“Good morning!”‘She’ was so bubbly that her joy was contagious. Our neighbors waved back.“Good morning.”“We are sorry if we embarrassed ...ou last night, but we just got married and, well, we just got married.”“No problem, we understand.”We all got into the elevator and went down to the first floor, where we got out and started our walk to the farmers market. Our hands were interlocked and swinging as we walked. If there could have been cartoon characters around us it would have been happy. Lower income, red neck, blue collar. She had three or four younger sisters at home and at least one older brother and two sisters that had already left home. Her mother was a mousey little thing who always seemed to be over worked and under appreciated. When I met Rene, her mother was several months pregnant with the latest of a long line of offspring.Rene's dad worked at one of the many gas stations in town. In those days that would have been equivelant to flipping burgers in a fast food. He enjoyed the boy so much that he sold his time and ass to other men in the encampment. And thus, even before he reached the new world, commenced Serrah vocation in life.The boy was transported within a couple of weeks across the Middle Passage and eventually reached here, this small stockaded pen located he knew not where in the world. His own world, which had not been all that good to him but that, nevertheless, had been his home, had been lost.He knew what he was meant to be now, though.. Getting an axle to work for the wheels; an axle that is strong enough to take the weight of you as well as the frame; now that was a problem I can tell you. I have used the hardest wood I can find and used animal fat to allow it to run smoothly, but I am unsure of how effective it will be. I might have to use a smooth stone instead. I have been told of a stone that is hard like that, yet it is not difficult to polish it smooth.”“I think you Are referring to marble, Brando.”“Is that the name? Or.