The girls of summer Right after the Fourth of July, a series of perfect days unrolled across San Diego County beaches. Sun sizzled away the coastal low clouds by no later than eleven, and girls …
James Gibson saw the police before they saw him, and his walk turned out to be a run — straight south from Imperial Beach to Mexico.
Posted December 4, 1986
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