He loved the neighborhood and was making new friends. He felt as if he had come home and was certain that he would never return to Japan again to live... He had found his sanctuary in the United States with his sister and their friend. Hideki took his new life to heart. Yuri and his sister took him shopping and bought him a new wardrobe. They insisted, telling him that he still looked too Japanese. ‘Arigato,’ Hideki smiled as he put on his first-ever pair of blue jeans. He started running and. The call came out for us females to get moving back to the jungle and he told me if I wanted to escape to come to the warehouse shed on the midnight shift because he would be there every night and he could hide me until it was time for them to return to the city and I could stay with his Mama until I could find a place of my own or contacted my own people for funds or whatever. I could tell that all he was interested in was a piece of my ass for as long as possible because he was obviously not. ’ I must admit that the idea was quite enticing, Guy was the handsomest man I’d met in a long time, well, excluding Mike, who wasn’t that handsome anyway. Oh, you know what I mean. I looked at him, ‘Would you mind, you know, if I went with him. If he and Jo do hit it off. Wouldn’t you be jealous?’ ‘I suppose I would be,’ he said pensively, ‘but I have no right to be have I. I am going to ‘go with’ Jo aren’t I, you ‘go with’ Jo and I don’t feel jealous about that. I don’t think I’d like it if. I might have been born and raised in the city, but I wasn't completelyunfamiliar with small towns. Between my law-enforcement career and apassion for fishing which had often taken me to small towns in Illinoisand Wisconsin, I knew small towns fairly well. Ovid was more prosperousthan most of them. Everything seemed neat, clean and freshly painted, asif the town was getting ready for some big event.Most small towns in the Midwest were in decline. Farming took an eversmaller percentage of the.