Ipacked my few things into the car and went back to Janets house,unloading things into her daughters old room. Janet let me get settledin, then, over ...inner, she and I talked."I know that persona that you have created is to make your father lookat you, take you serious, but maybe it's time to change that, and youhave an excellent opportunity with this Crossover thing. I think thatyou are ashamed of your father and his drinking, and that's okay, but Ithink now is the time to change that look you. As Boney M started singing Mary's Boy Child as the traffic started to thin out a bit. We moved off again.I picked up the phone. "Hello!" Daddy, what are you doing here? You're supposed to be In Romania with Mum." It was my daughter Phoebe."It didn't work out the way I'd hoped; perhaps I should have told her I was coming." What do you mean dad, surely she was pleased to see you?" I mean it would have given her time to get rid of her house guest." Daddy what are you talking about. I spoke to mum. John left school at fourteen, became a farm laborer and then rented his first croft when he was twenty-four. He married his sweetheart Maggie, and together they built up a successful sheep farm which they operated until five years ago. Maggie had a severe illness, so they gave up the farm and moved into a small house. Maggie's health stabilized and they had a further three contented years together before she passed away. Since then, John had lived on his own.“I miss Maggie so much, she was my. She planned on travel and might not be in contact for awhile. I didn't figure it to be for over a week. The rent's due in a couple days. Should I be concerned?"Not sure how to respond to that, I told the truth. "I don't know." You find her, you tell her to call home, okay?"When I finally arrived at the shitty little motel, I knocked the code on the door of room 26."Just a second," I heard through the door. Even through the door the voice sounded smoother and higher than the Russian's. When the.