They brought missionaries who viewed nudity and sex as sins and the work of the devil. But who did the devil’s work? The Europeans stole their land,... seized their livelihoods, forever changed their way of life. They reduced the islanders to servitude and brought diseases that decimated their populations. Gauguin and Brel knew. They caught the spirit of this island paradise and saw the odious erosion wrought by their country’s missionaries and businessmen. I gaze at her picture. I still hold it. I made eye contact with my PA and let her know to give Misaki this.I was really starting to hate the Japanese work ethic, mostly because it was about to kill me. We didn’t wrap up until well after two in the morning. There were promises that we would get off early tomorrow and not resume filming until Sunday afternoon.Thursday December 1This morning, I skipped exercising in exchange for sleep. Lexi finally had to roust me out of bed so I would be on set on time. When I made it out to breakfast,. Yes, Karen had been with them all of their lives and had merely been in just over half of my life. However, they had their whole lives ahead of them while if I was lucky. I might have at most have another five to ten more years left before I was too old even to hope that I could find love again.Could Caryn be my last hope for love again, but if not, then would I be condemned to a life of being alone?I figured I would have four or five more years with Angela to be here at home, but maybe less. But that's also a digression...Once on the stage it was obvious I was going to win as the other two"Misses" were looking OK, but were nowhere near as glamorous as me and Iglided across the stage to answer my questions, then posed in the lineand adopted my position - which Mrs Thompson told me years later was so"beautifully precocious" that she almost fainted.Once the 'chase her' line was mentioned, I again glided off the stage,but this time to rapturous applause. Mrs Thompson was waiting to.