A Story of My Life, Part 18: Home Alone in 1992
1992
This is the episode I've been putting off writing for quite some time now.
Ed, the manager of the winery where I worked and my boss, got divorced. We all felt for him. he was such a good boss: kind, patient, decisive when it was necessary for somebody to be, and a great problem solver. His wife ran off to Idaho (her home state) with her lover, leaving Ed with two sons at home, to finish raising by himself.
Ed and I had become good friends. He very generously gave me rides back and forth to work every day. He was 40 years old: I was 25 years old. I believe I fell in love with his brains. Nothing turns me on like a man who can think.
We got married in December of 1985.
I moved into Ed's house. I was a big-sister kind of stepmom to his two sons. We settled down--we had a nice life going, with the kids and the house and the cat and the dog. The kids accepted me after a while. Of course, they missed their real mother, and I have no doubt she missed them, but they adjusted fairly well, I thought. They were good kids, a little wild, maybe. They were unsupervised between the time they got out of school and the time Ed and I got out of work. It was surprising, what they could come up with to do with that free hour and a half or so! Kids don't think like adults do, until they are good and ready.
Ed had a hobby. He built and flew model aircraft. He had a workshop in the basement, and that's where he spent most of his free time. I had my books to read; I had my piano.
I say it again, it was a really nice life we had going on there.
Ed wanted to go on vacation, to Florida, to Daytona Beach. I couldn't go with him because he and I were the only two agents of the company who could make registered excise tax pre-payments.
So Ed went alone to Florida, driving down on a Sunday and expected back the following Saturday night. He called me every night, but those conversations were sort of bland. Ed was never really a phone person.
He didn't make it home Saturday night. The last phone call I got from him was on Thursday. Uh-oh! I was nearly out of my mind with worry. I was envisioning a car accident. I didn't quite know what to do.
I got a phone call Sunday afternoon, from a bailbondsman. Ed was in the Dade County Jail. The charges?
Lewd and lascivious behavior to a child.
The very last thing I would have expected from such a modest man, such a homebody.
Les Folies Bergere
1992
January 1
| US President George Bush becomes the first US President to address the Austrailian Parliment
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January 6
| Bosnian Serbs declare their own republic
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January 11
| Singer Paul Simon is the first major artist to tour South Africa after the apartheid sanctions are lifted
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January 16
| El Salvador officials and rebel leaders sign a pact in Mexico City to end the 12-year civil war
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March 9
| The People's Republic of China ratifies the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
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April 9
| A Miami, Florida jury convicts former Panamanian ruler Manuel Noriega of aiding the Columbian cocaine cartel
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April 29
| A jury acquits four LAPD officers of excessive force int eh videotaped beating of Rodney King, sparking off a major LA riot, causing 53 deaths and over $1 billion in damages.
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May 1
| A Lindhurt High School student, Eric Houston, of Yuba County, California, kills 4 and injures 9, holding many students hostage.
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May 22
| After thirty years, Johnny Carson retires, and Jay Leno takes his place.
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June 22
| Two skeletons excavated in Russia are identified as Czar Nicholas II and Tsarina Alexandria.
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August 11
| The largest shopping mall in the United States, the Mall of America, opens in Minnesota. It covers 78 acres.
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September 12
| Dr. Mae Jemison becomes the first African American woman to travel in space.
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October 3
| After performing a song protesting alleged child abuse by the Roman Catholic Church, Sinead O'Connor rips up a photo of Pope John Paul II on Saturday Night Live, causing a huge controversy.
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October 24
| The Toronto Blue Jays win the World Series, becoming the first Canadian team to win.
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Ocober 24
| Pope John Paul II issues an apology, and lifts the edict of the Inquisition agains Galileo Galilei. (Finally!)
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November 3
| Bill Clinton beats incumbent George Bush in the 1992 US Presidential Election
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November 20
| A fire breaks out in Windsor Castle, causing over 50 million pounds worth of damage.
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December 9
| Prince Charles and Princess Diana announce their separation.
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December 20
| The Folies Bergere Music Hall closes in Paris.
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From "Basic Instinct"
1992 at the Movies!
- Aladdin
- Home Alone 2 (Lost in New York)
- Batman Returns (directed by Tim Burton)
- Lethal Weapon 3
- A Few Good Men
- Sister Act
- The Bodyguard
- Wayne's World
- Basic Instinct
- A League of Their Own
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- A Story of My Life, Part 17
True stories from the not-so-usual life of a baby boomer, Part 17. 1982; living alone is a Risky Business! - A Story of My Life, Part 19
True stories from the not-so-usual life of a baby boomer, Part 19. 1992, continued, and what happened next.
