cleopatra, Madame Bovary, Lois Lane--a few faces in the crowd of girl-
friends limned by men through the centuries. Compare this horde with
the handful of boyfriends described by women. A permanent vacancy sign
hangs outside the boyfriend pantheon. Inside, empty niches and echoes.
Women have always told stories about their lovers, but their narratives were
dismissed as chat, or worse yet, gossip.
We mourn the many stories that, left unwritten, were forgotten and died.
"The lOOth Boyfriend" is dedicated to this aborted prose, and the hope that
other stories can be saved from extinction.
Working from written and taped accounts, long distance phone calls,
overheard conversations, lost letters, dreams and stolen diaries, we gathered
the stories women tell about their lovers.
All of these stories are true; all of them are anonymous. Names have been
changed to protect both the writers and their subjects. Transcripts have been
edited and synthesized, yet in each story, we have striven to maintain the tone
and mood of the original account, at times feeling ourselves to be instruments
of some collective girlfriend unconscious.
We thank the men who allowed their photographs to be used. Readers of
"The lOOth Boyfriend" should not look for any connection between stories
and snapshots; there isn t one. They are simply there. Slices of life. Men as
objects of the feminine gaze. Or simply: artifacts of romantic memory.
Most of all, we thank the grandmothers, sisters, friends, and strangers who
stepped forward with stories. This book is a panegyric to their adventures.
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