It had been taken when he had been touring with a circus. He had learned to make the letters to his name. He had written his name vertically, with one...letter above the next down the side of the photograph.This was the main feature that kept people coming into the store. She was not about to let it go, so there was a price of $40,000.00 on it. She had two more at home in her safe, but they were the darkest secrets in her life.The men sat at the long glass dining room table just inside the coiled. But the attention we were giving each other became noticeable at work. We were not in the same department so there would be no problem with favoritism or anything like that. But I was married. I clung to that like it was something to protect. Something that would be there when my wife decided that work was just that and there was more… I waited and all the while maintained my friendship with Ratna.One day Ratna came to my office early in the morning, she was obviously upset. I got her a cup of. He looks puzzled for a minute. My heart starts to race. Do I tell him about mine now that I asked him? "Yes, I do, I think everyone does." "What are yours?" "I dream of being on an island, with a cottage that has a beautiful deck that faces the west so that I can watch the sunsets." "Nice." "What about sexual fantasies?" I see him blush. "Is it the one where you have sex with more then one woman?" I ask him trying to break the tension. "I don't think I would want to do it, but I think everyone. Being teachers themselves they were angry at how their son had so obviously failed, they had noticed how much you were going out, your broke bank statements coming in. They made an emotional appeal to you to please try, you weren't a kid anymore so they couldnt make you put more work in but they were begging you to make the most of a degree which could help define your future. Seeing your mum crying as she asked you to please think about your future was the jolt your brain needed to realise how.