The China market is finally panning out, thanks to the voracious consumerism of the middle class.
His father came out in '49 with the gold rush crowd, panned out a good pile, and then, liking the life—San Francisco was a gay little burg those days—opened one of the crack gambling houses down on the Old Plaza.
Many kids who run away from unhappy homes discover they've jumped out of the frying pan and into the fire.