His wife watched, holding their fourth baby, just 8 weeks old, while he handed over his first, 5 years old. I gave her $4,600, cash, and she smiled. I thought he might cry.
No slave trade, no illicit adoption. I just got his 2002 black Bonneville America with 762 miles on it. He kept trying to tell me all the problems, as if dirty chrome was somehow fatal, in the forlorn hope that I would back out of the deal. I didn't.
I am a happy man.
