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 LIES LIES LIES A TRUE STORY BY CHRIS WING

I've been trying to get at this for years. Bunches of notes and lists have been assembled. There's a 36,840-word draft sitting in my computer that I last worked on in 2004. The draft is useless. My writing style is contemptible. But now, with time racing by, I hope I can bite the bullet and get this thing moving. Just for the hell of it. After all, I love to write. But I am undisciplined in every way. Wish me luck. And thanks for stopping by. We may all live to regret it. I've had to be somewhat creative with some names. Even one of my sisters doesn't want her real name used because she is wary of a certain freak who kidnapped her at gunpoint. All she needs is for that creep to google her name and learn who what where. Also there are some folks who have gone on to fame, fortune or otherwise have found notoriety. I'll have to cross those bridges when I get to them. Nothing published here has been proofread or edited. If you can help, please let me know.

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STUFF ADDED IN JAN-FEB 2010

Jumping Around in Time

Passage of Time

Entrapment

The Family Tree Branches Out

Some Assembly Required - Families Untied

California Landing

Mom and Dad had Real Jobs

Crimes and Punishments

Moving On Up

With Grampa in Tow

Hoag Memorial Hospital

Baby's On Fire

The Case of the

Humorless Humerus

The Terrified Typist

Setting the Bone

Surviving the Recovery Room

Home Again

Break Number Three

Footnotes

Welcome to Gilfooleyland

Yosemite

Let the Fire Fall

The Loudest Sound

Kings Canyon

Trepidation to this Day

Seeing the USA in our Chevrolet

The Grand Canyon

Cedar Rapids Iowa

The Bump on the Head

Radio City Music Hall

Seeing the USA in our Chevrolet

The Grand Canyon

Cedar Rapids Iowa

The Automat

Braintree Five Corners

An Amusement Park Without Rides

Freak Shows

Tijuana

Side Trips

Pacific Ocean Park

Catalina

The Preacher in the Desert

Charles A. Lindberg Elementary School

Everett A. Rae Junion High School

Newport Harbor High School

Education Interruptus

Costa Mesa High School

Marge and Her Girls

Peggy Noden

Chatasma Cactus

Wendy Terror

East LA

The Insomniac

GARDEN GROVE

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Novice in Boyland

Juvenile Hall

California Youth Authority

Foster Care

The DJ and the Thief

History! Romance!

The Jolly Roger

Factory Boy

Newport Beach

Empty House 1970

HITCHING EAST

PART ONE

Getting There (Is Half the Fun)

Setting Out Round One

Lunching at the Drugstore

Oh Did I Digress

If You'll Just Wait Outside

Oak Ridge Tennessee

Resting in the Heartland

HITCHING EAST

BRAINTREE FIVE CORNERS

The Quick Leap East

Ambush at Quincy

Braintree Five Corners

He's A Rebel

December

1962 becomes 1963 becomes 1962

Inventor Filmmaker Wonderland

Sunset Boulevard and Leo

As for Wonderland Drive

El Paso County Jail

1963

GREY MEETS BLACK

Going East Again

Sleeping in the Snow

Autumn In New York

Get A Job

The Hotel and the Cabbie

The Basement Apartment

Let's Go Away For Awhile

Vaguely Like a Court Appearance

Assassination

Medfield

According to Doyle

Other Than Doyle

Someplace to Belong

The Metropolitan - Overture

The Metropolitan - Main Theme

Chestnut Street

Doris and Margaret

The Real Agnes Gooch

Transition

Emergency

Continental Breakfast Lunch and Dinner

And Speaking of Gay

It's Coming Back To Me Now

Cambridge

Gang Turf

Ronnie has a Question

JOBS

Chores

High School

After High School

Factory Boy

Temporarily Hollywood and Everywhere Else

The Internal Revenue Service

The Jolly Roger

Boston Jobs

New York Jobs

San Francisco Jobs

Austin Jobs

LOVE WITHOUT BONERS

TEEN IDOLS

We're gonna like what we like so buzz off

I'd be more foolish if I tried to list them all

What I listened to as a teenager

A reader contributes a Bobby Vee item!

Dion - Connie - Brian - Del - Rydell - Vee

One hit wonders - B-sides - 45 rpm fetish

THE ASTROLOGER

Like a Hot Potato

A brief lesson in foolishness

The Navigator

Look to the Stars for yourself

Bunk-a-dee-bunk-a-dee-bunk

AMSTERDAM

Laura Lipton went to London

Chelsea Walk

The Astrologer

The Rapist

The Journalist

Amsterdam once

Amsterdam twice

Civilization at last

Aboard the Robin Lee Duncan

Captain Willem Loots

The brushing of teeth

Smugglers in our midst

Toni Brown drops by

The Ship Museum

The family in Hilversum

Rotterdam train

Paul Nygaard

No round trip was no trip at all

Reuniting with the Captain

1968

Bachelor Quarters

Eddie Tiraco

TRIPODS

OF ALL THAT'S BEEN WRITTEN

THIS IS THE BIGGEST MESS

The original chapter nineteen

Warning!

Collingwood Street

The bookbinder

The veteran

The Australian

Ronnie arrives

Doing the Castro Street Walk

The roots of coincidence

Epilogue

Felis Catus en Memorium Perpetua

Walking With My Dog Name Cat

Yet Another Pet Story

Plan B

Time Marches On

Detour

The O is Silent

Close Encounter of the Crappiest Kind

Keep Your Laws Off My Body

Who Hates Ralph Nader More Than

Ronnie

Barry

Chabella

Moran

Pogue

MEMORY NOTES

PENDING NOBODY'S APPROVAL

DRUGS

We Saw it on the Cover of a Life Magazine

BE MY BABY THEN YOU CAN TELL ME GOODBYE

New York 1963, 1966, 1967, 1968

Stormy and Wendy and Larry and Ronnie and Joe

The Summer of Love

BOSTON BLACK OUT

Gay In Boston

Provincetown 64

North Truro 74

BOSTON THREE

The Many Years of Ronnie

From Emerson College to Hell and Back

Resisting the Draft

LUNCH IN PHILADELPHIA

The World Series

THE HOLLYWOOD BOWL MEETS THE FILLMORE

Noises I Have Made and Heard

THREE PACKS A DAY

The Mescalito Kool

SAN FRANCISCO

Bachelor Quarters

Eddie Tiraco

The Doctor's Wife

Noe Street

Langley Porter Neurological Institute

Cruising In Church

Boner Vista Park

GAS WARS

The Family in Atherton

The Wandering Astrologer

AMSTERDAM

Laura Lipton Comes To London

The Houseboat On Zeeburgerdijk

Sweden

AUSTIN

The Piano Man

Huns Hate Police

Aerospace Engineering

Doctor Wilma P. Griffin

Sharon Tate’s Baby

Jerryskids

Capitol City Playhouse and Beyond

WORKING

WHEN I'M SIXTY FOUR-FIVE-SIX-SEVEN

WILL YOU STILL BE MY BLUE HEAVEN