AR Foreword

I'm not sure exactly how to start, so I'll just begin at the beginning and hope you can figure out what happened.

My name is April Summers. Yes, I'm that April Summers. I'm sure you're wondering why I'm writing part of my autobiography when I'm only twenty-one. There are two reasons: first, a lot of our fans have asked us how we got our start in acting; and second, Max has been bugging me to write it because it's going to be turned into a book and a movie. Oh--Max is Maxfield Parrish, the President of Parrish Studios down in Hollywood, California. I know you've seen my movies, but he wants me to do some producing and directing in addition to acting, so that's really why I'm writing the book now instead of waiting. He figures that since I personally know what happened, I'm the best person to produce and direct the movie, and because AprilRose.Com was my idea in the first place.

I'm not going to bore you with my early childhood because it won't be in the movie. I'll just say that it was pretty typical for a lower middle-class (or upper lower-class) family living in Anchorage, Alaska. If you've read anything about me, you know that I have a younger brother and sister, Paul and Rose; you've seen their movies, too--they always star together. They're twins; Paul is maybe six minutes older than Rose. Of course a boy and girl can't be identical twins, and Paul is about a foot taller than Rose--that's pretty easy because Rose is only four-foot eleven--but other than that, they are absolutely identical except Rose is still more outspoken than Paul. And yes, her hair is naturally blonde, her turquoise blue eyes really are that big, and no, she has not had breast enlargement surgery--they're very real, and I can personally attest to that.

The last five years is really more about Paul and Rose than it is about me, and once you get to know them, you'll understand why. Oh, I'm in the book because I'm part of the family, but everything seems to revolve around Rose--or "Rosy," as Paul has always called her.

It's also the story about Susan, Sherry, Ted, Heather and Emma. And it's about Priscilla, to whom this book is dedicated. Also it's about my Mom Lauren and my Dad David. Dad really doesn't appear much in the book because he was up around Prudhoe Bay when most of this happened. He went up there to do oil exploration because his musical instrument business--he makes custom electric gutars--sort of went bust and we were broke. We didn't stay broke for long, as you'll see.

I've let Max read the rough draft of the book; he doesn't make films that go beyond PG-13, but he wanted me to be as accurate as possible so I described exactly what happened, every explicit sexual detail, and I also wrote down what we said as much as we could remember, complete with all the four-letter words.

See, we weren't brought up in some fancy suburban environment; Mom and Dad were like hippies except they never did drugs. Dad graduated high school, but Mom had me when she was just fifteen and she had to drop out of school. So I guess we were kind of poor gypsies until Rose auctioned off her panties. Dad drives a four-wheel-drive pickup truck, but if you live in Alaska you'd better have something like that or you'll be stuck in Anchorage all winter. I guess we're doing a little better now: we commute from Anchorage to Los Angeles in our own Learjet.

Mom and Dad weren't taught how to talk all refined like Kindra (you'll meet Kindra in the book) so they said the "F" word a lot and it rubbed off on me and the twins. Dad always says that if you're going to use swear words, it depends on who's listening and what the context is--like when you smash your thumb with a hammer.

Anyway, I'm getting off-track. Max read the rough draft and said to leave everything just the way it is (except for some grammar which he fixed.) I know the sex is graphically explicit, but I won't apologize because that's what really happened and I wrote it down. I don't know how Max is going to do it, but he says the movie will be exactly the way the book is, even if it ends up being rated "XXX" and is banned by every right-wing extremist group in the country.

I had a hard time trying to come up with sex phrases that weren't all lame like "throbbing purple love organ." Rose says you should call a rose a rose, and that a vagina is a vagina, but she also added that the phrase, "A rose by another name would smell as sweet" (Shakespeare, I think) didn't apply to vaginas. I'm sorry, but that's what she said. When she was little she used to call it a "javina." She had a name for Paul's penis, but it made absolutely no sense and I can't even remember what it was, except it wasn't a "throbbing purple love organ" because back then Paul's little wiener (I do use some words other than "penis") wasn't purple and it didn't throb. It was funny to watch them take baths together when they were little because they liked to play with their...

I'm sorry, I keep getting off the track. Paul and Rose have this relationship that might shock some people. You'll just have to read the book to understand, and then you won't condemn them. Let's just say that they think and act exactly alike, and they do everything together. Everything.

For those of you who believe sex is offensive, dirty, nasty or sinful, I suggest you find some professional help. Sex is the most wonderful, beautiful, and natural driving force in the universe, if it is done as part of a sharing relationship where each person regards her or his partner as an equal. If not, it's just using someone else as your sex tool. Using someone is offensive, and part of the book is about that, but the book is really about love and equality. Love and equality are not offensive, dirty, nasty or sinful.

So, for our fans who have been asking how we got our start as actors and how Paul and Rose won their Oscars, this book will explain it. I hope I've said enough here so that you can read the book without thinking it's some kind of smutty story, which it's not intended to be. Give it a chance; get to know us. Then, if you want to condemn us, that's your problem. I'll be back at the end of the book to fill you in on what's happened recently.

Bye for now,

April Summers