The baked dashboard is cracked, the windshield peppered with rock chips. Crooked, yellow teeth, tobacco-stained fingers, nails chewed to the quick. He’s balding, with stringy black hair slick along the sides of his head. The driver is wearing a dirty T-shirt and faded jeans. Destination: Fort Lauderdale.Ī battered pickup truck pulls over, with rusted, mud-caked shovels in the back. Bill CosgraveĪlligator Alley slices through the prehistoric Everglades, a straight cut from the Gulf Coast to the Atlantic. He’s dying to know where her life has taken her and stunned by what he discovers. After years of futile searching, Bill finally tracks down the woman he had secretly loved. Beautiful Mary would set off on her own journey. Jim’s writing would morph into iconic hit songs, rocketing him to international fame as the hypnotic lead singer of the Doors. Bill and Jim spent endless days together, enjoying the aimlessness of their youth and the freedom of the times, fuelled by Jim's unlimited supply of dope. When Jim and Mary’s relationship faltered, Jim headed for Venice beach with his notebook. When he made it to her apartment in Los Angeles, Mary introduced Bill to her boyfriend, Jim Morrison. In the spring of 1965, Bill Cosgrave was smuggled across the border into the United States after receiving an irresistible invitation from his captivating friend Mary Werbelow. A riveting memoir that works its magic like a slow-acting drug, revealing the story of Jim Morrison’s first love, a long-lost friendship, and the man who existed before the Doors.
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