One Time in Paris

In the 1960s Wade Stevenson sought both escape and an elsewhere he could call his own. After a brief stint at the University of California at Berkeley he returned to New York only to have his own father commit him to a mental institution.<p>That committal turned out to be prophetic. One day he heard the plaintive notes of a flute somewhere nearby. A troubled teen named Cynthia was creating those wistful melodies.<p>Leaving both Cynthia and the asylum behind Wade worked on an oil tanker which took him to Le Havre France. There Wade began a journey of romance love and passion as his path fatefully crossed once again with Cynthia's.<p>Wade knew he and Cynthia shared a vision and a vital desire to guide their destinies. Their kindred spirits led them on extraordinary adventures. Together they explored their boundaries with sex love and drugs in their quest for spiritual freedom.<p>In this touching and intimate memoir Wade recounts the Paris he knew with its sensuality and light love and art-but also an ultimate loss. Like many before him Wade immersed himself in love only to realize that the woman of his heart could never belong to him.