I was surprised beyond belief. It just came and came. The tears flooded down my face as my mother knocked on my door and became alarmed as she saw me....‘What is it?!’ she asked me her voice practically shrieking ‘Mother I do not know…..,’ it still continued. ‘Well sit here and let me get some tissue,’ she got up and retrieved it from the nightstand next to the bed we sat on. It continued for several minutes like this. There was nothing I could do to stop it. Suddenly, I began to feel dizzy and. .. my stage name." Suddenly, her face fell. "Oh, my God! I can't quit. At least, not now. Mrs. Clifford, I got carried away. If you've heard of a hand-to-mouth existence, I'm it. I can't quit until I start work, and I'm not sure I can even then."The girl was sitting on the sofa. Ali pulled up a chair and said, "Why not tell me about it. First, how much are we going to be paying you?"Connie reddened. "I don't know, Mrs. Clifford. You and I were supposed to talk about that."It was Ali's turn to. He put another tape in, but I noticed that he didn't put the first tape back with the rest and instead put it in the bottom drawer of the entertainment cabinet. To say my curiosity was aroused would be an understatement because in the fraction of a second that the first tape was on the screen I would swear I saw Katrina.I made sure that I was the last one to leave and as soon as Doug was out of the room I grabbed the tape and put it in my coat pocket. Since we only lived four blocks from Doug I. She’d grown up hearing stories of the rakshasa - the evil gods of Hindu mythology that she definitely didn’t believe in as a modern, rational Indian woman. As she did, the cue card in front of her changed and she followed along, “So Tom, you’re here to make a big announcement about Too Much Love, the novel I’ve just discovered I’ve been living in?”Tom faced out into the audience. On the monitor, his eyes had caught the camera so that it looked like he was talking directly to each person.