Her daughter was doing better and being taken care of, by her family, while she was here. Maloty was done with her work by 7 pm. She asked me ,if I ne...ded anything else. I thought she was going to leave. She was holding the door, smiling and staring at me.I asked her whether she wanted to say anything. She was silent. I then gave her a bill of fifty taka(about a thousand in today’s value)to give it to her sister Mallika, as a tip for her service. She reluctantly accepted the money but, did not. . That would be the seventh ... one more cast. The hand carved 1926 Fred Arbogast Jitterbug flew out from the rod tip ... Daddy's favorite lure ... and plunked into the water just like a frog jumping off the stump he had been aiming at ... The lessons in the backyard came back to him ... they always surfaced when he cast his Father's Shakespeare rod and high end reel."Don't reel," his Daddy said, "Frogs don't swim away right after they hit the water. They freeze ... they wait ... if they have a. I have worked very hard for it and I take very good care of it. Anyway after I finished washing my car I got a call from my friend Mike. Mike has been my best friend since the second grade. We do everything together. Swimming in his pool, hanging out in his basement and sleeping out in his tent on weekends. He is a great guy. I get a little jealous sometimes as he is very popular with the ladies. I remember one time I walked in on him and he had a girl lying with him on his bed. Her. She looks to me like she always has. What does she look like to you?”I explained what I saw and asked, “What do you think that means?”Katie said, “I don’t know. Maybe it is just up to you to decide what it means—like the kids on the playground?”I nodded and asked, “Did you decide what that meant?”She said, “Yeah, I figured it out. Those were the voices of all the kids that are going to be spared—at the intersection. Some of them would have died there; others are only going to be born.