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Autophagy: Cancer, Other Pathologies, Inflammation, Immunity, Infection, and Aging
1st Edition
Volume 3 - Role in Specific Diseases
- eBook ISBN 9780124055346
- Print ISBN 9780124055292
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Volume 3 - Role in Specific Diseases
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Understanding the importance and necessity of the role of autophagy in health and disease is vital for the studies of cancer, aging, neurodegeneration, immunology, and infectious diseases. Comprehensive and up-to-date, this book offers a valuable guide to these cellular processes whilst encouraging researchers to explore their potentially important connections.
Volume 3 explores the role of autophagy in specific diseases and developments, including: Crohn's Disease, Gaucher Disease, Huntington's Disease, HCV infection, osteoarthritis, and liver injury. A full section is devoted to in-depth exploration of autophagy in tumor development and cancer. Finally, the work explores the relationship between autophagy and apoptosis, with attention to the ways in which autophagy regulates apoptosis, and the ways in which autophagy has been explored in Lepidoptera, elucidating the use of larval midgut as a model for such exploration. From these well-developed foundations, researchers, translational scientists, and practitioners may work to better implement more effective therapies against some of the most devastating human diseases.
Volumes in the Series
Volume 1: Molecular Mechanisms. Elucidates autophagy's association with numerous biological processes, including cellular development and differentiation, cancer, immunity, infectious diseases, inflammation, maintenance of homeostasis, response to cellular stress, and degenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, Huntington's, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, and prion diseases.
Volume 2: Role in General Diseases. Describes the various aspects of the complex process of autophagy in a myriad of devastating human diseases, expanding from a discussion of essential autophagic functions into the role of autophagy in proteins, pathogens, immunity, and general diseases.
Volume 3: Role in Specific Dis
Abbreviations and Glossary
Autophagy: Volume 1–Contributions
Autophagy: Volume 2–Contributions
List of Contributions Projected in Volume 4
Chapter 1. Introduction to Autophagy: Cancer, Other Pathologies, Inflammation, Immunity, Infection and Aging, Volumes 1–4
Specific Functions of Autophagy (A Summary)
Autophagy in Normal Mammalian Cells
Major Types of Autophagies
Selective Autophagies
Autophagosome Formation
Autophagic Lysosome Reformation
Autophagic Proteins
Monitoring Autophagy
Reactive Oxygen Species (ROS)
Mammalian Target of Rapamycin
Role of Autophagy in Tumorigenesis and Cancer
Role of Autophagy in Immunity
Role of Autophagy in Viral Defense and Replication
Role of Autophagy in Intracellular Bacterial Infection
Role of Autophagy in Heart Disease
Role of Autophagy in Neurodegenerative Diseases
Cross-Talk between Autophagy and Apoptosis
Autophagy and Ubiquitination
Autophagy and Necroptosis
Mitochondrial Fusion and Fission
Part I: Molecular Mechanisms
Chapter 2. Autophagic Flux, Fusion Dynamics, and Cell Death
The Current Conception of Autophagic Flux and its Measurement
Putting a Number to Autophagic Flux
What is not Autophagic Flux: Pitfalls and Cautions
Flux, Fusion, and Trafficking Determine Autophagic Function
Fusion Affects Autophagic Flux
Trafficking Affects Autophagic Flux
Physics Modeling of Autophagy
Tuning Autophagic Flux: Driving Cellular Fate
Future Outlook
Chapter 3. Architecture of the Atg12–Atg5–Atg16 Complex and its Molecular Role in Autophagy


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Now the buzz is blowing up outside of the 215.By Collin Keefe
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Also, a purse for carrying boxed wine.By Jay Barmann
Get on the F or L train. Like, now.By Alyssa Shelasky
The 'GQ' critic wants some decorum back. And he has a point.By Alyssa Shelasky
Also, a restaurant in NYC has accused Richman of sexually harassing a waitress! He's having none of it.By Jay Barmann
The owners accuse him of harassing a server, and he goes ape.By Alan Sytsma
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The 'GQ' critic says the Bay Area is now the region to watch for restaurants of 'ambition and imagination.'By Jay Barmann
Do we sense another Summer of Riesling coming on?By Jenny MIller
How did the critic feel about appearing in a scene written by the man who called him a "douchebag," in the city that hates him?By Daniel Maurer
The 'GQ' critic defends his controversial pick for the best restaurant in America.By Alyssa Shelasky
The guy sure does love Lincoln.By Alan Sytsma
The yogurt giant makes claims it can't back up, while the software giant apparently had some great free lunches.
Look how far a little preopening kitchen schmoozing can go!By Daniel Maurer
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As an Army infantryman during the Vietnam conflict, Robert M. Notigan Sr. stepped on a mine in November 1967, only four months after landing in the country.
"He ended up in a Tokyo hospital," his wife, Diana, said in an interview, and then spent six months at Walter Reed hospital.
He returned to his job at a bank in Beverly, took night classes to earn his bachelor's degree in 1971 at what is now Rider University, and set off on a decades-long run as both a bank executive and a government official in Burlington County.
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Sid Meier's Civilization laid the foundation for hundreds of empire building turn based strategy games to come. Arguably the very first and most influential "just one more turn" game of all time.
