When Mildred Bonner had come from the back of the store through a curtain and walked out to meet the five new customers with a big smile. She saw the ...ragged young boys hanging back to one side. They each had a cloth hat in their hands and were wadding and twisting them as they looked uncertain of where they were and what they were doing here.“What can I do for you young men today?” She had asked as she walked out from behind the long wooden counter in back of the store.“Well Ma’am, we’ve come. Otherwise there wont be any food to eat. By the way what do you like?’ She sat up as I opened the fridge. It was as empty as a desert and half as appetizing. I opened the freezer and there was some vanilla ice cream. Looking at the back of the freezer burn I dug out a tv dinner. I plopped it in the microwave and switched it on. Foraging through the cupboards I found the coffee mix. I looked to the coffee maker only to find it dirty. Looks like I need to do dishes when I get home. I guess ill. A door was unlocked and I was led into a simply, but comfortably furnished bedroom. Apart from a large double bed with an iron frame, there was a bedside cabinet, an easy chair and a low coffee table. A number of books and magazines were scattered around the room. A half-open door from the bedroom revealed an en-suite bathroom. The room was tightly shuttered from the outside, giving no indication if it was night or day, and a lamp on the bedside cabinet provided the only illumination. Once the. What we saw instead were rows and row of pine trees."If I wanted to see pine trees, I would have stayed home," I stated."I sure hope the scenery changes," I remember my companion replying. I could see the disappointment on her face.We continued driving and eventually spotted a sign that pointed toward a beach. We followed the sign until we saw a causeway that led out to a small island that was covered in sand. It was the vegetation on the island that first caught our attention. There stood the.