Boomerang

You can’t put the genie back in the bottle

873 Wilfred Avenue, Santa Rosa — winter 1973

I lasted about four months.

I’d hitched back out to Sonoma County in December and landed at a cottage on Wilfred Avenue in Santa Rosa with two roommates — Susan, a twenty-year-old music student at Sonoma State who played guitar, piano, and flute and owned a Martin D-28, and Melody, twenty-four, an expressive ar…