Half Life set the standard for atmosphere in a first person shooter. In fact if you play it with the lights out the game is still a bit creepy even 10 years after its release.
Alpha Centauri too the turn based strategy genera a step further with modular units and a surprisingly dark and defined story. To some extent Alpha Centauri has yet to be trumped by any turn based strategy game.
Max Payne made the 3D action game fun again introducing a compelling story and the often copied bullet time mechanic.
Bionic Commando took a new approach to platforming that is still a blast to play today. The key to moving thru this game quickly is to develop a rhythm of extending your arm, retracting and releasing the grapple.
The first great 3D RTS combined both great gameplay and an outstanding story.
Super Mario Bros. 3 is arguably the best 2D platformer of all time. You get to jump around in a wind up sock (or shoe). Nuf ced.
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Living In Amida's Universal VowThough it has been in the West for over one hundred years, Pure Land and Shin Buddhism has been little known or understood among Western peoples. This book brings together a sampling of the resources available for the study of Shin Pure Land Buddhism through a variety of essays from important and influential journals, and so contributes to a greater understanding of Buddhism in general and this
A Buddhist Path of True Entrusting
Spiritual Masters: East and WestRenowned scholar of Shin Buddhism, Alfred Bloom, presents the life and spiritual legacy of Shinran Shonin, the influential religious reformer and founder of Pure Land Buddhism, the most popular school of Buddhism in Japan today. Bloom presents a wide selection of Shinran's essential writings on the key Shin Buddhist idea of "true entrusting" (shinjin) to the Other-Power of Amida Buddha through His
Living in Amida's Universal Vow: Essays in Shin BuddhismShin Buddhism arises from the teachings of Shinran, a profoundly compelling spiritual authority of 13th century Japan. Shinran taught men from all walks of life to find solace and strength in Amida Buddha, a compassionate aspect of the Cosmic Buddha who renounced his own enlightenment until all men could be saved through his power. The place of Shin Buddhism in the contemporary spectrum of
The Shin Buddhist Classical Tradition
A Reader in Pure Land TeachingThis second volume of passages gathered from the leading monks and teachers of the Pure Land, or Shin, school of Buddhist teaching focuses on religious practice. Extending from the foundational texts and first interpreters in the 4th century, to Rennyo in the 15th century, Professor Bloom's selections trace the development of Shin Buddhist teaching from monastic visualization practices to the
The Shin Buddhist Classical Tradition
A Reader in Pure Land TeachingThis book is an anthology of passages gathered from the leading monks and teachers of the Pure Land, or Shin, school of Buddhist teaching. Extending from the foundational texts and first interpreters in the 4th century, to Rennyo in the15th century, Professor Bloom's selections trace the development of Shin Buddhist teaching from monastic visualization practices to the widely popular path to
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Everything I Needed to Know About Being a Girl I Learned from Judy Blumeby Jennifer OConnell, Meg Cabot, Beth Kendrick, Julie Kenner, Cara Lockwood
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"I wonder if Judy Blume really knows how many girls' lives she affected. I wonder if she knows that at least one of her books made a grown woman finally feel like she'd been a normal girl all along. . . ."
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Everything I Needed to Know About Being a Girl I Learned from
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Whether laughing to tears reading Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great or clamoring for more unmistakable "me too!" moments in Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret, girls all over the world have been touched by Judy Blume's poignant coming-of-age stories. Now, in this anthology of essays, twenty-four notable female authors write straight from the heart about the unforgettable novels that left an indelible mark on their childhoods and still influence them today. After growing up from Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing into Smart Women, these writers pay tribute, through their reflections and most cherished memories, to one of the most beloved authors of all time.
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This collection of 24 essays edited by O'Connell (Plan B) pays tribute to the influence of Judy Blume and her work about coming-of-age as a girl in America. In each piece, the writer reveals what O'Connell calls her "Judy Blume moment," telling a heartfelt and revealing story that reflects the same social awkwardness and true-to-life experiences Blume conveys in her novels, from menstruation to childhood bullying to masturbation. In "Cry, Linda, Cry," Meg Cabot recalls how Blume's book Blubbertaught her how to laugh at herself, while also giving her the courage to stand up to schoolgirl bullies. Likewise, Stephanie Lessing, in "The One That Got Away," reflects on Blume's It's Not the End of the World, explaining the solace she found in its understanding of what it's like when parents divorce. Readers who similarly found solace and support in Blume's work should relate easily to these writers through the Blumian characters and themes they evoke. Writing in the spirit of Blume, these women present their experiences as a series of personal truths: "girl moments. Woman moments, Human moments." (June)Copyright 2007 Reed Business Information
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You can't blame Mrs. Henderson for giving her daughter a copy of Forever on her eleventh birthday. Like all of us in Girl Scout Troop 196, Kim was a die-hard Judy Blume fan. Of course, I prided myself on being the most avid admirer of all, the only one in our troop to have read every Judy Blume book available in the Bayville Elementary School library, from Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret to Then Again, Maybe I Won't. So as I watched Kim tear open the Smurf wrapping paper to reveal a previously unheard-of novel by my favorite author one that promised a timeless teenage love story on its cover I became instantly and insanely jealous.
And that was before I learned that Forever was The Sex Book.
