Learning to fly -- Frannie's days of yore -- The coming of the Cold War -- Waiting out Korea -- Camping out in Miami and Topsail -- School pains and home wars -- Trouble with the Army -- Strange days in the Deep South -- Coming of age in California -- Cold War Catholicism, JFK, and Cuba -- The discipline of synchronized swimming -- Saint Brigit/Bardot -- Back to the swamps -- Transition out of America -- Germany in the sixties -- At play in the fields of empire -- Following European politics -- Making a home in Paris -- New constellations -- An immoveable feast -- Our friends the draft resisters -- Show down with Frannie -- May '68 -- Show down with Jack -- Lost days -- Heidelberg redux -- A beaker of the warm South -- The end of the Cold War.