Washington Square Park. Morning. Gregory Melnick thinks about his parents, trading and dancing and tripping through Europe as he sits rather sluggishly under the shade of the arch, being misted on by the sewer water pumped through the foutain over and over and over and over . . . He is still: physically, not emotionally. He is a maladjusted 18 year old boy and he is overwhelmed completely by the city. He feigns a deep indifference but the fast cars, fast people, fast talkers and walkers, fast food, bright lights, big buildings, wide sidewalks and bright night-time skies, well, they stop his heart. But, henceforth, from the moment he meets her eyes, all the noise and nonsense and bullshit fades and the world hums in his ears. When she speaks, it feels like honey pouring out of every orifice. Katherine laughs a laughter heavy with something he can't place. Katherine talks, talks, talks about the day constantly -- remembering his shirt a little darker, his teeth a little straighter, his hands a bit cleaner. She falls in a shallow pool of love but Gregory, he remembers everything perfectly. He drowns in it.

And they grow and mutate, stretching and shrinking around each other. They explode into a disease of a marriage.

Katherine Sedgwick, Gregory Melnick and their many differences and violent disagreements give birth to a baby girl. She is a tiny little doll in Katherine's arms, surreal and porcelain-skinned. They name her Nicole Savannah; she becomes a disaster. She is everything but average in her childhood. Little Nico is a rowdy child whose feral screams, recess fights and smart-assed remarks (yes, even at the age of 8) annoy her teachers to no end but Gregory fawns over his baby girl, singing softly over her bed at night. This affectionate relationship is the only emotional connection that either Gregory or his daughter will ever have in either on their lifetimes, an unconditional and unmatched love that cracks and fizzles away. Gregory goes and splatters himself on the highway, bones and limbs and blood and brains stain the asphalt streets and Nico never recovers. She is ten years old and left with a socialite of a mother, draped in fur and bullshit who lazes around with young men and flutters her fake eyelashes. Nico is simultaneously heartbroken and relieved.

Her mother faded so swiftly into the background that Nicole barely mourned the lack of her presence. She lives in a constant dance with her mouth, around an empty house. Stepping in and out for dance, turning around hallways and closets, avoiding and spinning, spinning out the door for days. This is the most enlightening time in either of their lives. Katherine discovers she likes younger men. Nicole becomes a monster of destruction, a moral degenerate. She does everything and anything to piss on false pretense of happiness associated with her family's wealth and leisure. She chops off her curly brown hair and shoves it in a sewer drain, lives out of a backpack and on her friend's couches. She reads Henry Miller for the first time. She watches a Jorodowsky film. She falls in love with blood and guts. She gets into fist fights, slams heads into lockers. She will fuck boys, and then fuck men. She will become a lesbian, and not. She will fuck anything that moves and smiles at her -- that can look her in the eye when she comes. She looses any knowledge she ever had of giving a fuck. She laughs at bad jokes. She gets too, too high and talks about the language of infinity. She makes a best friend in Alixandre Lacorte. They have sleepovers and get drunk. They terrorize their high school. She listens to Nick Cave.

Nicole is unforgivingly blunt, perhaps not always honest. Obscenity crawls in her veins and she laughs it off with jokes and tongues on tongues. Her social disorder causes her to stick around a lousy job at Starbucks (she later learns to love) and attend a community college, en route to New York University for Biology and English Lit. She drops most of her friends from high school like flies</font>

b. 22 NOVEMBER 1988
LIVES AT 123 WAVERLY PLACE, NEW YORK, NEW YORK, 10011
CURRENTLY ATTENDS NEW YORK UNIVERSITY FOR ENGLISH LANGUAGE/LITERATURE & BIOLOGY
LIKES: LINGUISTICS, HORROR/GORE, FIGHTING, McSWEENEY's, SEX, PHILOSOPHY, NICK CAVE.