All this made it even easier for me to find and seduce women. It was a rare occasion that I went to any city and did not have s*x with at least one. A case of gonorrhea and a very private trip to a doctor in Seattle at least made me start purchasing condoms. Thankfully I was far enough away on tour that I didn’t risk spreading it to Alissa. After that, I had to be careful to conceal the condoms, which we never used at home, and I tried to have a bit more discretion about the women I slept with.
It wasn’t long before Clara caught me with my little soldier acting up in the early spring of 1964. We had finished a service at a huge auditorium in Chicago, and it had not taken long for me to spot a sultry brunet sitting at the front near my podium, and there it was, my trademark obsession. She