This discovery didn't take long, as I had taken it upon myself to "hold on" to the book as Kim opened up other gifts. I feigned interest in her new Duran Duran cassette, the assortment of rainbow ribbon barrettes, even the Cabbage Patch doll named Annalisa Marie. My fascination with the book and disinterest in the birthday loot deepened, until I was finally able to usher Kim and the rest of the guests upstairs to her bedroom.
"Listen to this," I whispered as I went on to read the book's notorious first sentence, about a girl genius named Sybil who had "been laid by at least six different guys." Been laid! In the first sentence! Could this be the same Judy Blume I knew and loved? I wondered what was more stunning: The sex or its source? It was a far cry from the bust enhancement exercises in Margaret or even the wet dreams in...Maybe I Won't.
With the provocative opening as incentive, Kim, the other girls, and I bounced up and down on the frilly pink canopy bed, each taking turns skimming through the book, trying to outdo each other with the discovery of another dirty passage. Page 20: Michael tried to unhook Katherine's bra. Page 25: Michael felt her up under her sweater, then fumbled on the snap of her jeans. Page 40: Katherine's eleven-year-old sister accused her of "fucking" Michael in her bedroom!
Our fingers flew over page after page, only stopping when we hit a word such as "sex," "sexy," "moans," "penis," "sex," or "sex." Not surprisingly, we gave ourselves away. Mrs. Henderson alerted by our eardrum-cracking shrieks came through Kim's door, demanding to know the source of our hysterics. Mrs. Henderson was a divorcée, the neighborhood Avon lady, and our acting troop leader. She favored pearly pink lipstick, acid-washed jeans, and brassy hair teased to Jersey perfection a combination of artistry and products that I admired and never mastered. We all loved Mrs. Henderson and copped to the book's carnal content just as quickly as she removed it from Kim's clutches. She must have known that Troop 196 viewed her as being more hip and progressive than the other moms, so rather than merely banning Forever from our fourth-grade social circle, Mrs. Henderson told all our mothers that she would be happy to lend it to anyone in the troop, if they gave written parental permission.
My mother, of course, flatly refused. Though she didn't seem that different from Mrs. Henderson on the outside she, too, wore jeans and rarely left the house without applying mascara or "hot rollering" her highlighted blonde hair she was, at heart, the result of sixteen years of Catholic education.
"Mooooooooom," I whined as she prepared that night's dinner, something involving red meat and a few token vegetables in a crock pot. "Why can't I read it?"
"It's not appropriate for a ten-year-old," she replied without looking away from the flesh on the cutting board.
"I'm almost eleven!" My birthday was, in fact, a week after Kim's.
"It's not appropriate for an eleven-year-old!" she said, slicing down the blade. "I'm not sure it's appropriate for anyone at all!"
"Megan Beth, if you want to know about..." She hesitated here, waving her knife in the air. "That sort of thing...you should ask me."
This was a horrifying and altogether impossible proposition. Who wanted to talk to her mom about that sort of thing? But my mother had invoked my middle name, so I knew better than to continue my fight. Fortunately, all my years as a precocious book lover had paid off. Reading comprehension was my strong suit, so even though I'd only skimmed the book, I got the gist of the whole plot: Katherine and Michael were seniors in high school. They met. They fell in love. And they had sex.
Some crucial details I committed to memory and could still recall twenty-one years later:
1. Michael named his penis Ralph (page 73).
2. Michael "came" too soon, before they got a chance to do it (page 100. I had only the vaguest idea what that meant. Something came out of him? Like pee? And why would that stop them from doing it?)
3. Michael devirginized Katherine on a multicolored rug because her blood could have stained the bedsheets (page 101).
After Kim's sleepover, Forever turned into a game I played alone in my bedroom. Katherine (my Brooke Shields doll) made love with Michael (Ken) in an empty tissue-box bed. Pre-Forever, making love had meant sleeping in a bed naked with someone. Very little effort involved. Post-Forever, I pretended that Ralph was hidden inside Brooke-as-Katherine. Of course, Ken-as-Michael didn't have a penis, and his anatomical incorrectness suited my fantasies just fine. I still wasn't sure what a penis looked like, having only glimpsed at my baby brother's teeny unit as my mother changed his diaper, but I was simultaneously enthralled and repelled by the idea of seeing one. My nascent pangs of lust left me confused and queasy, similar to the nausea I felt whenever I tried to read a book in the backseat of a moving car.
Later that spring, Troop 196 earned points toward community service badges by cleaning up a local beach. After a heated argument in Mrs. Henderson's minivan over one pop star's supremacy (Cyndi Lauper vs. Madonna was a popular debate at the time, and I was always in the minority opinion), the other girls piled out of the van together singing "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun" louder than necessary as I stomped off to a more secluded area to work by myself. I stuffed my trash bag in defiance, silently mouthing the lyrics to my favorite song. Like a virgin. (Hee!) Touched for the very first time...
It was almost time to head back when I discovered a tattered copy of Playgirl hidden among the bottle caps and cigarette butts in the dune grass. The centerfold was miraculously intact. The model was in full-on hair-band mode, wearing a black leather studded jacket and nothing else. He was posed in front of a microphone, head thrown back, eyes shut tight as if he were belting out a power ballad...or on the verge of splooging all over the stage. His ginormous penis was obviously impressed with the performance, as it was in the throes of a standing ovation.
