By boat usually meant a Liner like the Queen Mary but sometimes it meant steamship ... as in tramp freighter. Tramp freighters have no set schedule ..... they are opportunists ... they go where the freight is.Mail by Liner was five days ... steamship might be five weeks ... and that's after getting to New York or Boston by rail.A day spent being "sorted" in the local Post Office ... another day on the train, yet another day at the New York or Boston Post Office ... being sorted again, five to. Of course my Uncle Alan did not consider it appropriate for him to look after his 16 year old daughter, as he would need assistance going to the bathroom and dressing her, so he asked my mom if Sylvia could stay with me until her casts came off.Uncle Alan packed Sylvia's stuff and drove her over to my house; I made up the spare bed. Sylvia is brunette, five feet two inches with nice legs, she is very popular and her friends phoned and text her from early in the morning until late every night.. I wanted to see you again, so bad I can taste your kiss on my lips. I wanted to make love to you all night long! Now, don't start crying I cannot handle it when you cry. " Damn-it Douglas, why do I always have to wait to hold you in my arms? Why can't you tell them to let you come this way first?" Honey, I have to go where they say. They almost never listen to me I told you that. I'm sorry. I don't like it either. Sometimes, I cannot help it. I have a job to do. Maybe you should think about. .. Hello? Hello? Bitch."I heard him slam the phone down and laugh. It was probably meant to sound sinister but it only sounded lame. What didn't sound lame was the sound of the front door closing.Hawk stopped me from opening the balcony door. "Wait," she whispered. "Give him a minute to be sure he's gone."I controlled my desire to run like hell and stood still until Hawk said we could go. After what seemed like an eternity, Hawk slid the balcony door open and peeked past the curtain."Looks like.