John Saunders

During the Parents Without Partners campout, taking Michael home for the summer, a lady stood up and asked if anybody would like to climb a mountain with her. I was the only taker. We had a nice climb and I was my usual polite and helpful British self. When we got back Mollie rather pointedly gave me her phone number and left immediately for work. A few days later, I remembered this and thought it would be discourteous not to call her. Somehow I got to be visiting her at her apartment. While we were talking, she became agitated and said something was wrong. The phone rang: it was very bad news, her only sister had suddenly died in New York, which was Mollie's home town. Mollie is a remarkable person, a true psychic, a nurse who is into holistic medicine, and a very upbeat and pleasant person to be with. Mollie is from New York, and has Russian and Romanian roots. She saw a halo around every living thing, and could tell whether a plant was real or fake from across the room. I started to date her even though I was still living with Priscilla. One day Priscilla came home when Mollie was there. Priscilla actually attacked Mollie! Isn't it every man's dream to watch two women actually fighting over him? Priscilla sued me for "extreme mental cruelty" plus half the condominium. After some wrangling with lawyers we had a final drink together in a bar and she settled for the fifteen grand she had actually put into the condominium, and I would keep it. She moved to the other condominium she owned. I was to pay her $1000 a month for five months, and then it would balloon on the sixth. If I defaulted, she would get the condominium. Fortunately, Mollie lent me the 10K, and I married her. Actually, I fell in love with her. It would take me four years to save the money to pay her back, but I did so on her birthday.

It wasn't a bad marriage. Mollie was always finding fun events to go to and fun places to visit. At the first nudist club we visited it only took her an hour to get used to it. "Nobody is looking at me" she said. Any woman will know what she meant. She probably expected extra ogling because of her huge breasts, but any nudist will tell you that these are rather the norm in this country. She fed me extra-healthy food, especially stir-fried vegetables, and prohibited sugar in the house. I have mostly kept this up and havn't been to a dentist in years.I had bought a motor home and we enjoyed traveling in it, as far as Canada. By this time I had sold the Kawasaki motorcycle and bought a Honda Silver Wing

Mollie is a devout Jew, and we attended Friday service fairly regularly. I quite enjoyed the services, especially the food afterwards. I considered them positive, uplifting, and a practical guide to a moral life.

The main problem in this marriage was her son David, who was eight when they met. He had always tried to spoil any promising relationship she had with a man. He especially would create a disturbance if he awoke while we were making love. If I gave him a toy he would ignore or break it. Mollie tried to give him a good education. One year he attended a "magnet" public school in a minority neighborhood, but he didn't like it. Despite the cost, another time he attended a Jewish day school, but he was not a good scholar, and his classmates tended to be much brighter. The end of our marriage came after seven years when he got to middle school age. The city insisted that he attend the nearest one, since it was in a minority neighborhood, in this case Asian. David flatly refused to go to school, saying the gangs would beat him up. He was a little runt. Mollie left me and went to live in a white area in Santa Rosa. The parting was quite amicable, I let her choose what to take and even drove the moving van.

After a while, Mollie sued for spousal support. She was a careless nurse, and did not have a good employment record. Although she never intended to divorce me, her sneaky attorney had put a divorce petition in front of her, and she signed it without reading it. Thus it came about that we got divorced by mistake, but it took years because she did not want to finalize the divorce.