Even at eleven years old, this whole setup struck me as absurd. I mean, what would possess this guy to perform in a leather jacket and no pants? Duh. It made me wonder how Katherine could possibly look at Ralph-the-Penis without cracking up. How could she get hot and bothered by the idea of that...that...thing poking around inside her? It made no sense.
As unsexy as it was, I had no doubt that my fellow Scouts would take a prurient interest in the centerfold. My find could catapult me into popularity, if only for the rest of the afternoon. But I also knew if Mrs. Henderson found out and told my mom, the possession of pornographic materials would surely lead to a major grounding. My parents would be appalled, but my peers would be impressed. It was the virgin/whore, Cyndi/Madonna conundrum, and in this case, the good girl in me won out. I stuffed the Playgirl pages deep in my trash bag and didn't say another word about them.
Not long after that mystifying first introduction to the male genitalia, my mom took it upon herself to educate me in that sort of thing. She brought me across the street to my best friend Adrienne's house, which to this day remains the most orderly and pristine place I have ever visited. If Adrienne or her mom ever wore jeans, they were of the starched-stiff, high-waisted variety that could be subcategorized as slacks within the taxonomy of denim. We sat on the plump couch. Me, slumped and skeptical. Adrienne, respectful and ramrod straight like the ballet dancer she was. Together, in their darkened, dust-free family room, we watched a very special filmstrip borrowed from the middle school health class I would take two years later.
The mere mention of the word "filmstrip" hopelessly dates me, I know. As a brief primer for those who have come of age in the digital era, a filmstrip entertained and informed one boring picture at a time, with a breathy narrator on a cassette tape going on at length about the subject represented by each still frame. When the anonymous speaker finished her oration, the cassette would signal the need to manually forward the reel to the next boring picture with a mechanical-sounding BOOOOOP!
A diagram of the female reproductive system. BOOOOOP! A bottle of douche with a red slash warning that it is not a valid method of birth control. BOOOOOP! A grinning girl running rapturously through a field of wildflowers feeling so free and April fresh...ummm...because she has just used the douche for nonbirth-control purposes? BOOOOOP! This last image was particularly striking. I had just branched out of the Blume canon to read Go Ask Alice, and it seemed more likely to me that this girl was having some sort of acid freak-out and was not, as the voice-over implied, simply carried away by the joys of reproductive maturation.
It was this primitive form of audiovisual infotainment that taught me all about the 3 P's: Puberty, Periods, and Pregnancy. I'd go through Puberty, get my Period, and if I wasn't careful I'd get Pregnant and ruin the rest of my life. One P conspicuously deemphasized was Penis, which was discussed in the most clinical manner and only in regard to how it could be used to get me P for Pregnant and (repeat it with me) ruin the rest of my life. I remember thinking how much more interesting the lesson would have been if the filmstrip had been an actual movie starring Brooke Shields with a soundtrack by Michael Jackson. Yet it had the desired effect on my best friend. Adrienne had six years of Catholic school education behind her and couldn't wait to make a vow of lifelong chastity.
"I'm never going to have sex," she proudly declared to her mom.
And I thought, That's because you didn't read the good parts in Forever.
Over time, Forever lost its hold on me as the dominant inspiration behind my sweatiest daydreams. As I left my (secular) elementary school behind, The Sex Book was replaced by more visual and visceral stimuli including (1) the T&A teen flick Private School, in which a rich red-haired temptress taunts Matthew Modine with a bouncy topless horseback ride; (2) the "Take My Breath Away" Top Gun tongue bath between Tom Cruise and Kelly McGillis; (3) any River Phoenix movie. At twelve, thirteen, and fourteen years old, these were the images that aroused confusing pit-of-my-belly longings for...for what exactly?
I figured I'd finally find out at fifteen, when I got my first serious boyfriend. B. was the first boy to kiss me. It took place in our school's parking lot right before the buses were about to pull away. A meaty proboscis pried open my puckered lips and proceeded to probe the rest of my face. His wet tongue roamed around, more outside my mouth than in, perhaps so that it could be easily viewed at a distance, thus putting an end to the hassling the basketball team was giving him to "French" me already. This inauspicious start might have served as a warning of letdowns to come.
Back then, I never could have imagined that those disappointments would serve me well and I would be lucky enough to make my living just as Judy Blume made hers, telling fictional stories about teenage girls struggling with the choices before them. And though I imagine our story is more common than not, when B. asked me out at fifteen, he had no idea that I would turn out to be a professional writer. Or perhaps he did. Either way, despite countless battles and breakups and get-back-togethers, B. turned out to be my only serious boyfriend in high school. Together, we fumbled through that first kiss and the other firsts that followed.
And none of it was his fault.
Not too long ago, I spotted a paperback copy of Forever at my local library. I hadn't picked it up since squealing over the good parts at Kim's sleepover two decades earlier. I couldn't help but notice that it hadn't been checked out in more than a year. No surprise there. In a discussion about influential authors, I'd once asked an audience of about a hundred high school students if they had read Forever, and only about a half-dozen hands went up. And these girls had read it only because they had been encouraged by their moms, for whom it had been an unforgettable rite of passage.
