Phat

For the past several years I have talked about Phat or  Pat who works at the Lila's massage and whom I see at least once a week.  Meeting a woman like Phat and thinking how fate or karma works to put us in one place or another.  I am reasonably smart but she is very smart and much ore motivated than myself.  She is from a farm family in the ChaingRai area...her father now has had heart surgery and is 63 as is her mother.  Her father is not able to work the farm and so she helps when she can.  Her mom and her daughter live there for a few more weeks when her daughter will come to ChaingMai.  She moved here when she was 18ish and started to go to college and got a job in a bakery.  She learned accounting and did books and the bakery but was not able to make ends meet...so when the mother of her friend whom she was staying with offered her an "opportunity in sales" she thought why not.   The product was drugs and while she did sell, she was home watching tv when the bust occurred.  There was a flury of accusations and in the end...the mother got 33 hrs and Phat got six and served 4.5.   She has one more year to report annually.  While in prison, she because certified in flower arrangement, massage anatomy, massage, oil massage, facials  and basic business.  She can do nails but does not feel confident.  She has been at lili for enough years to be responsible for opening the shop and doing some books.   She has a scooter, and apartment and has made application for her daughter to go to a school near the shop.  She goes to work at 8 and leaves at 8 ...six days a week....  The number of kids that I worked with that stay out of the system are few... Phat tells me that once they start at Lili....they stay and get their act together.    Where would I be??? like to think there..but... maybe not....   Phat is a friend on Facebook if Cheryl and/or Kim want to give her a shout....she will be 40 in August...my mother's birthday..the 13th....