The first week was spent getting used to the hostel and college rules and timings.Once when I and Archana were returning from the hostel mess after di...ner on a Friday night, we were stopped in the corridor by a senior girl."First year?" Was all she asked."Yes." Both of us replied together."Ok, go to room number 340 on the third floor." The senior girl told us.We didn't have the courage to ask why, because we understood it meant only one thing, introduction to seniors! We had to go to the room. The characters of Fatima and Lady Turakina (also spelled Toregene) are based on real women, though of course I’ve taken liberties with what I am having them do. Similarly, the legends of Lady Linshui began being told sometime in the 8th or 9th century, in the northern plateaus of what is now Inner Mongolia. She survives to this day mainly as a stock character in Chinese and Taiwanese shadow puppet plays that recount her various deeds. Depending on how the tale was told she could either be seen. .. and don't tell me you don't have a camera."The prospective daughters in law were in sweatshirts and jeans and Wendy was dressed in her official Princessapality Princess outfit ... June Cleaver dress and a bib apron. *Leave it to Beaver," had just had its final episode in June of '63 ... so everyone knew who she represented ... the quintessential suburban housewife and mom. The girls hair was flyaway and both had been in the engine room cleaning so they had assorted grease smears and dust. When I arrived outside her house, she was sat on the sidewalk, head in her hands, obviously very upset and crying. She heard me pull up, looked toward me and managed to stifle a smile. I put my bike on its stand and walked toward her. She met me half way and gave me the tenderest hug I’d ever had. I held her tight as she began sobbing into my chest. “Don’t worry Jodie, you’re safe now. He’ll never do this to you again.” I whispered, trying to hold back my own tears. Without any further words,.