Yes, what my mom had once forbidden was now a source of mother/daughter bonding. When I shared this irony with my audience, they were dumbfounded. "What was so scandalous?" asked a particularly blunt sophomore. "Katherine didn't even give him a blow job." They were even more surprised when I told them that Forever remains one of the most banned books by parents and educators. Of course, these conflicting attitudes regarding teen sexuality are reinforced in the media, which depicts our nation's youth as being equally torn between public purity pledges and private rainbow parties.
I'm on the more liberal side of the ideological divide, so I picked up Forever that day in the library thinking it would be nothing more than a nostalgic hoot. A quaint throwback to the era of fondue parties, "queers," and VD. And yes, as I read it for the first time in its entirety, I chuckled at the seventies-style Public Service Announcements I had originally skipped over in favor of more salacious material. Like when Katherine's grandmother her grandmother! sent pamphlets from Planned Parenthood and encouraged her to go on the pill. Or when her mother wanted to have a heart-to-heart talk about a newspaper survey on the subject of sexual liberation. And when Katherine's acquaintance, Sybil the nympho genius from the infamous first sentence got pregnant because she made the most heinous error of all: sex without love.
And yet despite the infrequent lapses into corniness, Judy Blume's perspectives on teen sex were indeed more progressive than I had expected. Here was a seventeen-year-old female narrator who knew her desires were natural and didn't deny them to herself or her boyfriend. In an era when even pro-sex advocates focus more on Girls Gone Wild-style provocation than actual pleasure, Katherine's candor and unapologetic lust struck me as revolutionary. Specifically, here's what I had missed about Forever:
1. Katherine described losing her virginity as a "letdown."
2. Katherine "came." Without foreplay, from intercourse alone. Multiple times.
3. Katherine checked out Ralph-the-Penis not because Michael pressured her to but because she wanted to.
Now, all these years later, I realized getting up close and personal with the contents of my first boyfriend's tightie-whities had been totally out of the question. I know this sounds bizarre and it is but in three years of dating, I never so much as sneaked a peek, let alone studied B.'s penis with scientific interest. And yes, this means that I never performed that certain sexual act that the oh-so-jaded millennial sophomore took for granted. Never. Not before, during, or even after we did it. Which we did, after more than two years of dating, a few weeks after both of our seventeenth birthdays, on an overnight retreat for peer leaders at a religious campground. (Sorry, Mom and Dad.) While the actual act turned out to be less than what I'd hoped for, at least my devirginization at a faith-based gathering was steeped in irony.
I can identify with Katherine's anticlimactic deflowering. And yet while she was honest about how it was more of a relief to have it over and done with than anything else, I lied to myself (and one or two confidantes) by turning my first time into an exquisite body-and-soul transforming experience that it never was and wouldn't be until years later with the man I married.
It wasn't because I was inhibited by the classic virgin/whore dilemma or the threat of a bad reputation. And despite my filmstrip indoctrination, I wasn't worried about pregnancy (or STDs for that matter) because I was vigilant about protection. Nor was I still haunted by that first hilarious glimpse at Mr. Rock-n-Cock in Playgirl. No, it wasn't even the capital P for Penis that made me so uneasy about sex and my first love.
Katherine and Michael believed in the first-and-only vows of everlasting love. When the newspaper survey asked a question about how the relationship would end, Katherine was deeply offended by the query. B. would have been, too.
He told me many times that I was his female equal, and he was wrong. B. was far more popular than I was, and I took some comfort in my elevated status by association. He was good-natured and charismatic. He was as adept at being the sensitive guy who listened to girls' troubles as he was at engaging in grossed-out guy humor. I was moody, quick to judge, and used sarcasm to shield typical teenage insecurities. His body was amazing, with the carved-instone musculature of a natural athlete, and he had no shortage of girls who would have been more than happy to do anything for him in and out of bed. As for me, if any other guys in high school thought I was hot, I certainly never knew about it. These disparities might have been why we weren't considered for Class Couple in our high school yearbook. I wouldn't have even voted for us.
But I guess we were well matched in the sense that we were considered the male and female Most Likely to Succeed. We were both ambitious straight-A students, three-sport varsity athletes who rounded out our college applications with a long list of extracurriculars. Maybe this was enough for B. He was so convinced that I was The One that he repeatedly reminded me in furtive late-night phone confessions and in tightly folded notes he left for me in the pocket of his varsity jacket the one that he said I didn't wear often enough. But usually he'd gasp promises in my ear during frenzied sessions of making out (and more): We're meant to be together forever. Less often but often enough he told me if I ever broke up with him, he would kill himself. The vein in his forehead bulged, and my bicep turned white in his grip.
Before asking Michael to drop his pants so that she could examine Ralph-the-Penis, Katherine confessed, "I want to see everything...I want to know you inside out." The truth is, I didn't want to know B. inside out. In a way, the less I knew, the better. This emotional detachment was indistinguishable from my physical detachment when we were intimate, an odd not-really-there feeling that I needed in order to cope with this intense relationship for which I was not at all prepared yet couldn't bring myself to get out of. Unlike Katherine, I thought about how our relationship would end all the time. And it never went well.
So what makes Forever still relevant for me isn't the genius nymphomaniac, the famously personified penis, or any other dirty detail. It's what the novel says about love especially first love and how it dies.
