Where is "America" and what do we mean when we call America "the nation"? The United States is a union of states that is located on the continent of North America and on the Hawaiian Islands in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. A more exact name for "the nation" would be, "The United States of North America and the Pacific Ocean." Whatever the name, the union has always had difficulty being one nation since it has been adding states since 1787, in all 37 new states. Has the actual history of America since the ratification of the Constitution been the construction of a nation or of a union of...

Ursula Ridley 19 believes her ugliness is the cause of her failed love affairs with young men. She drops out of college and starts a live-in relationship with her former high-school Latin teacher, Robert Dolan 70. Can a May-December relationship survive the interference of three opponents meddling against it? Do Ursula and Robert love strongly enough to remain united despite the conflicts caused by members of Ursula's family and by the desires of a lesbian lover? At the beginning no end is in sight but events that the couple can not control pull them towards the end of all beginnings.