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Part One3

It is a cold dark and dreary wet day somewhere in Oregon. In Portland, Oregon, USA. In Couch Park, North Portland.4

It is a NOIR day for Our Hiro. He is a young oldster of 22 years old. He is strolling from his office, a 20x30-storage unit near the park between Powell's BookStore and Cinema 21. He has just come from a clandestine meeting in Cinema 21. They were watching 'To Kill a Mocking Bird' and 'The Maltese Falcon' and 'Paranoid Park'. He is meeting his gay guy friend, a skateboarder, who he meets secretly. Not that he is gay himself. It's not that he has anything against same-sex attraction. He has known about that all of his life, at least since he went swimming naked with his friend Dill when they were just in their teens. Coming back by Couch Park, known as Crutch Park by the skateboarders and Crotch Park by the gays, because you always ended up one or the other, depending upon how you used it. Out of the corner of his eye, just over his shoulder and between his sideways ball cap, he sees a bunch of toughs, gay bashers, headed for his friend Dill. He yells to Dill to run on and he stays back to bust up the gay busters with Dill's long skateboard. A fight ensues. Hiro is black belt in martial arts. He takes out the toughs. One buster remains on his feet. Our Hiro meets Yours Truly when she appears on her skateboard dressed in overalls and sideways ball cap. She is holding a small gun which she throws to Our Hiro. "Catch!" The gun goes off and buster falls dead. He is Dill, gay guy by day, my guy by night. "You hit him," says the girl. "I missed him," says the boy. "You hit him," says the girl. And so boy meets girl. Boy gets girl. Boy loses girl. ho-hum. Thus begins the sad tragic story of the romance of Our Hiro and Yours Truly. 5

Part Two6

Portland Noir7

Scene 1 Paranoid Park was just opening its showing at Cinema 21. It was a story about a skateboard park in North Portland where a boy and girl meet after a grisly murder. He is a boy with inner conflicts who meets a nice girl who encourages him to write his story. This is his story about overcoming.8

Scene 2 Somewhere in Oregon, Mt. Angel, a catholic monastery build after the style of a Swiss monastery. A picture appears above it. This is the doppel-gang-er or double mirror, that portends trouble, disaster and death. She hovers over the scene like a symbol of doom, dark, crime, noir, screenplay. Portent. Not black-and-white, but doppel gray. She is Yours Truly, Y.T., in the flesh. By day in overalls, an old youngster of fifteen years old like Scout Mockingbird, young, pristine, innocent, do-good. By night do-bad, she dresses black slit back dress, black funeral veil, peaches and cream complexion, and foundation over her freckles, soft southern drawl of speech.9

She hides her changes of clothing in the ceiling of a McDonald's restaurant Ladies room. She changes by night from Y.T. do-good on a pong-board to the Yours Truly in the black dress and veil, an old Young Lady of the night, a woman of dark secrets. Dill, a gay guy like me, is her secret guy friend. He is gay by day, not gay by night. She is not gay by day and gay by night.10

Scene 3 Y.T. in black dress and veil shows up at Our Hiro's storage unit, 20x30, one night. Our Hiro invites her come. He is dressed in loose shorts and weights on his angles from his workout. He changes to his business suit. He is a day and night detective working for clients who watch cheating men. Clothes do make the man. But she can see his body built through his sleeves. As she 'lets down her dress to her knees' a bit, he can smell the scent of jasmine over her silk, underdressed among her stresses and distresses. But this time she was paying him in two Franklin hundred dollar bills to find her man, Dill. See Our Hiro was a private dick by night and martial artist by day. She was hiring him to find who shot her man, Dill, dead with a gun that day.11

Scene 4 Boy meets Girl So here is the story line. Boy gets girl. Boy loses girl. It's a ho-hum story. She is the ho and he is the uh bum. It's dulls-ville. It takes a few more scenes to the fade out, if you know what I mean.12

Scenes 5-16 Eleven steamy love scenes.13

Scenes 17-19 He thinks they can be partners. She thinks so but not for his reasons. She makes him think he shot buster in the park. He does not think so. She knows so.14

Scene 20 Our Hiro puts Yours Truly in jail. So the story is Guy gets gay, a guy like me. Girl gets guy like Dill. Girl shot guy. Yum-yum. Y.T. is uh ho mum. The morality tale gets spicier and spicier. They are both yum-yum. Girl gets boy. Girl loses boy. Girl goes jail. Ho-ho. Ha-ha. Hey-hey. Woo-hoo!15

Scene 21 Sitting on the back of the bay Our Hiro looks back to where he did wrong. Could he have changed? Would he really be gay? Was his same-sex attraction really that bad? Maybe it was what saved him from her? What kind of partnership could it have been? Did he miss the buster? She said he hit him. That's the stuff dreams are made of.16