Katherine bravely ended her first relationship because she wanted to experience physical and emotional passion with someone else. She was no doubt emboldened by the knowledge that someone else was already waiting for her in the form of Theo, the hunky tennis instructor she met during her summer away from Michael. "I thought of pretending," Katherine said after she reunited with her boyfriend and realized she wanted out. "I'm no good at pretending. And anyway, pretending isn't fair." I knew that, too. And yet the good girl in me pretended.
After six months with B., I pretended that I wasn't curious to kiss the cocky actor I met at a summer arts camp. After a year, I pretended that I wasn't intoxicated by the class lothario, a poet/addict who went out of his way to flirt with me in front of B. After two years, I pretended that I wasn't completely taken by a shy, smart sophomore who once dated B's younger sister. For nearly three years, I pretended that I saw a future for us because I was afraid of what would happen in the aftermath of our breakup. But I wasn't very good at faking it, either, and I spent the greater portion of my high school years acting like a bitch, blaming every frustrated attraction on too much PMS or not enough sleep. Why B. put up with this, especially with so many other options available, I'll never understand. Perhaps he was driven by the same fears of what would happen if he stopped.
I'm not sure when or how we broke up, and I would be making it up if I said otherwise. I remember a protracted series of dramatic fights and exhausting crying fits, of jealous flirtations and violent empty threats, and a failed attempt (his) at one last boozy fling for old time's sake. I went to my senior prom with B.'s best friend, an arrangement that indicates we split well before graduation. I cannot recall the final break, and this monumental event is mysteriously absent from the pages of my journal. But I don't think I've blocked out the details as a defense mechanism. I prefer to believe that I've let go of the most bitter memories because I didn't need to hang onto them.
Not too long after high school, I fell in love again. I had my heart broken. I later regretted not sleeping with someone I cared about deeply and then got involved with someone else who should have never been more than just a friend. I withheld empty promises of tomorrow. And finally, I made the only lifelong vow worth believing in.
I moved on. And B. did, too.
I still can't help but wish my mom had let me read Forever from start to finish instead of showing me that lame filmstrip. By the last chapter, it's clear that Katherine and Michael got over each other. Their lost love wasn't a tragedy. It was inevitable. And if I had read more than just the good parts, maybe I would've mustered the courage to break up with B. sooner, sparing us both many tears and much pain in the process.
Then again, maybe not.
Probably not.
We were fifteen, sixteen, seventeen years old and had no clue what we were doing. We were each other's trial and error, as all first loves are. And I'm not convinced Judy Blume's wisdom would have helped one bit back then.
I was at the library to return the book my husband browsing down the shelves, our three-year-old son grabbing my hand when I realized that I'd never noticed the ellipses in the title: Forever... Only after a few decades of living, of loving and being loved in return, can you comprehend that Forever... means something very different than Forever. Only then can you understand that any vow uttered by an adoring adolescent is accompanied by invisible ellipses. "Forever...Then. Now."
Copyright © 2007 by Jennifer O'Connell
"Then. Now. Forever..." copyright © 2007 by Megan McCafferty
Meet the Author
Jennifer O'Connell received her BA from Smith College and her MBA from the University of Chicago. She is the author of Insider Dating, Bachelorette #1, Dress Rehearsal, Off the Record, and Plan B. Visit her website at www.jenniferoconnell.com.
Meg Cabot is the author of the #1 New York Times best-sellers All-American Girl and The Princess Diaries series, two of which have been made into major motion pictures by Disney. Meg is also the author of The Mediator series, the Airhead series, and many books for adults. She currently divides her time between Key West and New York City with her husband and one-eyed cat, Henrietta.
Beth Kendrick won the Romance Writers of America's Golden Heart Award for My Favorite Mistake. She has a Ph.D. in psychology and an unshakable devotion to the Chicago Cubs. After surviving too many Minnesota winters, she moved to Arizona, where she is working on her second novel (coming soon from Downtown Press). For more information you can visit the author's website at www.bethkendrick.com.
Julie Kenner's books have hit bestseller lists as varied as USA Today, Waldenbooks, Barnes & Noble, and Locus Magazine; have won numerous awards and have been lauded in industry publications such as Publisher's Weekly and Booksense. Julie writes a broad range of fiction, including sexy and quirky romances, young adult novels, chick lit suspense thrillers and paranormal mommy lit. Visit her online at http://www.juliekenner.com
Cara Lockwood is also the author of I Do (But I Don't), which was made into a Lifetime movie, as well as Pink Slip Party and Dixieland Sushi, and Every Demon Has His Day, all available from Downtown Press. She was born in Dallas, Texas, and earned a Bachelor's degree in English from the University of Pennsylvania. She has worked as a journalist in Austin, and is now married and living in Chicago. Her husband is not a rock star, but he does play the guitar poorly.
Laura Caldwell, a former trial lawyer, is currently a professor and Distinguished Scholar in Residence at Loyola University Chicago School of Law. She is the author of eleven novels and one non-fiction book. She is a nation-wide speaker and the founder of Life After Innocence, which helps innocent people begin their lives again after being wrongfully imprisoned. Laura has been published in thirteen languages and over twenty countries. To learn more, please visit www.lauracaldwell.com.
