Photo: Linda Laino This haibun first appeared in Life in 10 Minutes Blog, and was subsequently published in Nine Lives: A Life in 10 Minutes Anthology. He was the bad boy of my youth. Every woman had one didn’t she? The boy who exuded a certain sex appeal, who we felt certain was going to give us an adventure like we had never known. The one who would surely transfer that mysterious something onto our own lackluster personalities. Who by mere association we say to the world, “I am dangerous, I am dark, I am unpredictable.” We all seem to want to discover this shadow in ourselves when we are young. I fell in love with his hippie straight, white blonde hair-long, parted in the middle, his fair
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