Gale
96 Gale. The one woman. Joel met her at the University of Utah (see Higher education); they began living together in 1970 and moved to Santa Barbara in 1973. In July 1974 she planned a trip alone to Europe, which Joel (perhaps believing her travel a temporary separation) described in mild terms: “She’s planning a sort of voyage of discovery, hoping to relieve herself of certain doubts she has about the authenticity of her self. This, of course, is expressed in my own terms; Gale simply wishes to try being on her own—something she has never really been.”43 Of her motivations for this separation Gale herself said, “The dreams I thought we shared weren’t there anymore. I was determined to go back to school, to travel, to live frivolously. He was paying bills and talking of buying cars.”44 Toward the end of the year, he knew it was over (see Young manhood), and he left Santa Barbara to look for work in L.A. 43 Letter, July 13, 1974. 44 Gale, e-mail to me, October 30, 2002. ...
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