It was my first time visiting Ann. She suggested we stop by her place to play after school, and we headed to their big, even very big house, where several generations of this well-known family in the city lived. The thing is, Ann’s grandfather, Richard S., was a famous writer. He wrote several books about fascinating adventures in exotic countries, which I read when I was in the first grade and dreamed about those stories for about two years, plotting expedition routes and imagining myself..