Miss. Betty had left his bangs long, only trimming off the split ends.Then put them in rollers and setting gel to create a horizontal hotdogbun like b...ngs. The rest of his hair had been back combed and teasedinto a big bouffant flipped up pageboy style. His mousey hair had alsobeen dyed raven black. While Miss. Betty worked another woman gave hima manicure and pedicure. His finger nails had half inch acrylicextensions and lacquered a bright scarlet red. She had also painted histoe nails to. Just one catch: they need me report to work in less than a month, Ph.D. certificate in hand. I had reluctantly decided that my only hope of writing a 200 page dissertation in such a short time was to seclude myself in my parent's cabin, away from the distractions of the holiday season.The truck shimmied and started to slide off to the right as I hit a deeper snowdrift, and I reluctantly slowed down again. For the first time, I admitted to myself that I was getting nervous about the snow. I. Then we got to go fresh.After we were done with breakfast, In our room, I asked Rani, should we try something again? And Rani didn’t say anything. She stood up from chair and said, ok and gave a naughty smile. Then in afternoon, we decided to have something light. That time, one movie was coming on TV – Happy New Year. Rohit was watching that. I was with Rani in our room. I asked Rani to wear a nighty and go and sit besides Rohit. She did same, she wore her deep cut nighty and went and sat on. “Well, I’m really happy for them. Now come on, one more stop, then we can go home and soak it all off.”The drive was a bit surreal. Lunch with Shannon and Colin had indeed been a blast, but it was also another stark reminder that things were going to be very different going forward. No more Quiet Mile, and no more sharing the darkroom with my friend.Soon we came to Gwen’s street and Lara pulled into an empty space a few doors down. I glanced at my sister as we walked up to the house with our.