Clark Fredericks

You need straight A's now to get into Northeastern.

But that's where I went to school and it was in the 80s.

And I tried cocaine for the first time.

Absolutely instant love affair.

Like, cause it took away, I'm filled with shame.

I'm filled with insecurities.

just self-loathing, self-hatred and doing a line of coke, it made you outgoing and confident and strong and personable and

i met i was sitting in the student l center studying one day at a four-person table four chairs by myself notebooks spread out books spread out and uh

this cute bubbly girl plops down in the chair across from me, throws her legs up over the armrest and just goes into this torrent of words.

And I'm just sitting there like, you know, mesmerized by her.

Like, who is this?

You know, like intrigued and mesmerized.

And she captured my heart in that moment.

And for the next five, six years, we dated off and on.

Northeastern had a co-op program where, you know, you work in, you go to school for six months, you work for six months in a job related to your major.

So sometimes you're working in Boston, other times you're working outside of Boston.

We would lose track of each other.

There's no cell phone.

Somehow we would always find our way back to each other.

And one thing she used to say back then is that, you know, soldiers come back from war and they got this thousand mile stare.