Heathcoate himself was the muscle behind the operation. One glance at the giant press with its central screw and plates and the long rod Master Merle ...nserted for additional leverage was sufficient to explain his overdeveloped shoulders and arms. Printing was man’s work. Each sheet was impressed separately, but with clever typesetting and layout a sheet could carry eight pages of text. Master Heathcoate passed the printed sheets to be cut and sewn into signatures for binding by a worker in fine. " Uh-huh, I noticed that too," she agrees. "But some of the guys seem tobe getting into more daring clothes, like baring their tummys."Laughing, I say, "Yeah, but only the one's without beer-bellys. But didyou notice that the guys with boobs really seem to be showing them off alot more than the girls are?" Oh yeah. And they all seem to be wearing men's style shirts that arecut and fit to allow for their boobs, too," she adds."Well, most of them at least. I've seen a few wearing what look. Lorena's still there. She runs the firm, but she's smart enough to let the partners think they do it.Some of my father's friends recommended me to their friends and families. They recommended me to their friends and so on. The firm grew. It's Costello, Rao, Schwartz, and Moreno now. I'm still the lead partner and I go there if they need me.I built The Sunset along a busy highway leading from the city to the suburbs on a large parcel of vacant land. I sold the land I didn't use for a shopping. I wanted to be that guy.Angelina would look at me with her soulful dark eyes. She would give me a sweet smile and kiss me one more time. That always signaled the end of this particular conversation.A couple of years went by. Angelina and I continued growing closer. Mother was now dragging me out to coming out parties for local debutantes, sometimes to socials at the country club. I hated them. I found them to be boring and the people to be plastic and fake. Mother was always happy to point out.