Jaisa mene batya mai pg me rehta tha to khana kuch khas nahi milta tha, or jese taise kaam chala rahe the. Ek din aunty mere pass ayi or hospital chal...e k lie bola,unhone bataya ki unke bete ka accident ho gaya h and wo ek private hospital me admit hai.Maine turant apni bike nikali or aunty or bhabhi ko bike betha lia. Maine jaan bujhke pehle bhabhi and fir aunty ko bike ke piche bethaya. Sare raste wo dono kafi pareshan the ravi bhaiya ko leke but mere dimag me to kuch or hi chal rha tha or. Wir waren noch keine halbe Stunde da, als es plötzlich an der Tür klingelte und zwei weitere Farbige hereinkamen. Frank stellte die beiden als Tom und Pete vor und meinte es seien Freunde von ihm, die spontan mal vorbeigekommen waren.Nun kenne ich die amerikanische (Un)sitte, einfach mal spontan jemanden besuchen zu gehen, ohne sich vorher anzumelden, aber die Art, wie die beiden Karo musterten und sich auch gleich rechts und links von ihr auf den Boden setzten, ließ in mir doch gewaltige. ” Must be an interesting job, I thought.The office wouldn’t take a check ... but my One Card took a hit. Arrangements for the body and services were expensive, time consuming, and mind numbing.So numbing I forgot about my child.Through it all, Jim was a brick.Jim organized my life ... arranged feeding, laundry, cleaning as I slowly pulled myself together.About the time ... two weeks ... I remembered the child ... the Aboriginal Child, Family and Community State Secretariat came calling.“We’re a. I tell Siri to call Cindy, put the phone on ‘speaker’ and set it on the desk.It rings three times before “Hey, sweetie. What’s up?”“Uh, I need you to do something, punkin. You’re doing the Citation training this week, right?”“Yeah, why?”“Get with those people and cancel the Daher training. We’re not getting the Daher...”“Awwww, what happened?” Her voice dripped disappointment. I felt even worse.“Your friends Jo and Stoney decided that the Daher didn’t really meet our business needs. Said it was.