We held each other, in that tender embrace, for a very long time....Returning to the present, I realized that I had a whole new day ahead of me with n...thing scheduled. Once again, I found myself with a large chunk of free time on my hands.I climbed out of bed and marveled at how refreshed I felt. I recalled the beating I had taken the night before, in the banya, and realized the benefits that had come from that experience. I quickly dressed and walked out to the edge of town to see what. Amma mulai kambu perithaaga viraithu irunthathu. En siru vayathil paal kuditha mulaiyil kai vaithu thadavinen, andru amma urangi vitargal. Adutha naal pudavaiyai agatri jakitil mulaiyai thadava aarambithen, amma ezhuthu kolave illai. Adutha naal jakit kokiyai kayati mulaiyai veliyil eduthen.Amma mulai kaambu pudaithu kondu irunthathu, amma mulaiyil vaai vaithu sappa aarambithen. Amma ezhunthu kondaal aanal ennai ethuvum ketka vilai, naa mulaiyai sappi konde irunthen. Amma moodil thunguvathu. . allowing her own feelings to take control. I’ve always (right up to the present time) thought that teachers who administer corporal punishment, do it because they personally get something out of it. I don’t believe there has ever been a teacher who has ever had to spank, strap, slipper, cane, birch, paddle (or use any other device) on an upturned bottom of either sex who has thought ‘Well just get this over and I can get on with marking those books!’ Miss (and I’ve just remembered her name). “As if I wasn’t?” I thought.She continued, “He’s good for me. We’re good together.”“That’s nice,” I said, probably leaking more bitterness than I should have. “So why are you here?” I tried to keep my voice neutral.Kristin blushed a pretty shade of pink and stared at her tea. She set the cup down and reached across my chest to hug me.“I’m so mean, using you like this, but I have to know,” she evinced some doubt.She had worked her way under my right arm. Her face looked up at me; her eyes were.