The monkeys were especially quiet that day.We arrived at the staging area near the field of vegetables by mid-afternoon, and each platoon again went o...er their assignments and the approach to their area. The platoons responsible for the southern and western parts of the camp departed first, since they had the longest approaches. The operations Officer and his Sergeant went with them. The northern and eastern platoons left later due to easier, shorter approaches to the camp. The attack was. The Africans didn’t welcome the Black American Princess into their midst anymore. Angelo saw me as unrealistic, pampered and sheltered. And I saw him as bitter and unwilling to let things go. This drove a wedge between us, and we stopped seeing each other. I began to avoid him. Maybe everybody else was right. We were too different. We came from two different worlds. I’m sorry but I like my family. And I like being rich. I like having money. And I like living in Oak Bluffs, surrounded by rich. Instead of the north of England I was in Ireland... and stuck for theday. Everything I had planned was down the tube. I just walked offsnarling and snapping at my stupidity... at trusting to luck. And justlike that... just like that, without thinking, I did something brutishlike barging into a woman...She snapped and snarled... and spoke with this musical Irish accent."Ye'll bidder mind yer manners..." I... I'm sorry... I'm..." Sey yer should be! Ah... I ken ye have problems... Lonely an. .I must have pulled a muscle when I jumped up so quick from the lounge, because I could feel a twinge starting in my lower back. Before long, that small twinge was just a little too painful and I had to stand up.My sister asked what was wrong as I grabbed my back, agony plain on my face. Having given each other massages before after sporting events and the like, she offered to do the same now and instructed me to lie down in front of the TV so she could fix her big brother.As I faced the TV I.