CHAPTER NINEDespite working long hours at the paper, Jesse’s personal life at 1114 West Wayne Street was becoming communal. Cheri lived downstairs in apartment number one. She was a Montessori teacher whose door was always open. Michael lived downstairs in number two. He was an abstract painter who loved to talk philosophy and Eastern religions. Upstairs, between Butch and Jesse, was Kay, a shy secretary who managed to hold her own when the house started rockin’.
Sweet Lucy lived in the bottom apartment of the carriage house out back. She was a single flower child who took care of the garden and worked at the downtown health food co-op. Sherman from the newspaper lived in the top unit, number seven. The two of them gathered with the others for regular front porch parties that attracted mu
