I have to admit, I was interested. I wanted to explore the idea, but I didn't know how to go about it.First things first. I sat down with Martin and T...m and discussed what it would take to buy the property. Martin suggested that the owner was not in desperate need of cash, but did want to liquidate the asset. Tom suggested we make a lowball offer and see what the guy came back with. We didn't have to commit to buying it, but we needed to know some hard-dollar costs.Next, Jurgen made an overseas. Eight years ago..." Eight years... ? How old are you?" I'll be twenty one in two weeks" he smiled "... and the coffee, four years ago, when Mrs. Jenkins left." So you... left school?"His expression became pained a little."Yeah, but that doesn't mean anything. 'They only teach you rubbish there. Life is the best school'" he quoted someone she didn't know. His grandmother, she figured."So, how do I leave here?" she changed the subject, confusing him a little."What?" he asked, obviously buying. "I told her that wanting to be an older woman wasn't a mistake. "It'swhat I want, Mom. I promise."Mom bit her lip and shook her head. "What would you think about somekind of a compromise?" she asked."Compromise? What kind of compromise? I hope you're not talking aboutsplitting it down the middle between 16 and 46 because I don't want tobe 30." Actually, I was thinking younger than that. I was thinking maybe youcould try out being a girl your age."I stabbed out my cigarette in the ashtray. But who?Tiffany wants to go bursting into the room, but she is afraid. So she stands at the doorway listening in hopes to get a feel of what is going on.“Don’t you see Mother?” Max asks as he turns toward Grace. “Father here has been using you since the beginning.”Mother? Father?Grace looks up at Max. Tiffany can see her eyes shift from the man she has only known as Amber’s boyfriend to someone else in the room and back.“That’s why I have been feeding him only men,” Grace says. “But I still.