Of course, as Julie grows older, she becomes more and more the girl her dad wants. She cooks, she cleans, wears lipstick, women's perfume and her dad's sports hats. She dances the jitterbug with her closet doorknob and the radio. She gets very smart and learns to read early. What else would you expect from the daughter of an Encyclopedia Britannica salesman?
The fifties grow into the burgeoning Civil Rights movement: the Montgomery bus boycott and the rise of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. The schools are gradually desegregating. Julie is home alone after school many days while Vince is at work. Since Vince got a television to follow the developments of the protests daily, he allows Julie's friends to come over and watch too and also eat snacks as long as Julie prepares some dinner for him as best she can, being still mildly short. She will be entering third grade in the fall. They rented a house in Brighton, Massachusetts and a rendition of their backyard is in our background. This is Julie's kingdom and playground.
Things begin to happen with the cocaine deliveries, and Julie is in the middle of it this time...
Vince wants to work indoors and is tired of the heavy New England winters & the new harassment by the local mobsters. He sells the Studebaker and buys a sharp red and white Chevy Bel Aire, deciding to drive to Chicago and get an indoor job with Sears Catalog.