
When I was 16 I lived in a small mid-western town with my mom. My father had died when I was 5 and my mom had never remarried or had any other kids. I kept myself busy with a paper route, the Internet and computer games. Mom worked two jobs and I spent a lot of the time on my own.
One day the elderly couple next door moved out and put their house up for sale. It wasn’t long before it sold though. The new owner was a single guy about 26 yrs old named Gary, and he worked from home developing web sites. Because I was home alone often, I soon met my neighbor and we became computer geek buddies. He showed me lots of cool things on the computer and I learned a lot. I tried to find out more about his web sites, but he kept changing the subject. I figured it had to be some kind of secret business deal that no one was supposed to know about or a trade secret or something and let it go at that. I did notice, however, that he never seemed to go out on dates. I asked him about this and he said that he had recently gotten divorced and wasn’t ready for that yet.



















