But ever fearful that her husband would notice this new foundhappiness and go out of his way to spoil it John’s mother sometimeshad to hide the true...measure of her pleasure when John paid herattention or offered companionship. It went against all her naturalinclinations but she only dared encourage her son’s displays ofaffection when the father was absent and though she knew the boy wassometimes confused and perplexed by her inconsistent behavior she hadno alternative.Slowly but surely however,. Again, they all nod up and down.But the last—and this was the most painful. In the hustling days, I had grown so close to, and loved so much—just like a brother, the twins. In the dreams, when their parents came to Dallas to pick them up, we never heard from them again. It was devastating—and it took me months, in the dreams, to get over it. In a way—I never did. It was like I had lost a piece of myself. After a few moments of near silence, Dustin finally speaks up-- “Well, I guess that shit. Jake had orders to report to basic training at Fort Jackson, South Carolina on June the eighteenth. His unit provided him a bus ticket and his orders. Jake would have to ride the bus because he had to report to the Military Liaison Desk at the Columbia Greyhound Bus Depot. He would be leaving for Columbia, South Carolina the night of the seventeenth. For the next week, the women in his life seemed to be trying to screw him into bad health so he couldn’t go. The Friday night before his. White Buck was so accurate with his bow that he really needed nothing else.I usually accompanied White Buck when he went hunting, not because we felt that he needed backup, but strictly for the company. I had come to love White Buck as my father, and I was like a son to him, so we thoroughly enjoyed each other’s company.One morning we were hunting in a wooded area north of the village. Since he was the senior hunter, White Buck was leading and I was following about 10 feet behind him. Suddenly,.