"When are you sending me to them anyway?" she asked taking her first bite, "December 23rd" her mother replied, "Why so early?" Jessica asked, "Mr. Joh...son wants to tenderize you for 2 days leading up to when he will spit you on Christmas morning, you will roast all day to be ready for their dinner by 5pm" her mother said looking over to her daughter. Now Jessica was getting to much information and it was scaring her.Jessica spent the next few weeks completely nude not even wearing so much as a. .....me. After mulling this over into the early hours I eventually succumbed to my tiredness and drifted off into my own sleep, the last thing I remember that night is kissing Sue lightly on the cheek, feeling her stir a little and closing my eyes. Returning home from work a day or two later I entered the kitchen to be greeted home to the sight of a stark naked Andrew preparing himself a sandwich, we swapped peasantries as though having a naked black man raiding the fridge in my own home was. Three nights later, the boys were back over again."I can't even believe you're playing this week Jack." said my friend Sammy."Yeah well, maybe my luck will change for the better tonight." I sighed.With a chuckle he said "Yeah it better."We started out, me not wanting to bet anything after the beating I had taken the week before, but that changed. I was actually winning, nearly every hand, winning big and loosing small, I was back! We played for two hours, and I was up $200 bucks. I hadn't lost. After prohibition was repealed, Dutch decided it was time to go legit. Winning the river property set the ball in motion. He completely renovated the first floor and gussied up the orphans’ rooms to make what was now Flamingo’s, the hottest hotel and nightclub in Cincinnati. Most weekends, hastily parked cars littered the side streets while the main drag was lined with taxis and limousines waiting to expel men in silk hats and ladies in exotic furs. The uniformed doorman had ample opportunity.