I had never expected anything to happenso soon. I noticed that one of them had a picture of me, I mean Howard,in his hand.I had no plans for this so I...just played it by ear; I pointed to thepicture and said, "Hay, that's me when I was a boy."The cop just looked at me for a second. I repeated myself.He and his partner were looking at the picture and me and back at thepicture again."Is this you?" the other one said."Yes, I'm a boy...see." I lifted my dress and pulled down my tights andpanties to. I’m not stupid.”‘--Anymore,’ I felt like adding, but didn’t at risk of her racing down them steps to mom.“You’re sick.”I had to say something. I had to defend myself – somehow – or she was going to be a little bitch about it and scream to the high hills about this whole thing.“You do it too. You play with yourself too,” I softened the terminology for her to understand.“No... no I don’t.” Elly lied. It was all over her face.“Everyone does, Elly,” I reasoned.“I don’t,” she folded her arms,. Sobkisu check kore nilam. Ghor dhuke dorja lagie dilam. Tube light er aloy ghor jholmol korse. Janala bondho kore dilam. Khat theke neme daralm, mao chul sithi kore amar samne daralo bollo, amar sari blouse khule de nijer hate. Ammuke ghurie ghurie sarir pach khule dilam. Sati uchu kore ammu amar dike mele dilo blouse kholar jonno.Ami sontrosto uttejito kapa kapa hate blouse huk gulo khule dilam. Amar hater chap lege dui buk theke koekfota dudh berie elo. Abar dudh jome mai duto fule fepe ase.. Despite the divorce, I still love her, and I probably always will.Now it was time to pick up the pieces, take stock of my life, and get used to living alone again, for the first time in forever. I doubted I'd ever marry again. So I found a modest little apartment in an out-of-the-way place, and set up shop. I made sure to find a place that allowed pets, because I thought I'd probably get a dog for company, down the road. My family always had at least one dog when I was growing up, and it always.