You know we have talked about this before. I do not want to move, not now, not in a week. Not ever. Do you hear me?" half-shouted Manya, now on the ve...ge of tears. She had given up everything for Desh, she gave up her job at the school to take care of the kids, she had married Desh and in return ended up alienating all of her family and now he wanted her to break the only thread she had left.She had formed many relationships in the community over the years, and she had come to think of the. A handsome older gentleman answered the door, “Daisy?”. “Yes, sir.” “I like how you’re already referring to me as ‘sir’. If you don’t mind, please use ‘Master’.” “Yes, Master.” I had to nail this interview. I needed that sum of money so very badly. He sat me in a living room off to the side of the main entrance. He asked me some very basic questions; where I lived, what I did, where I went to school. He asked me to drink a huge bottle of water very rapidly. Then he asked me to strip. “What?”. "OK, it looks like a lot of y'all want ta return ta bein' whores an' gittin' paid fer it. Let me see the hands of those of y'all what want ta do that. We'll worry about the details later." It looked like every hand in the crowd went up. "Fine, now let me see the hands of those of y'all what want ta do somethin' else." Nothin'! Not a hand was raised. I 'spose that some of the women might have been influenced by how their friends voted. It didn't make no difference, the vote was solid. No woman. ”“What’s that mean?”“You know that Kim has her doctorate in engineering and Brad has his in history. Well, I thought I should have one, too.”“And... ?”“I have a Ph.D. in English literature,” Carol confessed. “And I’ll get another this June, I guess.”“In what?”“The history of science,” Carol said, blushing.Penny just rolled her eyes. “How about Bill?” she asked.“Oh, he has a Ph.D. in economics and is getting one in military strategy. Then Jenny Clark has a couple, too.”“Good grief!” Penny.