I hope to have a crew of12 or more, working both sides at the same time. And it will only cost$10,000 for supplies. The men will be donating their tim...e. If you want,then we can get top quality shingles for $13,000."The deacon slumped down on a railing. "This is all incredible. For yearsI have scrambled to find money to keep this place going, and in a monthyou come in and we are awash with the stuff." It's not me, sir," Gary said. "It's the painting. It's bringing peoplein to pray and some are. A singlebusiness sized envelope addressed to Joan Clara Johnson. I sat thereholding the envelope in front of me. My hands were actually shaking inanticipation. I ripped the envelope to shreds and marveled at the blueplastic card inside with my name embossed in plastic.I felt absolutely giddy! The bank, at least, recognized me as Joan ClaraJohnson. Hmmm? JC Johnson? Jesus Christ? It made no sense at all but Iwas truly overwhelmed. Visions of purchases danced in my head. I hadoriginally planned. This brings us to one of the pivotal characters of the story, Haiyo Kiki.Kiki was at this point in her life a 13-year-old Witch, who now had to undertake her "Year of Proving" and live away from home for the first time. She settled in the city of Koriko where she made several good friends including her future boyfriend and then husband Haiyo Tombo, an aspiring Aviation Engineer/Inventor. Many adventures followed which towards the end of the summer resulted in Kiki becoming a reluctant. ”“How the FUCK do you do that? Does ANYTHING faze you?”“Bad Joyce did,” I smirked. “But I got over it pretty quickly and WOW!”“Seventeen fucking years later and you’re STILL incorrigible!”“Damn straight!” I grinned. “Are we good?”“I got it out of my system when you were at the house. It was just all that history, you know?”“Oh, I know. I’ve had to deal with it myself.”“And you STILL haven’t taken my advice.”“Given that I married two women, it’s kind of tough to find one woman and stick to.