Blown for Good - Marc Morgan Headley [79]
The thing about the base is that there is no “drive it before you buy it” clause. If you get caught in anyway whatsoever messing around before you get married, you will go to the Rehabilitation Project Force. It had happened with this one guy who sat at my dining room table. He and his girlfriend had sex once and he went to the Rehabilitation Project Force in Los Angeles. Another girl that I knew had sex with someone and she met the same fate.
So Claire and I were careful not to have any romantic interludes that would wind us up on the RPF. After a few months of being together, we decided that we would get married in August of that year.
Because Claire was under 18 years of age, I had to get her parents to sign a waiver and my dad flew out to LA and drove us up to Las Vegas to get married in the state of Nevada.
In California, if you want to get married and you are under 18, you have to be interviewed by a psychologist and as that was strictly forbidden by the Scientology organization it was off to Vegas where they had no such requirement.
We had a total of three days off for the wedding. We went down to LA and met up with my dad, he took us to the jewelry district in downtown LA to get some rings. Claire and I were broke as a joke so my dad got us some really inexpensive rings which was his wedding present to us. My dad was not loaded with cash, but without him I would have had no rings. Afterwards, it was off to Vegas. We drove up in the afternoon, got the license in the all-night courthouse then went to a chapel where they did the ceremony and we drove right back to LA that night/morning to prepare for the ceremony that would take place the next day.
Since most of my wife’s family and friends lived in LA, we had the wedding at the Celebrity Centre / Manor Hotel in Los Angeles. My mom and Claire’s mom took care of whatever arrangements were needed. Neither Claire nor I had anything to do with the invitations, flowers, cake, etc. We just showed up.
It was clear that Claire’s mom had done more on the wedding invitations than my mom, because I only knew about ten people who attended the wedding and that included my family!
We stayed at the Manor hotel that night. The next morning we got a call from the base. We were informed that we would not be getting a room together back at the base because no more couples’ rooms were available! As if that was not bad enough, Claire’s seniors were canceling her honeymoon day and said that she had to come back to work right away.
We went back to the base and while Claire went back to work, I went out to the apartments in Hemet and scoped out our chances of getting a room. Claire lived with several girls in a dorm. It was strictly forbidden for girls and guys to live in the same apartments. I did not care. Claire lived in an apartment with seven other girls. One of the girls had just blown the week before, which cut the number down to six. This was a small number of girls living in a two-bedroom apartment. Most two-bedroom apartments had four girls in each bedroom and maybe three to five in the living room as well.
I decided that this was our best chance at getting a room together.
I moved all of the belongings of the two girls that were sharing a room with Claire into the small living room and moved all my belongings into the room that Claire was already in.
In a few hours we had a room. And I was living in an all girls apartment! When the girls came home that night, they were none too happy. After a few weeks, all the girls were moved out and a couple moved into the other bedroom. Corinne Smith and Henning Bendorf moved in. Corinne was Maureen Bolstad’s twin sister. Maureen Bolstad had tried to leave the base and was not allowed to. There were a lot of rumors going around about Maureen and that she was crazy because she tried to leave. I think it took her at least two or three years to finally