Nobody knew if that was true or not, because nobody would allow a thirteen-year-old girl to follow that path to where it would logically end.What made...things different in this situation was that Lacey was no thirteen-year-old girl. She might have the experience of a teen, but she had the options of an adult. She wanted to be his girlfriend. She still didn’t embrace all the things that usually entailed, but she wanted to keep taking tentative steps down that path.When she came out, she was. ”“Where’s what?”“The computer.”“What computer?”“The computer you do your bookkeeping on.”“Ed looked at me and mimicking the Mexicans in the movie Treasure of the Sierra Madre said.“Computer? We don’t need no stinking computer.”Then he pulled a large olive green binder from a file cabinet and sort of cleared a place on the desk for it.“You do realize this 2013 don’t you? I’m almost thirty years old and I have never seen one of these in actual use. I’ve seen pictures of them, but not the real. Tu sandip ko kuch bhi mat bolana ye sab muje nahi karna. Ye sinke mera bhi mud off ho gaya. Aur aunty bola chalo me chalta hu. Fir aunty boli naraz kyo hota hai. Me hu na me kuch kartu hu. To khush huva aur ghar pe aagaya. Aur priya aunty k bare me soch ne laga. Dosto me uske bere bata na to bhul hi gaya. Priya aunty 32 age ki hai or dikhne me to kisi ka khada kar sakti hai us badan ek dum perfact hai uski ek beti hai aur husband sif 3 log ghar pe rehte hai. Lekin priya aunty kabhi mere samne. God willing, I'll be stateside six weeks from the date I write this. Your town is not far from my parent's home, which is where I will live for the short term. When I am established, would you allow me to call on you?Warm regards,Tommy[/INDENT]“Father? I don't know what to do.” Diane poured the doctor a second cup of coffee.“About what?”“Tommy will be home in about a month.”“Good.”She sat at the table and fidgeted while her father read his newspaper. Eventually he folded it and set it.