This is a fiction work that was inspired totally by
accident, when I won a diary on Ebay, penned in 1923, by a young woman. The
diary of 365 pages, 1923, was fully handwritten, but the woman was only known as
Lolita. I knew there was a story there somewhere, but more importantly I was
drawn into the time, the young woman, the love interest she had throughout the
year.
I was CONSUMED
with finding out who and whatever happened to this Lolita from Hagerstown Md. I
took me years to find out who she was, that she married the love interest, and
when she passed on.
SO, for my 9th
book I wrote a fiction novel, Defying Death In Hagerstown, based on a character
from Hagerstown, named Lolita.
We have a young
Washington, newspaper reporter, who is rapidly self- destructing, after a bad
breakup with his Fiancée, who left him for a young doctor. He's drinking, a real
mess at work, and ready to be fired. His last chance assignment is to go to
Hagerstown, Md. and interview a centenarian
wonder woman of 110 years old, named Lolita, who resides in a Hagerstown nursing
home.
All the
reporter complains about is that this is an assignment from hell, and this woman
is probably senile.
We later find
out that Lolita is sharp as a tack, and the most philosophical person to come
around in many years, someone everyone flocks to for life changing
advise.
The reporter
also learns that there exists a diary from 1923, a full years, handwritten out,
that gives a real insight to what life was like for the old
woman.
But he further
learns that Lolita, in 1923, lived through a mass murder spree of 3 of her young
girlfriends in Hagerstown that still was unsolved. The reporter sees a real
story in the murders, and is consumed with investigating and solving this 90
year old mystery. But someone in Hagerstown is rattled by his nosing around, and
bullets fly, and someone is killed.
The old diary
comes into play again as the reporter tries to stay alive long enough to save
his job, solve the mass murders, right a wrong, and fall deeper in love with the
beautiful gray eyed Felicia, the nurse that tends to Lolita.
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