Then, I’ll take you first.It steps forward and I rise tall. It stops. Gazing intently at my eyes, it hangs its head and turns to leave. Then quickly...spins full circle. I’m expecting this, a rookie move. What I don’t expect is to see its face soften, dissolve and reform as my mother on her dying bed. My heart skips a beat, and in that instant a scaly tail quickly wraps around my ankle and starts moving up my leg, drawing me down. It starts panting and growing in size.The intense, shooting pain. "Manjula," Tony said, struggling to keep his voice calm. She looked up at him, then deferentially gazed at the carpet again."Manjula," Tony repeated. He grabbed her hands.It did not take long for the significance of that to dawn on her. He caressed her fingers gently. She looked at him in surprise and shock. He lifted his fingers to her face and wiped away her tears. He placed a hand on each of her cheeks.Gently, he pulled her to her feet and took her in his arms, just holding her, mutely,. I thought back to the last dozen years, fights, fights and more fights. Now I had a reason to fight. I was 19 years old, a judge had let me serve for two years or ... I was being given another chance now; a chance that could mean the very life of the family I would learn to love and cherish for the rest of my life.I had to rest my hands on Pixie's shoulder tops. She never lasted those three dances. After two she wanted to go home. Frank threw me a set of keys, "Your car is next to mine. Keep. Achanak tabhi sheetal ne karwat badly aur who uth gayi, maine jhat se apna hath sheetal ke pet par rakha. Sheetal ne mujhe kiss kiya aur fir woh soo gayi, uss raat maine aur kuch nehi kiya.Subah uth kar me jub bathroom me that oh sheetla ko dard hona suru huwa, maine aur komal ne jaldi se sheetla ko hospital le gaya. Hospital pahunchte hi doctor ne check up karke kaha ki operation karna padega. Sheetal ne ek sundar ladke ko janm diya. Ab me ek healthy sundar ladke ka baap tha. Din bhar hum yaha.