The older man had raised her after her parents died in an epidemic when she was only the tender age of sixteen. He had seen to her general education a...d had disciplined her nightly just to teach her the need for obedience and quick response to orders from any grown-up in authority. The combination of discipline and strict upbringing taught her to mistrust allowing any male to take complete control of her actions. She had confronted the old man shortly before he died about his strict upbringing. Occasionally we played some slow music and danced with each other's wives. All of us guys spent hours in the Ready Room on the site with this game and we were all almost pros at it. We found out early that we would have to carry the wives as they didn't play at all unless they played with us, so they were pretty happy with the diversion of the poker and dancing at those get-togethers.About six months of these parties, it started to become the same routine of cards and then more cards or. Let’s look at each provision and do a fact check.”I began going through the booklet and, taking my cue from Don’s legal instructions, confirmed that the Program officials agreed that every word and every sentence in the Program booklet meant precisely what it said.“Exactly why are we doing this?” Merotta asked when we got about a third of the way through it.“I just want to be sure that the official Program reps are on the same page with us and agree that the words mean what they say. Sometimes. Kiran and Julie, who had both just given birth, were lying on theirbeds, Kiran holding a tiny baby with a little blue hat on. Nikki wassitting with her parents who had come over especially on the oppositeside of the room surrounded by cots and Dev and Kiran's parents weresitting on Julie's bed, laughing and joking like old friends with her."Look Dev, he's got your nose!" laughed Kiran. "Come and give yournephew a kiss."Dev bent down and kissed his nephew, his son, tenderly on the.