I met Adolpho Leon through my high school friend Kikoy. He’s a bit of an oddball, Kikoy had mentioned, but his spare room’s been vacant for a while and it should be going for a good rate. The room was on the second floor of a modest home on Baker Street in the middle of Little Manila in Los Angeles. Adolpho and I would each have our own rooms on the second floor while the Filipina landlady Marta had her own room on the first.