Just be yourself. Concentrate on pleasing them, instead of yourself. That's what I've always done with your mother. I promise you they'll be hanging ...ll over you when the three of you come for breakfast in the morning. And all you do to make them happy will come back to you when they show you how much they appreciate it." Thanks, Dad," Jeremy quietly said just before Van reached the door.Van just grinned back at his son for a second, then went on out.A couple of minutes later, there was a rap. I was pregnant with our first by 19. We were young, but we had each other and had known each other since middle school. Donald was reasonably smart and more importantly he was steady. He studied early and late, he got straight A's, and he went for a financial career after high school and graduated a year early. Our parents supported us until he graduated, and Donald went to work for the local grocery mega-chain. It was a reasonable plan, and fortune favored us. It worked. We were light years. Pinbu vanitha en kaathil nan pengal kazhivaraiku selugiren en pine vaa endru solli vitu sendraal. Naanum avalin pine sendren aanal yaarukum santhegam vara villai anaivarum ulasamaaga pesi kondu irunthaargal.Naan vanitha pine sendren appozhuthu yentha penum athigamaaga pengal toilet kul varamal irunthaargal.Naan ule sendrathu oru toilet kul iruvarum sendru kathavai thapol potu ithazhil mutham koduthu sappa aarambithom. Iruvarum irukamaaga kati pidithu mutham koduthom pinbu naan vaijanthiyin. I tried to copy her as well, keeping my elbow close tomy waist and moving my hand from side to side rather than up and down,but Lisa nudged me. "Left hand," she hissed."Why?" I whispered back."You'll be carrying a parasol in your right hand," she said.Of course I remembered. Good lord, how could I forget? And of courseit would be lavender and trimmed with still more copious ruffling. Ipressed my satin-covered legs together underneath my hoopskirt andshuddered.And waved."I want to see.