In 1997, John Lehr and Justine Bateman began an improvised conversation via e-mail. Neither knew where the other one would take the story at the time. The result was a tragic and disturbing look at the lives of JB and JCL as they fumbled through their lives.
The e-mails spanned June 1997 to January 1998. The length of the improvised converstion seems to cover just a few years, but we can't be sure; it may have been more.