Her mother often said that Tikki must find her own way. She has been doing 
that most of her life, from her earliest days in Seoul and Shanghai, to her 
recent experiences in Seattle, and now to the present moment, here in 
Philadelphia. She came here in search of a man who used her. That man, in order 
to further his own plans, sought to have her killed. She wonders now if she will 
ever find him, and what she will do if she does.