"One duty that left Monica was teaching English to her class. Rita McCoy, it turned out, was a natural at teaching English as a second language.She wa... at the top of her high school class in Providence, Rhode Island. But then her stepfather started molesting her. Rita's mother refused to believe her. So Rita ran away. She ended up strung out on drugs and turning tricks in New York City.She managed to kick the drugs on her own, and was trying to organize the hookers, for better working. I know you truly loved Silvia....."I immediately began to speak and interrupt her, but Cindy squeezed me once again, and put her fingers to my lips, hushing me up simultaneously. "You wouldn't have married her if you didn't Tom. And I also know the divorce was hard on you, more than what you've ever been willing to tell anyone, or willing to admit too. I also know that in time, before we met even, that you finally came to grips with it, but that it never really gave you any peace. There had. Shinjirealized she'd acted like Asuka...and it didn't bother her.It was no wonder she laughed, as did Asuka. They laughed and laughed foras long as they could before embracing each other like sisters."Thank you," Shinji smiled, "I feel sooooo much better now." Didn't I tell you it's a better trade off?" Asuka replied, "Now, littlesis, you have 8 hours as me, what do you think we should do?"Shinji stood up and stretched, "Well, for one thing, some decent clotheswould be nice. A girl like me. Two of the men keeping watch on the cattle rode over to us and asked something I didn’t understand. One of our guides replied to him.“He works for Señor José Castro and wondered who we were and what we were doing here,” one guide explained. “I told him we were headed for Monterey. He says that Señor Castro will insist on us spending the night and eating dinner with him. It’s another two days’ ride to Monterey from here.”We agreed, and were taken to meet Señor José Castro, owner of Rancho San.