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Our Gingerbread Man had quite definite ideas of what qualities he needed in his wife. The most important was that she had to be gay. The wealthy Italian contractor’s good- looking daughter fitted the bill. Her name was Maria, with dark eyes, dark hair and a suspicious disposition. An additional plus was that the family were Catholics. He had for some years fancied Catholicism, a religion where no would cast any aspersions on your sex life if you were a priest, or so he then thought. It also didn’t hurt that the Italian contractor’s signs were all over the building sites of Cockburn, a suburb south of the city of Perth, reiterating the importance of his catch. The family Cottesloe residence was also a plus as was their holiday cottage at Margaret River (a double storey with a lift for the grandparents who are no longer as young as they used to be). He becomes engaged to Maria, despite the dark looks directed at him from her now and then. What happened next was unexpected. She stayed by his side for a couple of months and then became skittish and -she ran away from him! To Hong Kong! Perhaps the idea of a gay woman marrying a gay man was not her idea of heaven. He suspected her parents may have had a hand in this as well. After all he was penniless and as we stated, came from a lower class of gingerbread while the prominent property developer, Maria’s father is an important man in the Perth community. From then on, his second criterion for woman to be marriageable material, was that the relatives of any woman he married must live as far away as possible from the happy couple. He has made a mistake but these were early days yet and he has not yet honed his craft.