Summary

Paper Losses – Kit and Rafe, long-married, met at an anti-nuclear weapon rally decades before. All about peace and love years before, they are now at each other’s throats. Rafe’s hobbies – including building model rockets – have come to annoyed Kit, and she wonders where the handsome hippie she fell in love with has gone. She complains about it to her friend, Jan.

Rafe ultimately files for divorce, wanting to end their marriage on their anniversary. In a last-ditch attempt at saving the marriage, Kit, Rafe, and their three children leave Beersboro for a vacation in La Caribe. The vacation does not work, and Kit wonders if she and Rafe were ever really together at all.

Foes – Baker “Bake” McKurty and his wife, Suzy, are staying at a Bed and Breakfast in Georgetown while exploring Washington, D.C. and awaiting to attend...