Genesis of Love: A First Romance

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Tom and Tina meet on a beach in Golden Shore, a college town in Southern California. The time is 1970, a year after the lunar landing and Kent State shootings. He is a Vietnam veteran working in aerospace but thinking about returning to school for a degree in English, so he can become a writer. Tom is newly sober but still haunted by the demons of Vietnam. Tina is entering her senior year of college and about to begin her student teaching. Her parents and divorced and she is estranged from her playboy father. Tom and Tina meet when her rolled-up towel is tossed like a football from friend to friend. The towel flies over the boardwalk railing and plunges down to strike Tom unawares. He rolls on the sand and starts to take aim with the assault rifle he no longer carries. Tom sees Tina rushing up to apologize. The whole world slows as they meet, eye to eye, with the attraction between them palpable and immediate. Will Tom get the offer from the university and move here? Will he be able to stay sober and conquer his flashbacks? Will Tina finally be able to let a man get past her defenses? Can they make it as a couple? Genesis of Love is set in a time of great social change, including the Free Love Movement and Student Demonstrations, with events of great historical importance, like the Vietnam War and Apollo 11. It was an Age of Innocence, before the term PTSD had even been coined, when people still believed in education and the power of love to redeem a human soul. J.R. Fisher, or just plain Jim, is also the author of The Adventures of J.R. Engels in the Great Pacific Northwest, a rollicking romp through the Olympic Mountains in the State of Washington, in which J.R. learns to fish for salmon and poach elk, while encountering Vampires and Sasquatch.