Chapter 1 The comfort-class taxi smoothly turned left, and I stared wide-eyed at the familiar sprawl of my home city. My aunt Mary, upon hearing I was finally going on my long-awaited vacation, started calling nonstop, begging me to look after her house and the garden she’d planted. Her daughter-in-law had given birth to a baby boy two weeks ago, and Mary busied herself teaching her how to wash diapers and bathe an infant...