As I sat in the back of class I would always try to sneak a peek at my crush, Adam. Adam had short brown hair eyes of dark blue and skin of light brow.... His smile was made the rest of the world seem as unimportant as a piece of balled up paper in the street. Of course, I could never tell him how I felt. The shame that I thought would surely follow my secret coming out into the open was an almost unbearable thought. My only happiness came from the fact that we happened to share the same schedule. ”“I’ll have one as well, thanks,” Georgina said.“Coffees? After dinner drinks?” the waitress asked.“No thanks,” I said.“We can have coffee at my place,” Georgina said.The cheesecake was just as good as the others had promised; when I had finished every last crumb and fragment on my plate, I wished I had more. That would be being greedy though. The meal was excellent in every respect; I felt quite satisfied and full. I paid the bill, and we headed back to Georgina’s apartment.As we started. ” Herb Fullerton replied, “We’ve had gold mining going on for 100 years and Anthony at the bank became Regional Manager when his boss got into some ice and drove into a tree twenty years ago. No one wanted to live in the area, so Anthony got the job by default.”“What is your cut in all this?” John asked.“I’m sure you’ll figure it out anyway, so I might as well tell you. I buy some of the repossessed houses from the bank for little or nothing. I hang onto them for six months and then sell them. You must have been running your horse against the shorter, Quarter Horses that are coming out of Texas.”“We’ve raced him against any and all comers; he’s never been beaten yet and he’s raced against some that are supposed to be the best around our part of the country,” Ezra spoke up.“I’m sorry, I wasn’t putting him down. It’s just that most horses haven’t the heart, nor the build or breeding to race against a true thoroughbred racehorse. The stamina and the love to run has to be bred into a.