Next came Jess Westertminster, the moneyed one of our group. Jess was descended from a long line of distinguished forebears. His great-great-great had crossed over from the old country on board the Mayflower and had been the guy who arranged to have the nation’s first Thanksgiving dinner, catered by the Toons the colonists found living here. For this Jess’s ancestor got his name in the history books. Another of Jess’s relatives had imported thousands of Toons from China to build the nation’s first transcontinental railroad. They became known as the Yellow Kids and won that relative a spot in
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