Keith Poata had spent the last six days in this place and was now preparing to leave. The generosity of the camp’s owners had seen Keith being given...a new canoe to complete his original, summer holiday quest. That quest was to traverse the Waikato River from the Karapiro Dam up behind the little township of Cambridge in the Waikato district down to Port Waikato on the west coast of the North Island of New Zealand. It was a journey of about 142 kilometres to be taken over about 5 to 7 days at. Why don’t you two come to my house for lunch? Then we can join Tommy’s parents.’ ‘You never did fool me, Baxter. You pretend to be a hard, critical, academic type, but you’re an old softie,’ Miller chuckled. ‘Stan, Diane is like my favorite niece. I would let Tommy live in my house if he needed to. They would make a lovely couple.’ ‘Then it’s settled. Diane and I will see you for lunch on the twenty-third. I should ring off now. Small-town doctors don’t earn the money you artists do.’ ‘You’re. Jennifer was the way she was because of her c***dhood experiences and couldn't help the way she treated David and for that matter all her previous boyfriends. She'd grown up in a very strict fundamentalist family whose patriarchal dictator father never let any indiscretion go unpunished.Jennifer could never do anything right for her father and could never get away with anything. She was always being punished. This wouldn't have been too bad except that her perfect younger brother was always. "Yeah, I'm not looking to meet anyone. Just want to read and do my laundry without some asshole who just wants to screw me making stupid conversation in a misguided attempt to get laid." Jake flicked his smoke away and smiled at her. "Fuck you, bitch!" He walked back inside, leaving her spluttering outside. She came back in, back stiff with anger. She ignored him for the next hour. Jake was seething. Some people were just rude for no reason. So what if he wanted to fuck her? Maybe if women.