She was a quick witted and extremely nimble girl with lightning reflexes that had made her unbeatable in the ring. But she had suffered the impact of ...ountless flying chips. In no time at all she had as many tiny little scars on the front of her body as she had big ugly ones on her back. Early on she had appreciated how important it was not to get any chips in the eye and kept hers narrowed to tiny slits.In any sensibly run outfit all the women would be wearing goggles and heavy reinforced. Daily she used to come to me in a free time and we used to talk for an hour everyday. My friends got some jealous to see us, but I told them that we are just friends and more over she is a senior to me. As time passed my first semester was completed and I got 20 days holidays. At that time her semester also over and got 20 days holidays. We used to chat daily in our college days. In these holidays we were chatting more time in a day. She used to ask me what are you doing tej . I forgot to tell. .. in fact so insignificant, I’m glad of the break.”“I just thought I’d let you know ... today’s the day ... I’ll have what’s owed to you by this evening, and our bird will have no use for it.” Cleo was careful in her choice of words, as the women always were when engaging in phone conversations, aware of the possibility of the gum chewing girls at the exchange listening in. The pleasured sigh from Lana, told her she’d got the message, nice and clearly.“Oh that’s marvellous news my dear .... ‘There were so many worthless dinars laying around that I could have paved the street with them. We found 16 billion dollars in American money too, cash, stacked neatly and wrapped in plastic as if just received from the world’s biggest drug deal. It’s funny that Saddam didn’t trust his own economy enough to buy dinars instead of dollars. I still don’t know why he just didn’t take his treasure troves of American money and leave his country. A dozen third world countries would have welcomed him.