Chapters

CHAPTER ELEVEN   I met Barbara at a restaurant, through a friend of a friend. She was an attractive lady in her thirties. She was...

CHAPTER TWELVE    It had been around five months and the $3,000 my parents had given me (which would be close to $7,000 today) was almost...

CHAPTER THIRTEEN Being out of a job and having so many disadvantages in a foreign country was extremely demoralizing. I was spinning...

CHAPTER FOURTEEN    Right around the time I started working at Safeway, Barbara told me I had to move out of the small condo we shared...

CHAPTER FIFTEEN While I was still living in Seaside, I was invited by some friends to an upscale evening party at one of those fancy...

CHAPTER SIXTEEN    Dominic had to work, so after I was discharged from the hospital, I spent most of my days alone in my room at the back...

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN After a while, when I was recovered from my accident and getting back into the groove at work, Barbara and I reunited....

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN Barbara had three siblings in Sonora; I met them when we lived with Peggy. My sister-in-law, Barbara’s younger sister...

CHAPTER NINETEEN When I wasn’t shooting baskets all by myself at Sonora High, I would take long walks through downtown Sonora, trying to...

CHAPTER TWENTY From what I can remember, it was the fall of 1992 when, after being unemployed for over six months, I finally got a job at...