He gets to home improvement, encounters animal shelter via trips to hardware store, finally stops in, meets Her - name TBD - leaves with dogs and her card, Chemistry having been introduced. He is back to work, adds doghouse.
Comes into an auto mechanic job in town when he visits a customize shop in El Paso to inquire about “chopping” the Suburban. He meets her again when he visits the shelter with the dogs. Re his job, re her car problem. She brings it in. He makes diagnosis, it’ll be a couple days. I’ll call you, has her card. She leaves.
She goes home, we meet Her Son, name YBD, soon to turn 17, trending toward delinquency halfway through his junior year of high school. They arrived in July, having left TBD, relocation informed in part by the pending parole-from-prison hearing in or near that state of the boy’s father, her ex, on the verge of getting out after eight years for manslaughter
We meet Him, name TBD, nearing his at-bat in a prison yard softball game.
to be comtinued.