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Located just west of Interstate 35 on Business Highway 20, the Country Inn & Suites By Carlson®, Fort Dodge, IA provides affordable accommodation near several corporations and leisure attractions. You'll be pleasantly surprised to find two museums, the community college, and a slew of shops and restaurants less than four miles from our hotel. Guests participating in sporting events are a quick two miles from Dodger Stadium and five miles from the ball fields of Rogers Sports Complex. The Fort Dodge Regional Airport (FOD) is also just five miles northwest, making us a well-situated hotel for guests traveling by air. Along with a convenient location, the Country Inn & Suites offers quality amenities like a hot tub, fitness center and free high-speed Internet access to ensure a comfortable stay. We also invite you to the breakfast room each morning for a free hot and delicious breakfast of omelets, bacon, biscuits, unlimited gourmet coffee and more.
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The Chinese are sharing intelligence and equipment with the Pakistanis as the Pakistani Army prepares a final assault on the Talibans stronghold along the border with Afghanistan. Pakistan and China are teaming up to fight what government officials call a syndicate formed between the Taliban and Chinese Muslim separatists. Uighur separatists operate under Taliban protection maintaining training camps along the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan. In order to enhance Pakistans ability to police the border region, China offered to sell Pakistan $280 million in equipment. The only specifics divulged by Chinese officials are that the equipment will include vehicle and mobile scanners which will most likely be deployed to detect car bombs. The security equipment is bound for the Pakistani police as the government announced a plan to recruit 20,000 new officers in the capital.
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University of La Verne students gathered to raise awareness about sexual violence for Denim Day Thursday.
International performers compete at World of Dance
Dance crew Identity X's dedication shined during their performance, and so did the pain, sweat, and tears of every other dancer that graced the stage of the World of Dance tour.
Old Stump brews up fresh flavors
It started as a garage project and grew into a 12,000 square foot building on 2896 Metropolitan Place. This is the story of Old Stump Brewing Co., a family-owned and family-run business in Pomona.
Flames engulf Pomona building
The Los Angeles County Fire Department Arson Unit is investigating a fire that broke out Monday at a vacant single-story commercial building in Pomona.
Pomona art center showcases LGBTQ archive
Students in the Archiving as an Activism class at the University of La Verne helped construct the "The Body and the Archive" art exhibit in the Pomona dA Center for the Arts, which documented the representation of the lesbian and gay community.
Pomona book festival honors reading
The Pomona Reads book festival helped encourage reading as well as provide entertainment for all ages at the Pomona Civic Center Saturday.
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The San Gabriel Valley Mosquito and Vector Control District recently identified West Nile virus in mosquitoes and birds in several local cities.
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Rail passengers can challenge the amount of compensation they receive for delays and cancellations after strengthened rules to protect consumers took effect.
Rail passengers can challenge the amount of compensation they receive for delays and cancellations after strengthened rules to protect consumers took effect.
An "all-star team" of experts for the North of England should be formed to ensure the region gets the best deal possible from Brexit.
Monarch has been granted an extension on its licence to operate, the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) has said.
Theresa May will unveil plans to enshrine all European Union regulations that apply to Britain in domestic law when the country leaves the bloc at her first Conservative Party conference as Prime Minister.
US stocks climbed on Friday as banks made a rapid recovery following a steep fall a day ago.
Monarch has been granted an extension on its licence to operate, the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) has said.
UK stocks were on a rollercoaster ride on Friday amid speculation over investor confidence in German lender Deutsche Bank.
Fashion chain H&M said third-quarter profits suffered a triple blow from the strong dollar, increased markdowns and unseasonably hot weather.
Workers at Scottish ferry operator CalMac are to be urged by their union to accept a revised pay offer.
A 24-hour strike on Virgin Trains East Coast is to go ahead after talks failed to resolve a dispute over jobs and conditions.
One of Britain's largest car manufacturers has been urged to continue investing after it said delays in Brexit negotiations could have a negative impact.
Tesco is set to reveal its third consecutive quarter of rising sales next week as the supermarket continues its fight-back amid a fierce price war.
London companies will bear the brunt of the Government's business rates review, with the Square Mile and some of the capital's busiest shopping districts set to take the biggest hit.
Deutsche Bank shares staged a dramatic recovery on Friday afternoon after reports emerged that it could only have to stump up 5.4 billion US dollars (£4.1 billion), rather than 14 billion US dollars (£10.5 billion), as part of a US Department of Justice settlement.
Output in Britain's powerhouse services sector "grew strongly" in July, defying expectations of a substantial slowdown in the wake of the Brexit vote.
Royal Bank of Scotland has said it will complete the ring-fencing of its retail banking operations by the end of 2018.
Households are facing further increases in the cost of their insurance as a tax rate affecting millions of policies is increased this weekend.
Details have been announced of what will be included in a new garden city being built on the Thames Estuary to help deal with Britain's housing shortage.
Sadiq Khan has ordered an inquiry into the scale and impact of foreign investment in the London housing market amid fears over a potential "surge" in money flowing in from overseas.
John Lewis managing director Andy Street is to step down on October 28 after being chosen as the Conservative candidate for metropolitan mayor of the West Midlands.
More than a third of British businesses have seen their wage bills rise since the introduction of the new national living wage, according to new research.
