The rest of the evening was fun... it was good for me to get out.I went into San Francisco with Phil and Mandy for New Year's Eve. I really didn't wan... to go, but Mandy wouldn't take no for an answer. It was nice to see how close Phil and Mandy were getting. I wondered briefly if they were sleeping together and immediately decided it wasn't my business. I just wanted her happy, and except for missing her mom she clearly was very happy!I took Erin to the opera and dinner in San Francisco and had. ”Theek hai Akhtar bhaijaan, agar aapka man hi aa gaya hai apni baji ki gaand chodne mein to mujhe kia etraz hai, bhaijaan. Par gaand mein aapka mota loda jayega to mujhe dar hai ki bahut dard hoga, zara apni baji ki gaand aram se chodna, mere bhaijaan.”Maine Shabnam ke cuutar haathon se masal diye aur ungli par tel laga kar usski mast gaand mein dhakelne laga. Meri baji ki gaand bahut tight thee aur mujhe ungli dalte huye bahut maza aa raha tha,” Hai Allah, ohhhh bhai jaan maza aa raha hai, dal. Their new lives were almost idyllic. Between all of the dinner parties and many dances at the country club, life for them was like a bed of roses. But even roses have thorns. There was quite a bit of flirting going on amongst the young attorneys and their wives and with other couples but most of it was just for fun.One evening at dinner, Maurice asked his lovely wife if she had ever thought about being with another man."Maurice, you have been my only love since high school. Don't you know that,. Well Jim was grinning, I assumed that facial contortion Grandfather was making was his idea of a grin.‘You might as well bring it all to me,’ Grandfather said.Jim nodded.I said, “Yes sir.”Alice looked at me ... weirdly. Oh her look was alright ... she looked at me with the oddest expression.“What?”“Who are you talking to?”“The voices in my head ... they spoke ... it’s ony polite to answer.”“Daddy?”“Yes?”“Time to go,” I said.He was climbing out of the pit already. Oddest thing ... the pit was.