Gregory Pereira

You know, I got used to ironing my stuff.

And I'm thinking about, I can't do this.

You know, it was nice knowing her, but when we talked...

In the background, there was such laughter, laughter I've never heard before.

I remember dancing with my mother, and that was the last time we ever danced in 1967.

We never danced again, and that magic feeling was dead.

I heard all that beautiful laughter in the background.

I said, wow, maybe there's something there for me too.

And she says, you know, are we still going out on a date?

And I was very...

I was very thrilled because of the laughter in the background.

Anyway, she says, on the date, we go on a date, and she says, I'm gonna set up a time for you to meet my children.

Okay, well, we'll work that out, okay.

So the kids had another way of meeting me.

Because at my job, one of my coworkers came, ghost-faced and scared, and said, listen, there's some thugs outside waiting for you.

And I said, who?

And I confront stuff.

So I went outside, and there was these two young men across the street in the park, one with his hat cocked to the side.

He was about 18 years old.

The other one had a headband down low with a pit bull stare.