What I needed

Over a year had passed.

Did I need that much time to pass? Is a year enough?

The country is at a boom. Foreign companies are opening offshore offices. Cheap was where all's at.

In the midst of career and my so-called life, Nerissa and Jane's mom died. She died on a Friday morning, October 14, 2005. I remember. Lucy was in town, and she came to the hospital to ask me come home, to rest.

Shortly after we left, she died.