We can teach their scholars how to keep their histories longer, as well as help to keep it even beyond that." I could feel my sister's pain lessening....Then Des stepped right up to Tanni and took her face. "Sister Tanni, all is well. And I would welcome an older sister to talk to. Please your brother loves you so much and all he wants is for you to be as happy as he is."The two locked eyes for quite some time then Tanni spoke, "It's true that you have our people's eyes and I can see you have our. Her deadbeat father had left years before and I'd found myself settling into the single life with some relish.I returned home around four and dropped the groceries off in the kitchen, then I wandered into the den to have a well earned sit down. And there she was, as large as life, sitting on the couch and looking as though butter wouldn't melt in her mouth! She must have let herself in with the key under the plant pot."Katie," I said, suddenly concerned that something might have happened to. It made me quite emotional and I couldn’t stop crying. She got emotional too and she slipped out her nipple and pushed it in to my mouth to stop me from crying. I sucked on it like a starving child and she held me close to her. Suddenly she pushed me away and said this isn’t right and I will have to tell Shalini about it. I left from there soon after feeling even more depressed. She called me later that day and said I should forget it all and not to meet her again. I cut the call without saying. The man standing on the stoop was rather unremarkable, average in height, waistline no longer boyish, nose a bit broad and sandy hair beginning to recede. But when their eyes met both gasped slightly, he from instant recognition and her from awareness that she should know this person, yet a name and the context of knowing him were elusive.“Maria? Maria Canales?” he asked, his eyes lighting up and a smile appearing in immediate reaction.No one had called Maria by her maiden name in years which.