After Linay quit, Frank Puleo was unable to keep a secretary for longer than six months.

The Cue is set on a cul-de-sac, off the Black Canyon highway, also known as I-17, not far from the intersection of 27th and Northern. A few blocks away is the Metro mall where I used to hang out after escaping from the group home. Of the kids at the mall I was the youngest which resulted in me getting nicknamed Chickadee, which I hated, so I was glad when someone shortened it to Chica, which is how I began to introduce myself.

Lynn Bryce had the unusual talent, bordering on a super power, of being able to sit chatting in a roomful of Japanese without triggering the hyper-self consciousness, the uneasy awareness of their Japaneseness when an outsider (gaijin) is in the room.