The two exceptions in her life were her baby and her mother. Actually, she had hated her mother for quite a while after the rapes - hated her for not ...topping the rapes. It took almost until Cy was born for her to realize that there was nothing that Naomi could have done to stop it. Realizing that they were co-sufferers brought mother and daughter very close by the birth.As she got older, Rachel was aware enough to appreciate the hell it must have been for Naomi to see her husband neglect her. ‘Hi, um, can I help you, Cameron?’ she replied. ‘Ummm, no, I just wanted to say hey.’ FACEPALM. ‘Aha, well, okay then. See you soon, yeah?’ I didn’t know what to say after she said that. I didn’t want to say anymore, then she pretended to trip and rubbed up against my side, her hand catching on my trouser pocket. Thankfully, I wasn’t pantsed. But something seemed a bit fishy about it… After classes, I went back to the dorms to see Bradley waiting impatiently outside the door. ‘You took the only. But you see, my husband, he is always so busy he lets me have these times away from him, do you think that strange?’ I didn’t know how to respond to that. I could hardly say, ‘If I was your husband I don’t think I’d ever be out of your bed, let alone let you go off on your own.’ As I paused trying to decide what to say she went on, ‘I must introduce myself, my name is Amrah Mustafic. Now you must tell me your name.’ ‘Oh…er…I’m Anthony Essex…er…Tony.’ ‘Tony…Tony,’ she spoke my name to sound. I felt that I was morally superior to all those women who wanted, and had, their two point six children. The fact that I, honestly, did not look my age facilitated me in this delusion. The fact that I have had no illnesses beyond the occasional cold led me to believe that I had time and good genes on my side. Well, guess what, I was wrong about all of those things. I decided one day, about two years ago, to eschew the Nazarite vow that I made as a child (fodder for another essay I suppose) and.