Thanks for the info. It's a little weird to find out only recently that Frank, Ronnie, and another guy named Todd, are all from Dayton, Ohio, lived in the DR, knew my brother--knew lots of other people who knew my brother (except for Todd), and yet we didn't know each other.
All three men also married Dominican women and traveled to the island a lot, and yet, i can't recall meeting any of them while i was living in the DR and working on the north coast. I'm certain that our paths must have crossed at O'Shay's--it certainly seems likely that it would have--we knew a lot of the same people on the north coast, but we never found out that we were all from the same small town. Until recently, Frank wasn't even aware that i was the younger brother of Papin.
Anyway, it looks like i got enough information for that particular chapter in my book, but its always interesting to find out how truly small the world really is.
