Bruce I lost count of how many hours I waited on the first day until the total wait lasted two extra days, and still no one came. There wasn't even so much as a phone call, leading me to the simple conclusion that they didn't care about the way we handled things here. If anything, a strained rumor had reached my ears from Gabriela. "Yeah, I don't think anyone really wants to mess with you," she said. "Gee, I wonder why," Barry mumbled somewhere in the background. "I mean, it's not like your program..." she said in an American accent, but my mind had mostly been focused on something else. The thought of her had been living rent-free in my mind, unflattered and undisturbed. I needed to see her, and it wasn't as though I would forget — I just feared how much I needed to see that woman. "Ta

