All I intend to do is provide a neutral meeting ground. If it goes south, if you don’t like her answers to your questions, I’ll support you comple...ely if you walk away. I have no idea how you’re going to handle breaking the news to Katie. She’s a happy little girl, but the strain is starting to show. She showed me a painting she’d finished and pointed out her signature. Katie O’Mallory-Dawes. If you guys do part, I’ll be keeping her as much as her mother will allow. We’ve bonded to each other. The houses looked as if they were abandoned and were nothing but stumps. Windows broken, doors cracked, etc. I heard about these types of neighborhoods. They were always ran by gangs or mean black people. I heard that a white boy my age walked down this street and was shot on sight. I never knew I was going to have to walk down these streets like he had to. What happens if I get shot? Beaten? Mugged? The possibilities are endless. I stood there, holding my bag and stared numbly at the street.. If some woman had come along in those six months to pique my interest, I might have stayed longer to see if the relationship might go somewhere, but no such luck.I was familiar enough with New York to know that the hardest part of the move would be finding an affordable place to live. I moved into corporate housing, thinking I might have to stay for several weeks, but I lucked out when one of my co-workers put me onto a friend of hers with a great apartment in Brooklyn who was looking for a. "What a story!", he exclaimed. "We might even try to make a film out of that! You never know! That gay black Wykehamist bouncer is a lovely touch!" I'd rather you didn't, to be quite honest" replied Veronica with a shiver - the fire was rapidly diminishing by now and she was, of course, still quite naked in the cold night air."You never know. This film could be the making of you! I certainly hope so! And now I really must be getting along before all the good that blaze did for me goes to waste!.