LEADER 03767nam 2200469 450 001 9910703331303321 005 20160202093308.0 010 $a1-4634-2871-5 035 $a(CKB)4900000001340980 035 $a(OCoLC)936371579 035 $a(BIP)035601700 035 $a(EXLCZ)994900000001340980 100 $a20160202d2012 ua 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aLavender 205 $aUpdated April 2012. 210 1$a[Bethesda, Md.] :$cU.S. Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine,$d2012. 215 $a1 online resource (2 unnumbered pages) $ccolor illustrations 225 1 $aHerbs at a glance 300 $aTitle from title screen (viewed on Feb. 2, 2016). 300 $a"Created March 2007"--Page [2]. 300 $a"D366"--Page [2]. 311 $a1-4634-2872-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (page [2]). 330 8 $aAfter receiving his discharge from a two year stint in the army during the Korean War, Spencer Corbin moves to southern California, gets a job and spends his free time going to bars and movies. Not long after he arrives he begins having a series of related dreams about a beautiful woman called Lavender. He falls in love with her because she is "safe"---Spencer has no interest in marriage nor steady girl friend. One Saturday morning two beautiful women, Stefanie and Joanna, who are lesbians, move into a bungalow next to his. Stefanie is a free lance painter. Spencer asks her to paint a portrait of Lavender from his description of her. Soon Spencer falls in love with Stefanie but regards her, as with Lavender, a "safe" situation because she is in a relationship with Joanna. Ultimately, the relationship between Stefanie and Joanna cools and Stefanie falls in love with Spencer. However, Spencer never becomes aware of that and does not declare his love for her. Stefanie, who has never ever had any feelings for a man, does not declare her love for Spencer because she does not understand those feelings, and because she believes he might eventually dump her as he has done with other women. He has always made it very clear to her that he is not interested in anything smacking of a permanent relationship with a woman. the Lavender dreams continue unabated throughout the novel and after a while even Stefanie begins having Lavender dreams. No matter who dreams them the same three people (Lavender, Stefanie and Spencer) are always in them. Sometimes Spencer finds it difficult to separate his dreams from the real world in which he lives. Toward the end of the novel Spencer turns his wasteful life around and, thanks in large part to his love for Stefanie, pursues and obtains his Ph.D. in History from USC (he had obtained a Masters degree in History prior to his army service). Then he is hired as a professor at USC. This is the happiest time of his life and he finally decides to tell Stefanie that he loves her regardless of how she might take the news. But something intervenes to delay that confession. in the end do the two worlds, that of the dreams and that of the real existence, merge as one, or is one world shed in deference to the other? 606 $aLavenders$xTherapeutic use 610 $aCALIFORNIA 610 $aLESBIANS 610 $aFICTION 615 0$aLavenders$xTherapeutic use. 700 $aMansfield$b James$01432680 712 02$aNational Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (U.S.), 801 0$bGPO 801 1$bGPO 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910703331303321 996 $aLavender$93577683 997 $aUNINA