title: Cured: The Tale of Two Imaginary Boys
author:  Lol Tolhurst 
description: "A remarkably moving redemption narrative"--<i><b>Pitchfork</b></i><br /><br /><br />"Fascinating"--<i><b>Billboard</b></i><br /><br />"[<i>Cured</i>] is a tale about friendship, chaos, and redemption in the face of fame."--<b>ABC News</b><br /><br /><br />"[Tolhurst] is...an unsparing narrator."--<b>Salon.com</b><br /><br /><br />"Compulsively readable... A fascinating chronicle not only of one man's disintegration and renewal, not only of two boys' unique friendship, but also of an incredibly important era in music."--<b>Yahoo! Music</b><br />
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  THREE IMAGINARY BOYS
  
  J.T. HOLDEN
  
  A KURO BOOK
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Text copyright © 2015 by J.T. Holden
  
  All rights reserved. Except as permitted under the U.S. Copyright Act of 1976,
  no part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in
  any form or by any means, or stored in a retrieval system, without prior
  written permission from the publisher.
  
  This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents
  either are the product of the author’s imagination, or are used fictitiously,
  and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business
  establishments, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
  
  First Digital Edition
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  To Baumer & Hasney
  
  for inspiring the story
  
  To Marilyn
  
  for inspiring the storyteller
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Deep inside
  
  The empty feeling
  
  All the night time leaves me
  
  Three imaginary boys
  
  — The Cure
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  CONTENTS
  
  [ACT ONE](index_split_005.html#filepos3176)
  
  IN THE BEDROOM
  
  [ACT TWO](index_split_006.html#filepos68867