What I left out

THE BOYS NEXT DOOR and ENDLESS SUMMER do not contain real people or events or even places, but they certainly were inspired by my experience growing up on Lake Martin near Alexander City, Alabama. I have been caught in a thunderstorm on the lake, I have nearly lost a sailboat mast in deep waters, I know what it feels like to wake up outdoors at 6 a.m. (though not in my boyfriend's truck), and my brother had a spectacular waterski crash that left him needing stitches in his forehead. But of co...