Charlie had figured the pay for all our cowboys and wranglers. When he had the total, he, Mr. John and I put a third into the pot for the wages. Each ...of us had agreed to give the men, Rosanna and Indira, a fifty dollar bonus and we split that total three ways and put that in too, before we paid them off.True to their word, Mr. Charlie paid for us a room at the hotel. The men, he put two to a room. For Indira and me, he even paid for our room. Enrico and Rosanna were in a room together.Before we. Now she had nocomplaints other than she had missed so much. I told her that itwouldn't have been the same. That they were not ready back then for sucha commitment. That fate wouldn't allow it back then. She was dyinglaughing with my serious explanation. Couldn't fault her for that.Michelle told mom what had happened to me and the next day she showed upto my shock and hugged me first off. We talked all day and she admittedthat she felt guilty that I was born a boy. That I never turned out. The clip was empty and there wasn't anything in the chamber either. I tried to hand the gun back to him but he asked me to put the clip back in and leave it on the table."I'll bet that was the gun they used to shoot Holly and that is how my finger prints got on the gun."Detective Barron asked Van Horn who the other men in the photos were."This one is Anthony Big Tony Lombardo. He's a small time hood with big time aspirations," Van Horn said ... He runs dope, numbers, and illegal gambling in. I guess being older takes away any suspicion of wrong doing, unlike when we were kids! For our part, we never allowed anyone to see that is was anything more than just what it appeared, a friendship! Roz was very quickly becoming someone I did not want to be away from for any length of time. She was the breath of new life I had needed for so long. Whenever we were together out of the sight of prying eyes, we were closer than any couple could ever be. We had fallen in love! Just to keep up.
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