Ruben figured there was no need for anyone to know just how many cousins and brothers he'd helped across the border, how many he'd helped find work pi...king vegetables and fruit. Likewise, there was no need to tell anyone about the cheap drugs, the medicinal kind, that he helped his brother pull out of Mexico. The drugs were mostly horse medicines and antibiotics, not narcotics. The competition over narcotics amongst the LA gangs was intense. Only a fool or a pretty-powerful organization would. He parked and told me to go to the front door with him. I wasnt going to sit in the car dressed the way I was especially when I didnt know when hed be back and besides I didnt really trust him. As we approached the door it seemed to know when to open, a hand reached out and grabbed me and he helped push me in. The hand belonged to a black man and the next thing I saw where two others in the front room with sneers on their faces. Who she belong to one of them asked. I thought What ? What the. It was about 6 months later when I was surfing internet porn sites that I came across an interesting page called, “Ex-girlfriends on Display”. You didn’t have to be a movie producer to realize the videos were definitely amateur. I bookmarked the site and didn’t give it much thought until a week or so later.I was working the day shift and got home around 5PM. I mixed a drink and fired up the computer. I remembered the ex-girlfriend site that I’d bookmarked the week before, pulled it up and. He kept following me, he calledme 'Esperanza' and....." She frowned. "That means Hope in Spanish." Shewinced again, perhaps at the memory."But he finally left you alone? In the rain?" I felt angry at the trucker. What had he done to scare her so? I could guess."No. This was last night, it wasn't raining. I hid in a ditch till he gave upand went away. Then I woke up. I was wet and cold and I tried to catch aride, no one would stop on the freeway. I climbed the hill, I fell down a lot but the.