It's 1972 and as usual I was a combination of stoned and drunk
and I was
in Boston in these big towers where our dorm was.
So my friends are having a party.
I had been studying with my friends and we really couldn't focus, so that's when I went over.
What did I say when I came in? Was I rude or was I, like, nice?
You just said, like, a
"Hey could you guys keep it down? I'm trying to study, I'm trying to sleep or whatever."
And I just remember thinking
That's, like, really, she looks like, really weird.
She was tall. She was a little gawky.
She hadn't really fully formed yet and she had this giant
like oran-- frozen oranges can, on top of her head
with her hair wrapped around it.
Like a curler.
Two of them, everyone did that back then.
Somehow, I'm said to myself, um
Wow!
Like, what a babe!
And I had, like, this instant crush on her.
I didn't see her again for about a month.
It was Halloween.
But, I do remember passing some stand and thinking
"I'm going to get these pumpkins and bring them to the girl that I met a month ago."
So, it was actually very well, very well thought out.
And I'm sure I was carrying my guitar with me.
Because I carried it everywhere.
Just as a point.
As I was walking to bring the pumpkins to share, I was very excited.
It was like three o'clock in the morning.
I wasn't at my best I was a little rough.
I was hoping this was gonna fucking work?
I opened the door and it was just adorable.
And he was clearly stoned.
So I said "I have, um, many pumpkins."
I don't think I knew her name at that point.
I remember this as clear as day.
He said "I have many, many pumpkins for Shera."
And there were three pumpkins.
It was this expression of such, like,
I have brought this to you. I have gone far and brought you these amazing gifts.
I felt very, like, kind of giddy and, like,
he likes me.
But it's interesting how--
How from, how that night then became a friendship.
Where it really should've become dating or a girlfriend.
This was this brief period, 'cause I was dating these two other guys briefly.
I was actually, um, jealous of them
Well, first they were, um,
really lowlifes.
The first guy was a really small hobbit-like guy.
And all we ever did was make out.
Except, that he was so tiny he sat on my lap when we made out.
Well, Ed, Ed was just, like, the greasiest guy.
And I don't mean just as a, as a, as a term, he was literally greasy.
I mean, there was grease, like, dripping off of him.
And if I remember correctly, he had asked mom to shoplift.
"Just Put It In Your Purse"
Yeah, the feeling was
"Why wouldn't she be with me, when she was with these guys?"
I was like, you know, pretty good.
During this friendship of this year
Rick, carried his guitar everywhere literally.
But he would play guitar for me at night.
- And he- - Was I good?
I'm sorry. I just burst out laughing.
I always say one of the reasons I fell in love with him
is just he played this fabulous sort of Southern Blues
and it was really soulful and very sexy and I just thought he was
extremely cool.
What was the name of the devil song?
Say No To The Devil
♪ Say no to the devil ♪
♪ Say no ♪
♪ Well Devil is just a deceiver now he don't do nobody right ♪
♪ Say no to the devil ♪
♪ Say no ♪
But, but, the point of it is, is we were, we became very good friends
all through our freshman year.
Europe
You had gone to Europe with your friends for the summer and I started to realize.
Oh my God! I really am missing Ricky.
I, I love this guy, this is not, he's not just my best friend, but, like,
this is more and we wrote letters
I don't remember letters.
But I came back from Europe.
And mom said to me in a really stuttering kind of way
"Uh, uh, I, uh,
I think I love you."
And I remember going "I can't deal with this."
And literally left the room.
And walked around the halls a few times.
I was, I was like hyperventilating.
We obviously had missed a step.
The step is - dating getting to know somebody.
Spending a lot of time with them.
Somebody saying the L-word at some point.
You know, Shera kind of,um, said that before we even went through that.
And then I seem to remember I came in and said
"You know, um," I stuttered a little bit.
And I said "I think a lot, like, I think, uh, I guess, um, uh, yeah, yeah, I guess I love you too."
♪ When we first met ♪
We had never kissed. So, we ,literally, that evening we--
We kissed for the first time.
He was just,
I don't know, he felt like my heart.
Crushes where you literally feel like every time you see the person.
Your heart is, like, totally passing out.
It's like being in a haze.
That's maybe why the world crush, 'cause you do feel crushed.
And how many people really have a crush?
And then that, ends up being the real relationship.
Which we did. So and that does happen.
Crushes turn into pumpkins and then it turns into love.
It does.
Sometimes.