I am Mr. Tam the lawyer for Mr. Reed and Ms. Tokugawa." Tokugawa? You mean Yui Reed?" I inquire."No, Ms. Yui Tokugawa, your brother's wife," Mr. Tam r...eplies. "Come inside please, there are circumstances that dictate a clear understanding of the will."Mr. Tam continues, “You probably do not know that Tokugawa is the name of a Samurai clan. Ms. Yui is the only child born to the family. There are no suitable spouses in Japan. Rather than live alone, Ms. Yui did the only thing that would save the. Despite feeling a little insecureabout what he was doing to his friend, the sight of his friend's faceappearing like a mask from the inside eased Gordon's mind a little as hetold himself that he was just putting on a Halloween costume. With aquick pull, he slid his face in through the back of Scott's neck and intohis face, immediately feeling the empty features of the face lining upawkwardly with his own. Gordon reached up and readjusted the eyes so thathe could see. The nose seemed to work. I heard things that myuncles and male cousins would never have told me.January 1st 2013We are back in Exeter now, it is late. I think that I have recovered frommy hangover, but I am still processing what happened last night. We bothdrank too much and did not get back to Jen's parents until the earlyhours.It was Jen's idea that we went as French maids. I thought the idea wasfine until I realised what she meant. The outfit consisted of high heels,two inch in my case, excruciating, fish net tights. His school growing up was a one room schoolhouse, until he got to highschool. Highschool had not been fun for the two years he had of it. His one room school had taught him to sight read, that is to memorize what every word he learned looked like. He hadn’t learned many in that environment.Today that’s inconceivable. Today we learn phonics, and sounding out words. Highschool taught Dad he had missed out on a big leg up on education. So he quit school when his dad asked him to work full time on.
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