" You mean, if I weren't your daughter, you might want to, you know, sort of touch my boobs and stuff?" Well, since you put it like that, yes. What I ...eant was that just because I'm your father doesn't stop me from having a natural physical response when I look at you, or feel you next to me." Physical response?" Well, yes. Since we're being so open and honest with each other, as we've always been, what I'm saying is that I sometimes... well, get an erection from your nearness."The direction. Amma alaipil dress mathamal thungi vital. Abu amma mulaiai sapi konde thunginan. Avan vaiel amma kambu irunthathu. Nan amma dress eduthu hallil poten. Ammaku vera dress ule ilai. 30 min aparam abu elunthu vanthan. Avanum nanum pesi kindu irunthom. Amma elunthirikum satham ketathum na abuvai bathroom ku poga sonnen. Amma bedsheetai kati kondu veleie vanthal. Enai parthu sirithal nanum sirithen. Apothu parthu driver vara. Ammaku driver vanakam vaithan. Amma driver munnal porvai matum kati kondu. This brings it all back. That's why the bastards sent you down here. You took it so bravely for two years and never cracked up, but they still want to break you. But you won't be broken - will you, my brave and lovely Lisa? Try to pull yourself together! It's only for a short time! Then we go up into the fresh air and you won't be coming back down here - ever!" Until next month's flogging!" I said never, Lisa. You won't be going through all this again. That is a promise! It took me by surprise. We spent the next hour or so, talking and together we consumed the bottle of wine. Gary got a little gabby and frisky with the two glasses of wine he had. I could feel myself becoming slightly light headed from my third glass; usually my limit is two. It was after 10:30 p.m., when I declared it was time for ‘lights out’; we needed our sleep. We climbed under the covers, each staying on our own side of the bed in the eerie silence of the darkness. Then the enormity of my father’s stroke, and his.