Kanavan veetil iruka matar endru solli irunthal, manai 11.30 aanathu nan aval veetirku sendren sendrathum aval vaa dinesh ulle va endru azhaithal. Naa... ulle sendrathum kathavai thapal potal, en pine vaa endral.Naanum pine sendren appozhuthu avalin suuthai paarthen athu perithaaga virithu irunthathu. Aval pinne sendren padukai araiku azhaithu sendral, naan ule sendrathum antha kathavaiyum sathi thapal potal. Iruvarin mugathilum kaamam vazhinthathu, akka en arugil vanthal nan aval kangalai utru. Always!”“Oh! I’m sorry. I mean we never sat down to talk about that time of the month before. I assumed that you didn’t have periods when you said that you couldn’t get pregnant.”“I never said that!” Lynn looked at me very calmly.“Yes, you did.”“Men! Selective hearing at its best!” Lynn was rolling her eyes.“That IS what you said.”“NO it is not!” Lynn was adamant.“I said that the doctor said that it would be a miracle if I got pregnant. Not that I could not, but that the chances were huge that. I'm glad I don't have to." Can we talk about something else?" They dredged up the car. The propeller cuts passed before and after the seat." I noticed." I'll bet." Then I was out of the car. The prop wash bounced me along the bottom. I saw something shiny and picked it up."Oh, brother."It was this watch." She held it out for my inspection.A simple gold pocket watch, abet a quality make. French. Revolutionary period. A decimal time, dumb quarter, repeater antique pocket watch by Regnauld a. She did not know what house, and in all actuality, a reality she did not wish to admit to herself, she was not even sure it was Hannisburg, but she knew it was better than what she had come from. It was not until this newly found rapture that she could once again feel the burning scars in her torso surge through her body, and she cramped down reflexively.-----And that's when she noticed it. The moisture whelming over her eyes had faintly cleared her vision, and from the corner of her eye there.