However a couple months back you started to hear dad and sis arguing, at first it was little things, harsh whispers late at night barely detectable, b...t then you noticed that the arguments getting louder and the words clearer. When it got loud enough that there was no denying that sis was telling dad to kick mom out, things got really strained; not knowing what to do you played dumb.That went on for several months with dad promising to do something, but doing nothing. Then one day it just. Basil must have been watching us as he suddenly stepped out from behind the office van as we approached. He was even bigger than I remembered, probably about 6′ 6′ tall and weighing in at around 18 stones, without a visible ounce of surplus fat. He was dressed in a ancient, faded pair of blue dungarees, an old fashioned collarless shirt, and an army surplus, leather sleeveless jerkin. He strode towards us and shoved out his massive paw, shaking hands first with Maggie and then myself. ‘Better. It isn't anymore, and that was the other reason I got worried when Sammy came through our door. Tammy had insisted on doing this job alone, in a city with war zones where kids get shot in crossfires every month. Where cheap crack has cheapened life while it fries brains and spreads AIDS. There are not very many Ben Siegels nowadays. Whenever I walk down Grand Street near Seward Park and Amalgamated Houses I pass Ben's old office and I think about him, and how things have changed.P.I.'s like me. They had indeed enjoyed a small feast: brown nuts, some other green horn-shaped fruit with soft sweet flesh, as well as something that resembled wheat in taste and form, but was over-sized and purple in color. Then there was another kind of crisp fruit with red flesh on the inside, wonderfully juicy and marvelously mellow.With Hilderich displaying genuine culinary audacity mixing various fruit-stuffs together and roasting them in small leaf parcels, they had indeed made the best of what Amonas.