It was an ex-girlfriend and Patty, listening to Jaime's slightly embarrassed attempts to politely get the girl off the phone, became suddenly violently angry. They were on the freeway, Jaime driving, when his cell phone rang. It was during one of their weekend getaways. A promise he made terrifyingly real a few weeks later. Those secret wedding vows they exchanged on this San Francisco pier were as binding to Jaime as if they'd been made in a holy cathedral before God. MORRISON: To Jaime, Patty was a rainmaker, a magical person who could transform him from boy to man to husband, and his love, his obsession, was real, it was spiritual. I got to talk to Commander Riker and Data and Georgi La Forge. RAMOS: And to this day I honestly believe that I was on the Enterprise. MORRISON: And so, of course, Jaime did, too. RAMOS: I saw all the other young men and women there calling her mother, mom. One of Jaime's minders was a married middle-aged mother by the name of Patty Presba. Naturally such places require supervisors to watch over the young people, look out for them. A stretch in juvy, no job waiting on the outside, and it was ironically in the spirit of kindness that some well meaning soul directed Jaime up here, up here to the Sierra Nevada Mountains, where Jaime joined the California Conservation Corps, a work camp where a kid can grow and learn in the great outdoors. For now Jaime's life out in California's Mojave Desert was quite a mess. But then why would he? That would be like remembering something that hadn't happened. Jaime wasn't thinking about the part where the lover is set up to take the fall for a husband's murder. In this case the film noir thriller "Body Heat" in which a lover is wildly obsessed by his woman. It would happen a lot, like he was living in a movie. MORRISON: That's when he was overcome by the strangest feeling. RAMOS: And the last words I ever heard from her were, `Don't dare you say you know me, you psycho.'
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