GERARD CHRISTIAN ZACHER: OFFICIAL AUTOBIOGRAPHY SITE

"MY MEMOIRS" PAGE 6: PHOENIX
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                        MOVING TO PHOENIX

My stop in Chicago was very brief. It was just long enough to visit family and friends one last time and to gather some of my things and tie up lose ends. It was emotional, but needed to be done. This was what I had wanted - to wind up somewhere else (Well, it was Southern California I REALLY wanted to wind up in, but, for the time being, this WAS pretty close to it. It wouldn't take much to just go there from Phoenix when the time was right.) Once again, I found myself on a plane. Not that I was complaining in the least! I enjoy traveling by air. I often fly WITHOUT the aid of an airplane in my dreams, after all! During this flight, I realized that I had been on an airplane more times in the past few months than any other times in my life put together! I had flown from Chicago to Kentucky to get to Fort Knox. In the middle of Basic Training, I had traveled by plane from Kentucky to Chicago. Then from Chicago back to Kentucky when the break was over. Then, when Basic Training had finished, I had flown from Kentucky to Virginia to begin phase two of MOS training at Fort Lee. Then I had flown from Virginia back to Chicago when THAT had ended, and now I was flying from Chicago to Phoenix! But I didn't mind at all. I enjoyed all the traveling!

LIVING IN PHOENIX

Even though it was nearly late at night, I was very excited to arrive there! I had been really looking forward to this! A new place, yet another new adventure! And there were PALM TREES! J. met me at the airport. We talked about everything on the way to his place, and he went on and on about how good it would be for me to live there. And I was more than happy to be there, too. The next day, he took me around to meet all of his friends. It was very easy to lose track of how many people we had visited that day! Over the course of the next two weeks, he brought me everywhere and showed me everything. Being as thrilled as I had always been to experience new places and things, I soaked it all up!

Suddenly, though, things with J. began to change. We started not getting along in that small little space, and I began to feel uncomfortable there. (Years later, only a few years ago from now, we reconnected online, patched up our differences, and became friends again. He visited me here in Hollywood for a week, and it was nice to hang out again)

Meanwhile, I quickly found work through temp agencies. In my spare time, I joined a softball league. J.'s friends would attend, and I continued to get along with them just fine. A little bit later, I had landed a very fun job at the airport! I got to drive those little golf cart-like cars all around the airplanes and the runways!

                       A NEW PHOENIX FRIEND

Eventually, I moved out of J.'s apartment and in with some of my new friends. And I had only been there about a month! Within that very week, I got to know a grocery store cashier named Matthew. He was very tall, and thin. He was clean-cut, had medium brown hair, and often wore glasses that gave him a very studious look. He had an incredibly witty sense of humor. He was also quite literally, a genius. He and I had much in common, and we found this out very quickly. We were both writers, we both loved fantasy and science fiction (I do have loves of MANY types of literature and film, though), and more. We both had much experience as stage performers, and the list seemed to be endless. We thought of doing some stories together. Becoming distracted by many things around us later, we never got to finish them. We realized that we made a very good team in many creative things. In fact, we clicked together so well, that he asked me to move in immediately, and I accepted. We would wind up continuing to room with each other on and off throughout the next couple of years. We later decided to move to Las Vegas, and that takes us to the next page!

 
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