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hour. He thrived under the sense of structure that they provided. He often spent the weekends with Terry shooting guns on the property or eagerly pulling apart and reassembling a piece of vineyard machinery.
    His farm boy existence ended at the age of twelve, when Tareq was sent away to boarding school at the Randolph-Macon Academy, a college-prep military school in nearby Front Royal, Virginia. He is remembered there as a student who made good grades, but the place was important to him in the larger scheme of things, because that’s where he met his lifelong pal, Gregory.
    Gregory is the child of a well established and wealthy Virginia family and is now an accomplished computer software executive who lives in the DC suburbs with his wife and three children. He smiles broadly remembering their carefree youth. He’s a plainspoken man with his feet solidly planted on the ground.
    “During school breaks we’d all go to Tareq’s house and party. It was always a lot of fun—just to be away from school,” Gregory recalled with a big grin and a glance over at his buddy.
    Tareq finished the thought, “My parents wouldn’t be home and we’d go stay there a few days. I remember a lot of Sunkist Coolers. We had a blast every time we went.” No parents, no rules and no worries. Tareq developed into a young man who grabbed life with gusto; no one had ever told him he couldn’t.
    In interviews, Tareq has sadly admitted that he was never very close with his mother. He describes Corinne Salahi as a stern and unaffectionate woman who was mostly absent from his daily life. His image of her is a woman with constant monetary concerns. Tareq says it was he and his father who shared so much, especially their mutual passion for the vines and the product they created.
    Dirgham was a self-taught vineyard owner and winemaker, and while he dreamed of expanding the Oasis property, he also understood his limitations. His hopes for the future were wrapped up in his youngest son, who showed a true interest and craving to learn the craft. It was decided Tareq would attend the University of California, Davis and enroll in the famed Viticulture and Enology Department so he could learn the real business of winemaking. The plan was for Tareq to return to Oasis upon graduation, following a stint working in California’s famous Napa Valley Wine Country. He embraced all of it, and also did a brief tour of Australia’s wine industry before heading home to Virginia in 1994, filled with youthful drive and ambitious dreams.
    Tareq says his father had always promised him that in return for all of his work and loyalty; someday Dirgham would sell Oasis to him, outright, for one dollar.
    The most useful lesson Tareq took from his education was that many people in business focus entirely upon the completion and delivery of their products, but the truly successful ones realize, if they can find ways to improve their whole industry, the results lift everyone up and the benefits can be immense. He came home with big plans for his little corner of the world.
    Tareq played as hard as he worked after his return to Oasis. He got right back in with the Virginia polo playing crowd, which in the 1996-97 season included Susan Cummings, the daughter of a billionaire arms dealer with a 350 acre estate in nearby Warrenton. Cummings murdered her Argentinean boyfriend, polo aficionado Roberto Villegas, in her home on the morning of September 7, 1997, while he ate breakfast.
    The Salahis feared Tareq would have to testify at her trial, because prosecutors believed the couple’s final, fatal argument might have been sparked by Villegas’ sale of one of Susan’s horses to Tareq. The Salahis’ budding wine business was not yet strong enough to survive a public scandal, so they were relieved when the heiress’s legal team used the domestic abuse/self-defense strategy. The jury found Susan Cummings guilty of voluntary manslaughter. The heiress was sentenced to serve just 60