“Akshay! Akshay!” I heard Ahana call my name. I knocked on my bedroom door only to find it was open. Ahana was peeping through the little-opened b...throom door. She asked me to pass the towel. I took the towel from the bed and handed it over. She thanked me and locked the door.Half of me was thinking that I did the right thing. The other half was cursing me on the missed opportunity. Then I heard the bathroom door open again. She came out with just the towel wrapped around her. I was awestruck.. You are the last to see the gold stars in the front windows of grieving neighbours whose sons died in the War.You saw the ‘boys’ home from the war, build their little houses.You are the last generation who spent childhood without television; instead, you imagined what you heard on the radio.With no TV until the 50’s, you spent your childhood “playing outside”.There was no little league. There was no city playground for kids.The lack of television in your early years meant, that you had little. “Anybody been moaning about being sterile, Slo?” I asked as I leaned against the bar.“Well now, everybody talks about it a little. Some happy and some sad. Micah Johnson over there next to the stage has been bragging about it some. Seems like he’s been conquesting the college girls.”“Thanks. What’s he drinking? I’ll take one to him.” Slocum handed me a short whiskey on the rocks and added it to my tab.“I think this is your drink. Slocum said so,” I said, sliding the whiskey in front of Micah.. "Jack!" She came over and kissed me softly on the lips. "You are the sweetest and kindest man I know, and I do love you, but I will not marry for love but only for wealth and position, and that, my love, you do not possess!"I was crestfallen—-if she had kicked me in my nugs I could not have been more surprised or injured."But you love me—-?"She stopped me with a hand on my mouth."My mother married for love; her family were well to do but she fell in love with a traveling actor. She married him.