He seemed cool and we got along alright - even though he talked alot. He was a D&D and EQ fan and that was the basis for our relationship. He was just...a 'dude' to me, nothing special. After Daniel got his own place, I lost contact with Karl - until I found out that he'd married Teresa, Daniel's sister. Mandy and I visited them at their home in Essex a couple times but again, he was nice enough but never rated very highly on the friendship scale back then.Years passed until Teresa needed a place. After reaching New York I wanted to show my friend Carla Perez a historian working for the Metropolitan Museum of Art she is also my roommate, I arrived at our apartment in the middle of the night I placed the Jewel in my drawer next to me and slept.I woke up and fished the Jewel from my drawer, I looked at my alarm it was 9:30 Am in 2 more hours my roommate would go to work I walked into the kitchen and saw her drinking coffee.“Hey, Carla, I’m back from my trip to Chile! You won’t believe what. Mera lya nighties thein aur tight skirts aur deep neck wala shirts. Sab na kaha iska to maza hogaya hain. Mein kamra mein who samaan lekar aayi aur try karna lagi. Itna mein aami na bulwaya kah Santosh (mera mangetar) ka phone hai. Phone par usna mujh sa poocha cheezain pasand aayein, meinne kaha haan bohat. Usna kaha dekho aisa hi kapra pehna karo. Mujhe yahi pasand hai hum bohat jald date par jainga to is mein sa kuch pehanna. Meinne kaha theek hai. Uska baad phir usna kaha apna 34 jaldi sa. Did the children feeding suck the magic out of her breasts? Did the surgeon take her confidence with her womb? I never thought so but she did. I couldn’t convince her that there was still magic in those breasts, in her body, in her. I was too familiar I guess, too easy to discount, too biased she thought."You would say that wouldn’t you," She’d say, convinced that I spoke from love rather than reality.Her night school teacher on the other hand; an adulterous philanderer who was only interested.