Muh haath poonchne ke baad meri saas ne ek jhatke se apni saree ka pallu apne gadraaye hue badan se ek dum alag kar diya aur unki bade bade chuche bil...ul meri nazaro ke saamne thea, baaki ki saare abhi bhi zameen par padi thi aur meri saas mere taraf hi muh karke khadi hui thi, main aage aur bhi dekhna chahta tha, tabhi meri saas ne apni puri saree apne badan se alag kar daali, aur ye sab dekhkar to mere mann me ek alag hi hulchal hoone lagi, meri saas ab sirf red colour ke blouse aur light. When Tom had finally composed himself and Suki had gotten her head around this as well, we all sat and Tom told us of his time in Japan, and then Suki filled in what happened afterwards. Tom was broken up that Suki and her mother had had such a hard time of it, and very sad to learn of Matsuni's passing. We all talked and listened to the various stories for a few hours until it started getting late. With all the pieces finally in place, Mom and Tom had to head on back home to Bridgeport. Waiting till it was over might have made the time in Chicago shorter, and a whole lot less frustrating, but it would have delayed my arrival home and that I could not do.As traffic crawled, I drank my fifth Dr. Pepper in eighty miles, and prayed that traffic would open up before my overworked bladder burst. Well, I'd stop once I got past Gary, empty the reservoir, and stock up on more cold caffeine.***Central Indiana is FLAT. Dull, flat and boring. Normally this just meant that I could zip. Some could not.It needed more work. But the funding ran out, and Melody had to look for another job. Jobs in the field of genetic research were few and far between, precisely because funding was so difficult to procure.She hopped from one job to another in genetics, before the need for something more stable was needed, lest she die of anxiety. Stem cell research was hiring, if not at great wages.Now it wasn’t anxiety over whether or not her lab would still be there when she went to work the.