Even in this crowd filled with good-looking black ladies and sexy black men, Joanna stood out. She simply did. Joanna was not what I expected. This go...geous black lady was friendly, warm and very easygoing. I was pleasantly surprised to learn that she was of Haitian descent, just like me. Her parents, Luther and Jezabel Gustamar moved to the U.S. in the early 1980s and she was born in Atlanta, Georgia. Her daddy’s a professor of civil engineering at Georgia Tech and her mother is a state. He told us that mom deserved to be let in on this, but he would leave that up to us.We decided to let mom walk in on our impromptu head session and she also acted atypically when she heard our story. She kept stealing glances toward dad.Finally, dad said this couldn't go on any longer, and I began crying, as did Glen.Quick to understand our misplaced grief, dad quickly clarified, "No girls, not your relationship has to stop, but the idea that you might be pregnant!"What? "What are you talking. She then became just like an extinguished candle. All the charm of her face was replaced by a guilt feeling. I could not see her in that way so I said, “I did not understand Sudeshna. I mean you so suddenly……” Though I was telling her all this and had reacted like that, but I really felt to let her do with me whatever she wanted. And I even did not understand the feeling either. I was burning inside me. Sudeshna started speaking slowly in lower tone, “I have been seeing you from class five. You. Anne knew what had to be done to stop them, the same as I did.It was 1500 when we finished and I offered her the position. I made the offer without waiting for input from the others, getting approving nods from them.Anne went to call some friends to join her at the news conference.It was in this break that I told Troy that Vicky and I were going back to Portugal in two weeks and that we would be taking heavy security.“You have a bigger pair of balls than I have, damned if I would be going back!.