Short summary of the story "With the Beatles" from the book, First Person Singular.

In “With the Beatles,” an unnamed narrator recalls seeing a girl in the hallway of his high school clutching a Beatles record to her chest. This image stayed with the narrator for years as a symbol of desire and yearning. Shortly after seeing the girl in the hallway, the narrator got his first girlfriend, who was called Sayoko. One day, he went to Sayoko's house to meet her for a date but she was not home. He spent the afternoon talking to her brother, who was suffering from a genetic condition that affected his memory. Eighteen years later he ran into Sayoko's brother in Tokyo. Sayoko's brother told him that Sayoko had died by suicide, and both men contemplated how little they had known or understood her.