While getting material together for my book on the first quarter century (mixing parodies with stories), I found some old communications from a fellow who lives on the next block named John Ekizian, whom I dated in the 1980s and who was in Skip's BMI class around 1999-2000. I found a letter that John had claimed he sent to the police (the police had no record of getting the letter) which started by saying that I kept calling him in fall 2021 even though he had blocked my number, which of course made no sense, since how was I calling him if he had blocked me. But he also brought up some issues he claimed to have had about Skip in BMI class back in 1999-2000, even though we'd run into him on the street so many times over the two decades after that. And from what I can see from when John and I dated in the 1980s, it was a lovely time that just ended very amicably.
There are of course people who dislike me for some reason or other (some having to do with family money), but have no problem whatsoever with Skip. There are people who might dislike Skip (like some who had work issues or blame him for their not going on to the 3rd year at BMI), but have no issue whatsoever with me. There are only two people I know of in the entire world who have a dislike for both Skip and me, and John Ekizian is one of them. It's been very interesting looking back at this quarter century, but also perplexing. I wonder if I should just let the book be the parodies only and drop the narrative.