It Happened in Riverdale, Book 4
After Allen and Julie’s first breakup in the summer of 1961, they “wasted” an entire school year making each other miserable, as evidenced by the esoteric short stories Julie wrote during that time. They got back together in the summer of 1962 for a brief time. Then Allen went away to boarding school while Julie stayed at Highview Academy. Their “long-distance relationship” worked—sort of—until the spring of 1963.
The setting is a Christian youth gathering in Beach City in April 1963 where Allen and Julie break up for the second time. During this special weekend, Julie meets the “marvelous” Bill Johnson who becomes a good friend, but never quite a boyfriend, though she always wished he would be.
DEDICATION
To the Beach City Youth Congress
of April 1963
- What’s the Good of My Caring?
- Snow-Fire
- The Blue Letter
- So Short Was the Summer
- Why Men Don’t Write
- Beach City Arrival
- Preparation Day
- Searching to Find
- Litany
- The Real Breakup
- After the Tears
- Goodbye, Dear Allen—Goodbye
- Looking Ahead
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