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A mature Chinese lady finds a friend

A little story from Sentorino, Texas (4)
Mark, native son of Sentorino, returning from Iraq, is welcomed home most warmly. / (Reviews)

Prior to the Civil War in America there existed slave owners that took their Mulato, Quadroon and Octagoon slave half-sisters as mistresses in New Orleans. The Quadroons Ball was a major social event. A tradition where the father took his half-sister as a mistress and his sons took her daughters sired by his father as their mistress and the grandson recieved the next generation of fine yellow girls as his prize.

The Yellowstone caldera enthusiastically blows up, taking several states with it. An out-of-luck ex-navy man in Amarillo steps forward to help rebuild a devestated city and finds a new life in the process.