiday, checked out of the residence hall for the month-long winter break, and drove back home. I left my band stuff – the keyboard and the guitar – at the Andrade residence. We'd had one more practice since the first one, and planned to play together several times during the winter break. Once again, my car would be logging major miles up and down the turnpike. It was...