But time never stops. The author slips up, her frame of reference fuzzing at the edges. Twenty-year old girls do not lose their virginity to Nat King Cole music. They did once. Mike laments that today is the world of the Uglies.
Uglies are young incomprehensible, different.
The corner suite at the Plaza belongs to someone else now. The Capitol Theater is now an office building. The Stork Club is Paley Park. That world is gone. You can only see it on the Late Show.