Summer of ’77
Summer of 77
Ari Dupree
There once was a young women , lets call her Lovey, who had a
fancy for me . She snuck me her number as I was dining , drinking and
laughing with friends , without her parents seeing . We met and partied
while watching some deer feeding , we decided we could make
something here . We started dating and I don’t remember the beginning ,
guess I was to overcome with the love
disease , glad to finally just have some good lovin. It got even better
when she said she was moving out to Southampton for the summer , she
already had a job serving food in the diner where sunrise hwy and
montauk hwy merge into one lane , and a place to live . A cute little
studio in a row of studios with a sauna in the basement laundry area , it
could have been on north sea rd . I believe it was just east of the canal to
the north . I was lucky to have met up with her because I had never
done that sort of thing before . It started with 4 of us , sharing a studio
and 2 of us not paying rent and one of those was me . We were buns up
kneeling, wheeling and dealing .
I hung up a sheet to get some privacy because I wasn’t into being
watched and seeing others have sex , I felt it was easier then being
distracted or inhibited . It worked for me and no one else said anything .
Sooner then later I was asked to tell one other not to come by any more .
How was it up to me ? It was my friend who she was banging , which is
about all they were doing not much of a friendship , but I did step up
and tell him its over . Guess that helped me earn me some points ?
By this time with unemployment benefits coming in , I was hanging
in the Hamptons and using Lovey’s car to drive her to work and then
spend the day doing what I had always done , looking for women’s
clothes to wear and going to the beach . She did not know about the
clothes and I wouldn’t admit anyway . I did some fishing also , really
the canal was right there and what else did I do when she was
working ?
Least I forget she had 4 other female friends living nearby all
together right in the middle of the village above a very upscale
boutique , I cant remember the name of . Across the street from the
Drivers seat restaurant , is that still there ? Doesn’t this sound like a
sweet deal ? I would go visit them when I was lonely and spent time hanging with 1 , 2 , 3 or 4 other women in Southampton village while
Lovey worked and she was happy that she knew where I was .
One day I almost blew it by having another women in our studio
while Lovey worked and she came home to find us there . The other
women was only a neighbor who was locked out , but Lovey was fuming ,
man was she fuming !!! It was totally innocent , I swear nothing
happened , she cooled off soon after breaking into the other studio and
“helping’’ the women out . Or perhaps while I was in the sauna in the
complex because I had such a hard day . That sauna was sweet and it
was great on hot summer nights because after that it did not feel so hot
out . We had no air conditioner which sounds strange these days but I