But we aren't." Why?" I don't know. We're just different." Different how?"He stared at me and with an unexpected edge said, "We're justdifferent." Wh...t about Jonathan? Are you close?"He smiled. "Always." Interesting. Brian had two brothers and asister. He didn't talk about them much."That makes you happy?" Yes, he always took care of me. Took me places. Always made sure Iwas taken care of." He had a gentle smile."How so? Give me an example." When he was a junior at Columbia, he. I knew that it was normal and healthy for Robert to resume his sex life with girls his own age upon returning to school. In fact, the only way I could justify our relationship was a firm belief that at the end of the summer, things would return to normal. But I was jealous nonetheless. I knew it was silly. I knew what Robert and I had was simply a summer fling. He was several years my junior. We were having a torrid affair, that he would remember for the rest of his life. I was having the. Born so low toward the bottom of the social structure that he looked up to white trash hillbilly rednecks as "high society," he resented being looked down on but had no idea how to change the situation. So he figured that was the way of the world. To him, "Hit's just the way things is" said it all.He had known only poverty and insecurity all his life. He didn't see his straits as bad or threatening. "Hit's just the way things is." was his grinning evaluation of life in general. He figured,. The afternoon’s schedule meant that I would have to be back at my house soon. As we dragged Julio inside and down to the basement I thought furiously about how to organize this mess. Sure I could turn him over to the local cops but after what Lee and Karen had told me about Chief Wallace’s attitude I wasn’t sure that would have been a good idea. I wasn’t sure what game he was playing or where he was getting his orders from. The house was unfurnished, the bulk of the furniture having been.