It was a two garageaffair, a two story, four bedroom ranch house done up in a bit of a 1950'sstyle but updated to look classic. The yard was large an... landscaped, aconcrete walking path led from a large patio in back to a garden area.Large coniferous trees lined the entire property and a fence lined theouter estate The drive way once inside the gate turned and wound throughthe trees to avoid passersby looking in then continued in asphalt up tothe front of the house and the garages. The place. He had seen it in Japan, Korea, Vietnam, and Thailand, but the Filipina women had been mixed with other races until it had almost disappeared there. At least HE had never seen it there.All their talk had excited them both. Misti was surprised at Rick sharing his observations with her, and comparing her so favorably with all the women he had known, and Rick had been surprised at Misti sharing so many intimate details of HER life, with HIM.They dried themselves off and went to the bed, where. I went down the street to the general store to thank the owner for being solicitous of Jessie as she lay dying. "Glad I was where I could be of help, Sheriff. Maybe it kept her alive long enough so you could say good-bye to her." Could be. I wanted to thank you anyway." As I was coming out, I met George and Bertha coming into the store.George was beginning to show his age and was moving slow. "How's things out at the ranch?" Making do, same's always. Wish we could find a body to help, but. Of course, the fact that my parents had a pool and that the weather was just perfect, was something of an added bonus, and we had spent most of the first afternoon there, enjoying the cool water under the immaculate blue sky. The second day, we woke up late. I don’t know why, but my girlfriend was in a particularly good mood, humming to herself over our light breakfast and moving around with a definite spring in her step. Vacation time was already doing us good, I was thinking. We had lunch.