The TRAX series tells a love story. Volumes one through three are set in the boroughs of New York, 1968-72. She was a skinny wisp of a girl, and he was a graduate student at NYU. They drove a Mustang, a Chevy pickup truck, owned two big dogs, and rented a studio in Alphabet City. He was a diamond courier after classes and she worked at the bank. The charm of the book is the events they each recall, and the way the details are remembered-after forty years.
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
The Real Skinny: "Pretty much on the same page"
The Real Skinny (according to Boy): Boy and Girl were pretty much on the same page on this one. Certain details were confused. When the stories diverge, most likely Boy was more correct. That seems likely because his role was the more active one in the story of the shirt. Obviously, Girl ad-libbed the bit about FedEx, as that company was incorporated thirty years after this story unfolded. For the most part, Girl had to base her memories of the shirt on what Boy said through the years. (I have now learned that while "FedEx Corporation" was incorporated in 2000, "Federal Express" has existed since 1973 or 1974. So, I supposed you could say that Girl was right about that too.)
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