" He rushed upstairs again."Well!" His mother laughed. "I guess you'll be waiting in here." She led me to the living room with the game system and a g...ood array of games."Thank you." I remembered Kawai's interest in dueling and wondered if there might be a trend. "Do you play?" I asked her."I do." Her daughter said, but I ignored her for the moment."Oh, no! I don't have any skill for that." Do you play Go?"She paused and smiled. "I haven't in many years, but I used to be quite good." Excellent!". It looked as though she was being introduced to select men around the room. At first she was rather stiff in her greeting, but eventually she loosened up and became very animated and lighthearted with them despite being naked among them.One man placed a small box that looked very much like a ring box, but flatter and wider in her hand. It looked as though she was reluctant to take it and tried several times to give it back to her. At one point the maitre d’ forcefully placed the box in her. “That whole thing,” Calix explained. “Tamara. I didn’t think she liked me at all – I thought she was mad I didn’t bring ‘Roh-bair’ along.”Sophia just shook her head and laughed.“Guys are so clueless,” she crowed. “You miss the most obvious things. I told you. Octavia. Tamara. Even Julia. It was actually fun watching you wander around those three, clueless, as they worked to bait their traps. Octavia was so blatant about it, I figured you had to know about her – but you didn’t. Tamara was less. We spoke for a little while and I saw that she was taking some sod home and told her I could help her unload it and she agreed and gave me her address. I met her at her trailer house and helped her plant her sod around a tree and we went in for something to drink. It was a hot summer day and the cold water tasted good. Sindee was 60 and I was 52 and we had met and talked pretty nastily over the web for a couple of weeks, feeling each other out. She was about 5"4" with a slender build. She.