Dear Laura: a memoir

Dear Laura is a touching story of love and passion. Determined to abandon his cookie-cutter life in Los Angeles working as a geologist, the author puts down roots in Australia ready to start life anew. On a whim, he takes up dance where he meets Laura, a sweet, exotic, Italian-Australian woman of singular beauty and unique character who affects the author deeply. The ensuing relationship sets in motion a touching chain of events that involve Rachel, a lovely young dance instructor who is reeling from her own personal tragedy.

Dear Laura achieves an unprecedented marriage between the author's lucid, detailed, and direct professional writing style and a highly personal, sensitive, and emotional story of love and adventure. Through his uncanny use of subtle dry wit and candor, Bill Girolamo tells an epic story that spans two continents and fifteen years, and immortalizes the woman who had the most profound and lasting effect on his life.