All of it about Ian."The show must go on," he tried being chipper."Fuck the show!" Miriam sneered. "I want my son." We'll come back tomorrow and every...hing will be all right," Gregory leaned down and kissed her cheek. "Now I have to go." And he left her standing alone on the sidewalk. Miriam felt a chill partly out of dispare and partly out of guilt for putting her son on the wrong train. She hurriedly caught a cab back to her place. She had to do the show that night but she didn't feel like. If anything I felt overdressed in yoga pants and acrop top.When we got to the studio, the reception was quite busy and we metNasrullah. I had expected to see her in her playboy bunny costume butinstead she was wearing a burqa.How did I know it was Nasrullah?She was wearing a name tag."Morning Nas, this is my sister Bea," Rita said."Wait, you're the Nasrullah in the playboy bunny costume?" I asked."Bea, I am a Muslim woman now." You mean, you weren't a Muslim woman before?" I was neither.". "There could still be some storms ahead," she said at last.Jim took the hint and decided to ease into the subject instead jump right in. He wished he could know what she was thinking."Maybe some small talk will draw her out."He unwrapped his cheeseburger and fries and stuck a straw into the plastic top of his milkshake cup."Sure turned out to be a nice day," he said again.Hildy didn't say anything, choosing to nibble at a French fry and at last she looked up at him."I'll bet you thought I was. " Huh! Whoa ... Whoa ... Whoa ... What are you talking about? I seemed to have missed something here, Sally."She leaned back, looking at me with the intense look I had come to recognize over the years as her way of silently telling me I was dumb and didn't know what was happening around me. She kept it up and in spite of myself, I started to think I had missed something she had seen and I hadn't. Then the next statement shocked me so bad my mouth was flapping in the wind like a fish gasping for.