Kalluri pennin peyar vithya vayathu 19 aagi irunthathu, aval en tuitionil sernthu padithu vanthaal, avaluku kanaku padam kadinamaaga irukirathu endru ...oli konde irupaal. Naan avalidam pesi pazhaga aarambithen. Aval meethu muthal muthalil entha kaama ennamum vara villai, aanal oru naal kama padam paarthu kondu irunthen. Antha kama padathil tuition centreil kaamam seithu kondu irpathu pondru oru padam paarthen. Antha padathai paarthathu muthal irunthu enaku vithya meethu kaama aasai vara. I was a chemical engineer for a large plant outside of town, but there were three of us in that particular job, so there were people who could pick up the slack. I sat there, wondering what I was going to do with the rest of my life. I’d pictured that life including kids and Beth and a future of us retiring to Florida and leaving the house in the hands of the ... kids we’d never have now.I hadn’t come to any conclusions when the need to use the bathroom forced me out of my sanctuary. I went to. ???? ?Ok Anna, Thanks.????? ?Come over here and stand in front ofme.?? She demanded and Mandy respondedimmediately.? ?Are you wearing the samecut-offs and t-shirt that you wore Wednesday, and Thursday??? She plucked a tiny stain on the pink front ofthe short, cropped sleeveless top.? ???? ?Y-yes,? Mandy bowed her head.? Anna gently lifted Mandy?s chin to look intoher brown eyes. ???? ?Take them off.????? ?Right here??Mandy looked around the living room.? Shewas standing in the middle of the. ”Owen started crying.Lauren rushed over and hugged him. “Who was Brett? A friend?”“He’s the guy who punched me in the face,” Owen said. Raymond frowned, Owen’s black eye was mostly recovered but it’d be a few days more before it was fully healed up. “He’s the one ... He took the bullet for me, that’s why it only got me in the arm.”“He’s a fucking hero,” Raymond understood. “Why’d he deck you?”“He, was, um...” Owen quietly muttered.“I’ll leave you to your conversation,” the nurse said.“Janice?”.