Bank customers are still being left "exposed" after a series of IT failures at Britain's biggest lenders, a senior Conservative MP has warned.
Optimism among businesses about the UK economy has reached a post-EU referendum high, according to a report.
Foreign investments in UK firms through merger and acquisition (M&A) activity has plummeted following Britain's decision to quit the European Union, a new report has revealed.
Consumer confidence has rebounded to pre-Brexit levels as shoppers appear to shrug off fears about the economy, according to a monthly survey.
Information Commissioner Elizabeth Denham has called for businesses to be more honest with consumers and "lead the way" in building "a culture of data confidence" in the UK.
US stocks fell on Thursday as drug companies and banks absorbed large losses.
The managing director of department store chain John Lewis is set to step down after being chosen as the Conservative candidate for metropolitan mayor of the West Midlands.
London mayor Sadiq Khan has called a proposed hike in business rates "a real kick in the teeth" for the capital's companies.
Buy-to-let investors face having to inject much bigger amounts of cash into their properties due to changes to the market, an expert has warned.
Philip Hammond has confirmed the Government is closing its Help to Buy mortgage guarantee scheme in the latest of George Osborne's flagship policies to be abandoned by the new administration.
Commerzbank, Germany's second-biggest lender, is to axe nearly 10,000 jobs and halt dividend payments as it embarks on a major restructure of the business.
More than 16 million working age people across the country have less than £100 in savings available, research has found.
A company which has revived the British Steel brand has announced it is on track to return the business to profit in this financial year.
British Airways is scrapping free meals on short haul flights in economy class, instead offering a selection of Marks & Spencer salads and sandwiches.
Brexit could have huge ramifications for the UK's investment industry, which manages more than £1.2 trillion worth of assets, a new report has warned.
A former investment manager at BlackRock has been charged by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) with three counts of insider dealing.
Heathrow wants its cap on flights to be raised by almost 70 per day four years before a new runway would open.
Oil majors led the charge as the London market burst back through the 6,900 mark following investor cheer over an output-limiting deal struck by the Opec oil cartel.
The competition watchdog has launched a review of price comparison websites to investigate public awareness of how they earn their money and the level to which they actually benefit consumers.
Liam Fox and fellow senior Tories have insisted Britain can maintain free trade with the European Union and control over immigration after Brexit despite fresh warnings that it would be "impossible".
The housing market is showing signs of a post-referendum pick-up heading into autumn as it recovers from "paralysis" in the immediate aftermath of Britain's decision to quit the European Union.
The owner of the Daily Mail and The Mail on Sunday is axing 400 jobs as it battles against plungi ng advertising sales.
High street retailer Argos is to recruit more than 10,000 seasonal staff to work in its stores over the busy Christmas period.
Shares in o utsourcing giant Capita plunged 29% on Thursday after the company warned that full-year profits will take a hit from a slowdown in trading, partly linked to Britain's decision to quit the European Union.
Alton Towers owner Merlin Entertainments said it had "learned every lesson" from last year's Smiler rollercoaster crash as it revealed that visitor numbers were still being affected.
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Earl Hurd was born on September 14, 1880 in Kansas, USA. He is known for his work on Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937), Bobby Bumps Starts a Lodge (1916) and Bobby Bumps Starts for School (1917). He died on September 28, 1940 in Burbank, California, USA. See full bio »
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Local veteran wrote Morse code for the U.S. Army in WWII
Alvin Geiken honored for 70-year American Legion membership
Alvin Geiken was 20-years old when he left for U.S. Army basic training at Camp Wallace, TX, and was ordered to go to Coyne Electrical School in Chicago, IL, in 1943."I was at telephone school and had no interest in going to radio school," Geiken said. "Telephone school was complicated enough for me."
Regardless of his lack of interest, the Army sent Geiken to radio school in Chicago for 13 weeks.
"That's what the Army does," Geiken said. "It sends you where it wants you and you have no choice."
There, the 49 members of the class were taught international Morse code. To graduate from the course, Geiken said students had to code 16 words in a minute.
After graduation, he was sent to Kinder, LA, by mistake.
The mistake was corrected after a few days and Geiken was sent to serve in Hulen, TX, and remained there writing code throughout World War II.
Geiken, who is now 91, was never sent overseas.
"I didn't want to go over there," he said. "A lot of people went over there and never came back."
His tour of duty in the Army began in 1942, when Geiken was drafted and sworn into the Army in Omaha.
Fourteen days later, he was sent to Fort Leavenworth, KS, to complete an intelligence quotient (IQ) test.
After a few days at Fort Leavenworth, Geiken was ordered to complete basic training at Camp Wallace where he said soldiers were taught how to hold a gun and everything else that would keep them alive.
Geiken said he was also dubbed a "sharpshooter on the rifle range."
While in training, Geiken said soldiers had to complete a bayonet course hitting blocks and knocking them over to prove they could kill the enemy.
"I struck the block and it didn't fall," Geiken said. "My commander said if that was the enemy, I wouldn't have got him."
Geiken repeated the action and said he struck the block and snapped the stock of his gun.
In the remaining four weeks, Geiken went to telephone school where he strung some lines.
Following the war, Geiken returned to Gothenburg to help his father on the farm.
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