Atobani tee ghetlee ani paach minitat ghoroo lagle. Atya uthli.Mee patkan bed var javoon padlo ani diva malavla. Atya madhla darvaja dhakloon aat ali ...ni darachi kadi lavli. Tee ajoon blouse ani parkaratach hoti. Yetana tine apla gown anla hota. Atya palangavar basli ani bed lamp lavla. Mee ghabarlo ani mhanalo, ‘Aga, diva kashala? Konala kalel na…’ Atya mhanali, ‘Kunala kalnar? Gharat apan tighech ahot. He tar paar jhople ahet, jhopechi goli ghevoon. Ata te sakal shivay uthnar nahit. Nehmi. Her eyes had never seen such a large crowd of young people. She became immediately entranced by a group of three girls jogging; they were sporting red shorts and shirts with the university emblem. Her neck almost snapped as she followed their trail with rapturous eyes. It was the initiation to a dream that she had contemplated for the longest time; yet, it was only the mere beginning of her adventurous breakthroughs. As she was dropped in front of a tall brick building, she glanced at the. Then the questions began. It started out with where was everybody. I had the record of our explorations of the fast-moving star systems played back. Next it asked how did we get there. I spent a couple days creating an illustrated and animated introduction to the slipstream drive as well as the equipment involved and the powering up and powering down of a slipstream drive. Then I tacked on the field equations for both the reactionless drive and the slipstream drive. When I had that played the. Miss Pattison liked us to sit with one boy and one girl at each double desk for some reason. I asked her about it once after class last year expecting her to say it was something to do with controlling the behaviour in a class or something but instead, she told me that because the different sexes looked at literature from different angles and putting them together gave a more balanced picture. Then she laughed and said that if she could play matchmaker too it was a bonus.I was one of the first.