Others weren’t so open to the idea of cutting leather or shovelling snow. Kobo was like that, as was Tonko, and Sygor. I had to take them aside and ...xplain to them the facts of life, which included that everyone worked in my cave! If I could carve wood to make bows and saddles, then they could shovel snow or tote in a pot of snow for the women when it was needed.The big problem was gender related. I won’t say that the Hilltop People were more liberal minded than the Horse People or the Plains. Puthagathai eduthu thambi unathu putham endu endru sonnal naan avalai kaamamaaga paarthu puthagathai vaangum pozhuthu avalin kaiyai thadavi vaanginen.Enathu kaama aasaiyai avaluku theriya paduthinen aanal aval amaithiyaaga irunthaal pinbu ennai manithu vidungal akka naan kai thavari ungal kolam meethu puthagathai potuvitten endru sonnen.Aval ennai aasaiyaaga paarthu vazhinthu kondu parava illai thambi endru sonnal. Pinbu naan thinamu avalai parka aarambithen avalum ennai parka aarambithaal. Nothing was ever good enough for her and I always suspected we dated only because we were the most popular people in our class. We stayed together through college resisting getting married, and even sex, until we both graduated and had good jobs. She was an illustrator for a major fashion magazine while I worked as a submission editor for a major publishing company.I went to work on my great novel, it's still on my computer somewhere. While she moved through her company like wildfire. Climbing. Luckily the only folks there who know me were the staff. Gianni the bartender just stared at me and said "Wow!". So with a fresh Cosmo in hand I filled him in on the details. Heck, he knows a lot about me already. So I end up getting propositioned. Gianni advises me to consider a young new friendly boyfriend, with a wink and a smile. "Too bad you're working." I say. His response was that he gets breaks. Well well, I have not had any attention on a week. I'm pondering should I or not? .