The other owner had found out and was threatening to dissolve the company, again John said he had smoothed things over but they all had to pull togeth...r to make the other man happy. Sighing I shook my head just like John to make himself out to be the hero. Mercifully the meeting drew to a close, Ray was headed back to his desk when he felt rather than heard a cry for help. It was the Chorton who had helped him on the planet, again going to the bathroom Ray sat, closed his eyes, and was there. I wondered how my mom managed to make this money.One day our college union called off for a sudden strike in the college. I was forced to go home. Before going home I tried to call my mother. But she was in the class and was unable to take the phone. I reached home in the evening. When I reached home I saw a new male chappal. I had stepped in cow-dung nearby. So I went to the backside of home for washing.I heard a laugh. So I looked through the closed window. I was shocked!!!. I saw the shadow. Women tend to display a wee bit of jealousy around me. And I don’t know why. I’m not a threat to them! In all of my life, only one person has seen me for something other than a sex object or menace. Only one person has ever seen me for… me. And that, of course, was Riya. In high school, we were inseparable. But then she deserted me and left Baltimore for Cambridge. Oh, gosh, I was crushed. I ran right out and joined some new-fangled church… I guess it was really a cult. Riya saved me, actually. Her first words, “I think we ruined my makeup.” We both burst into laughter!Then I saw her, actually saw her. This was the most beautiful woman in the world. I’m not just saying that because she was my wife, or that I’d missed her so much, but because she was. She was more beautiful than I’d ever seen her. Her skin was bronzed from the Caribbean sun, her fabulous hair was a beautiful golden blonde with curled tendrils on each side of her face, and her dress…how do I describe the dress she was.