Karen & Olivia: Another Place and Time

A small boy in an Italian film, projected-age marriage calculus, and a scorched wooden bridge (repost)

(This is a repost from last fall when I had two subscribers, and they both had the same last name.)

When I was seven years old things got so musically out of hand, I was forbidden to play the Carpenters when other family members were present in the home.

“The Singles 1969-1973” was my first record. It had an all-brown cover with an embossed logo that I r…