He sat me gently on the sofa and went to the kitchen to get some paper towels. As he was away I began to wonder if I would get lucky anyway even after...my embarrassing fall. He came back with the paper towels and peroxide and a gauze bandage from the first aid kit above the fridge. He cleaned my cut and bandaged it and then asked if it felt better. I replied that it did and I immediately blushed because I realized I had been breathing heavily to fight off tears from the pain. He noticed my. Her veil of submission vanished, as her tongue spewed the truth. Lauren had a sharp sass-mouth that was no respecter of person. Her tone was direct, and she was out of order. Lauren could talk back something wicked, dole out unwanted directives, and distribute unsolicited advice to anyone who was willing to skip in, fall in or buy into her bullshit. She was a puppeteer. She had to be in control of everybody and everything with the exception of two situations: her personal achievement and her. I’m sure more than one graduate thesis dissected the difference between ahora (“now”) and ahorita (“soon, or maybe next month or next year, or maybe never”).We had several long conversations over the weekend about life in the capital, what she did with her time back home, and what she planned for the future. On that last point she wasn’t as clear as I would have liked. That confirmed Sara’s worry.“Do you want to stay here with Sara and help around the house, Roberta?”“Yes, don Alejandro. Very. No bumps in the road as it were. Toby hadbeen a stellar co-driver in our cross-country jaunt. Polite,gentle, humble. But now things had suddenly become veryfrustrating. I wanted to get back at him good for being so damn-so damn- cocky. My mind formulated the first logical response to Toby’s overconfidence. The Greeks had a name for it. In formal debating it’scalled Ad Homonym, literal translation “to the man”, loosetranslation. well, let’s just say if you’re.