And we will invite you, if it happens! Do not assume anything!”We talked for another few minutes about school and work, and then said our goodbyes a...d hung up. I went back to the great room where we had been watching news reports about President Ferdinand Marcos fleeing the Philippines for exile in Hawaii.“Good riddance!” George pronounced. “He was such a crook! I can’t believe it took this long to get rid of him!”“I wouldn’t complain too much,” Elyse said. “It was peaceful.”“Unless your name. "I can't believe you would even ask such a thing!" Jessica began to cry now as well. "You will stay here with me, for heaven's sake! This is our home. Yours as well as mine. I love you and I don't ever want to hear you talk like that again!" She hugged me tighter to her body and began to run her fingers through my hair As our tears subsided, I noticed that, with the position of my head resting on her left breast, I was staring down her low cut gown. Staring at the beautiful round globe of her. I picked it up and sat back down on my bed.I opened the notebook."MASTER LIST" was written at the top of the first page. The next two and a half pages were a list of chores on the left, and their point value on the right. All the chores I did the day before were on there, as well as a host of new ones. Some of the chores, the ones marked with asterisks, could be done everyday. Things like washing dishes, doing the laundry or cooking dinner. The rest were chores that only needed doing. Narayan,’ quite true, even today I don’t speak our Tambrahm lingo outside of our home or only in close relatives circle, avvadhaen ellaa placelaeyum avaalodaey pakkaa thanjavoor Iyer bhashai Dhan pesuvaa ”( Now she speaks her typical Tanjore brahmin lingo everywhere.)Sriram,” Never thought you’re like this, I knew Brahmin girls were very conservative and staunch, but every line of you smacks that you are a Brahmin, really a big surprise.Gayathri “ Sriram you are too bad, had I known you were.