We can eat at the terminal or you can follow me or I can drive. I would really like to get to know you better.’ With that we were off as I had to do...the pre-flight checks. We took off right on time but ran into quite a bit of turbulence just before landing at DFW. It was a bumpy landing due to strong cross winds as well. We did manage to land about 7 minutes early however. Once I finally got off of the plane, Sheila and Lil Bit were waiting for me. Now would be a good time to describe Sheila.. He didn't think that it would be a big deal, but found out he was wrong. It didn't make sense to him, but the finality of it was devastating. He hung up the phone with shaking hands and left to go to the restroom before he made a fool out of himself in front of everyone. Karen caught him in the hallway."Steve, what's wrong?" she asked with concern."That was my lawyer. Everything's over, I'm single again." Steve tried to smile, but failed miserably. He retreated into the bathroom to collect. Well, what he actually said when I asked him if he knew anyone who might want a job was, ‘Carla.’ That was enough for me.”I nodded. “How do you know him?”“He trained me.” So, Army then. I’d been Navy. “Frank wouldn’t give me your number or address, but he said you used to come here. I came here, asked the lady behind the bar and she said you still do. So, I got lucky.”“Not many people call Ernie a lady. What do you want?”“Another gin would be nice.” She did a thing with her eyebrow. Many times over the year spent with women of the okiya Sun wondered at Masao’s intentions for having Sun stay here, by the end he understood. An okiya is a Geisha house, they live, work and train for their craft here. Much of the study comes from watching the older women along with the formal study of music, art and literature to become companions for the Japanese elite. Sun being in the environment day in and day out, learned them as well. While the girls and women who lived and worked in the.