Grant Wellington, sitting at one of the tables near the lip of the stage was so close, he could see the outline of her face. She looked frightened, an... green, and he half wondered if she’d make it through her set. How his life had changed since he’d moved from his elite Philadelphia neighborhood where he was reared around a cloistered little circle of upper crust black families, and enrolled in Howard University for law-school. Though he was summering with his parents in New York, he couldn’t. But his excitement helped me to feel better about the situation. He also told me that he loved me and that since Mary was older now, he didn’t want her to also get pregnant so he wouldn’t be going inside her anymore. He would just touch and kiss her. I felt a little better about that as well although I would have liked him to stop with her altogether.The next few months went well then got a bit more difficult as I grew larger with my child. Sawyer stopped mounting me and began just having me. “Then wait for her to come to you.”“Yeah,” I sighed.September 16, 1988, Chicago, Illinois“I’m glad you liked my second-choice candidate,” Cindi said, as we sat drinking coffee at the Sheraton O’Hare on Friday morning.“He didn’t raise any red flags at all, and he seems like a really good guy. I just had really bad vibes from Brenda that turned out to be warranted. I got no such vibes from Ralph.”“We’re not having our business development meeting today, and I haven’t been in the office since. Soon Kiran too joined college. She became the center crush of our class. Everyone used to stare at her with lusty feelings. Once, Amir and Kartik told me that they have feelings for Kiran. I knew about their lust. So, I was not in favor of this. I didn’t want Kiran to get involved in such things. She was too young for any relationship, in my vision.I used to feel so lucky to have such hot and intelligent girls as my sisters. One day, there was an annual function in our campus. As Kavya di was.