" Thanks. Capt up yet?"He pointed behind me with his chin. "Oughta get an early start this run." I glanced back and saw Phil sauntering up the dock."C...ol." I clapped his shoulder. "I'll get the cabin boy strapped down then get the aft ropes."Ron cracked a smile and shook his head. "Come ta think of it, I best have a word with him." He all but flipped over the rail and chuckled to himself has he headed to meet our captain du jour.It was odd but not outrageous. I shrugged and went below. In. ..... I fell asleep. Morning comes, I'm up first and I start peeking around. I find Brian and Zoe in a deep sleep together with legs intertwined. Wow. And in their sleep they looked perfect together.Ken stayed awake longer than I. He told me of what he heard and expressed some displeasure in his baby sister being "such a slut". I got on him about that since she is no more of a slut than I. I learned the double standard is alive an well in male dominated Ghana society.Zoe filled me in on. Was able to focus on his own studies and his athletics. While Jon wasn’t making as much money as he had been, Reyna’s business had definitely made up the difference and then some that he’d lost. While they weren’t rich by any means, they were solidly middle-class. Going through high school J.J. kept with his football, track, and basketball. Football was the strongest of the three for him, with basketball just being a comparative side note. He ended up a two-year starter as a running back, all. I had just turned 12 years old when this happened and was getting ready for the 8th grade. I had blonde hair, about 51, 90 lbs, and was a 32B then. My best friend Denise who was 12 lived a few doors down from me with her mom, dad, and 15-year-old twin brothers, James and Julius. Denises mom was white and her dad was black, so the kids were all mixed. Denise and I use to do everything together&hellip,spend nights, go swimming, go shopping you name it. We had a lot of fun. During the summer our.