The Year that Didn't Exist

<p style='margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:16px;font-family:Times New Romanserif;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:8.0pt;text-align:justify;background:white;'><span style='font-family:Calibrisans-serif;color:black;'>Walter's freshman year at a top Engineering School wasn't what he had hoped for. Academic success was a given but wasn't college supposed to be about freedom drugs and wild sex? This was 1969 after all. But as Walter laments freshman year was just OK I somehow missed out on that sex thing.</span></p><p style='margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:16px;font-family:Times New Romanserif;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:8.0pt;text-align:justify;background:white;'><span style='font-family:Calibrisans-serif;color:black;'>Walter was hoping sophomore year will be his MVP season. Regrettably it wasn't it was a nothing in fact it was <em><span style='font-family:Calibrisans-serif;'>The Year that Didn't Exist</span></em>. The story opens with Walter's big mistake: securing off-campus housing with two roommates he finds intolerable. One chapter details his accidental meeting and getting stoned with Jane and Tom H. They activist-celebrities on their way to a Vietnam protest rally at the Tute Tom being the keynote speaker.</span></p><p style='margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:16px;font-family:Times New Romanserif;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:8.0pt;text-align:justify;background:white;'><span style='font-family:Calibrisans-serif;color:black;'>Several chapters are devoted to his introduction and obsession with recreational drugs pot hashish LSD and Ludes. How he meets his first girlfriend the result of a bet as to who would score better on a biology test is thoroughly but not graphically detailed. And finally the only real highlight of his meaningless year teaming up with drug buddy Strappa and winning a collegiate bowling championship provides a humorous ending to the saga. <em><span style='font-family:Calibrisans-serif;'>The Year that Didn't Exist </span></em>should strike chords that ring true in almost everyone and hopefully transport the reader back to their college days days perhaps simpler and likely filled with unbound optimism.</span></p><p style='margin:0cm;font-size:15px;font-family:Grotesque Lightsans-serif;margin-bottom:8.0pt;'><span style='font-size:16px;font-family:Calibrisans-serif;'> </span></p>