History Friend's enthusiasm dies On a bright morning in May, the tropical sun is just beginning to dry the heavy dew off the palm fronds. Sellers stands in what someday will be her living room, but for now remains a patch of jungle with the vegetation hacked away. The first floor will be an artist's studio, the second floor a bedroom. A deck in the back will look out on a towering fig tree. And this will be my vegetable garden.
Time moves slowly, but it is moving.
Gogui has been convicted of murder in juvenile court and sentenced to 15 years in prison, and Cisneros is awaiting trial. Police know the third suspect, but he's not been arrested. Sellers has little enthusiasm remaining for the home she planned to build, but no will to stop it. Sometimes I feel like I'm 12 years old. Everything else I can conceive of is a step backward.