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Victoria (“Vix”) is a shy yet smart girl from the wrong side of the tracks. Caitlin is wealthy, stunningly beautiful, wild, and, of course, troubled. They meet in the late 1970s at age 12, and Caitlin invites Vix into her spacious house and luxurious life in Martha’s Vineyard, worlds away from the squalid trailer in New Mexico that Vix calls home...
Caitlin and Vix become instant friends, signing a “Never Be Ordinary” pact, and thus ensuring from the start that the book will never be boring. They go back each summer to the Vineyard, where Caitlin strings Vix along. Caitlin is manipulative, but ultimately she needs Vix as a rock to ground her own manic moods. For Vix, Caitlin is like a drug; dangerous yet incredibly tempting, one snort and Vix is hooked yet again...
...instant obsession of the girls. Caitlin and Vix start off experimenting with one another, move on to having sex with two handsome local boys in later summers, and finally, competing for the same man’s attentions...
Investor boldness is rising too, a bad sign. Measured by the Chicago Board Options Exchange's Market Volatility Index, otherwise known as the VIX, the investing public is less fearful now than at virtually any other point over the past five years. Recently, the VIX stood at 16, down from 50 when the rally began in October 2002. The last time investors were this fearless was in August 2000. And margin loans--the OxyContin of day-trading junkies--are up 16% this year...
...twenty minutes ago, and for the first time, banjoist Bela Fleck approaches the microphone set up at the front of the stage. He and his Flecktones--bassist Victor Lamonte Wooten and Synth Axe Drumitarist Roy Wooten (also known as Future Man)--have just ripped through an amazing rendition of "Vix-9," the first song on the Flecktone's new album, Three Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest...