’ ‘A pharmacist?’ ‘Correct. She’s been one for almost ten years now.’ ‘Here in Houston, you say?’ ‘Yes, sir.’ ‘She always was a ...mart, pretty young thing. I knew she’d make it big one day. Christ. She’s been under my nose all this time and I didn’t know it.’ ‘She’s been here for only two years. I traced her from work records in California.’ ‘Still, two years—I should have seen her.’ The client slid the envelope of money across the table to Mr. Ellis. ‘Job well done. I appreciate your time.’ ‘I. Two years was all it took before the Lord and Lady of the manor had their pampered son browbeaten into submission. In effect, they emasculated him with the same surgical precision a surgeon would use if castrating a man’s testicles. Dehorned and, for all intents and purposes de-balled, he stood by offering no resistance as his mother and father drove his young wife from ‘their’ house and ‘their’ home. Never once did it cross their minds that this was also ‘her’ home! The month Gabby left this. At the end of the second day I invited him into the kitchen to have a beer and as we sat sipping our suds Cheri, still in her two piece bathing suit, walked into the kitchen. Time to plant a seed I thought and I said, "You need to be careful about parading that sexy body around in front of Thad. Especially in no more that that bikini. He's got those raging hormones that all young men have and who knows what he might do if I'm not here to protect you." Thad blushed and looked down at the floor,. I think that in the next year we are going to see progress like you wouldn’t believe.”“Really?” Shirley asked.“Yes. I’ve watched too many projects that were nearly at completion get canceled by managers who are foreigners. I’ve heard of too many projects that died long miserable deaths when sent overseas. Those kinds of projects have consumed a tremendous amount of our resources with nothing to show for it. I bet we’ve wasted well over a trillion dollars and half of our scientists and.