Their rendezvous soon turns into a courtship when Fay asks Dutch to stay and he gladly agrees. San Diego, where he’d entered the Marine Corps a few years before, is suddenly much more attractive—it’s Fay’s town. This is where he wants to stay.
Fay isn’t the hippie chick he had thought she was when they first met, but she does make everything seem easy…and with so much happiness and love. She questions his job choices and gives her parents crazy stories about him, but she loves this tall Texan.
A Vietnam veteran Marine and a California hippie fell in love. But their differences were too severe to make a go. On his way back to Texas he stops to see Fay in San Diego. Old fashioned herself, the flirtations they threw each others way from back in their Frankfurt, Germany days came out full throttle with the renewed relationship. It is a very refreshing happy story. Love mixed with respect for one another. Love had never been so easy and seemed natural. A happy story well written.