This was more embarasing for me. She said the cloth in front should hang longer than what it is now. She also said the width of the cloth is narrow. S...e also commented the cloth is very thin. She asked again why this material and size. I said that only Valli had prepared it. Valli said that she wanted to treat her friends with something different from the village and hence this design she had made for me.All this while Archana was inside taking bath. She called up Valli from inside her bed. Whatever was in the concoction, it worked. Neither Rosie, Sean, Jamie or Mum became sea sick. They were able to help some of the more unfortunate passengers.After the storm had passed Rosie asked, "Mum where did you learn to make that, well let's call it a tea? You said you'd never sailed before." My daughter, Bessie, wrote me about her boat trip. A lady in the cabin next to hers made the brew for her and her children. So Bessie sent me the recipe when we knew I was going to join her." Well. "She teased me like that a lot, but only when we were alone. Oddly, I knew she was only kidding. She was gorgeous and sexy in the extreme, but she was Ted's wife, and, other than the passing fantasy about her, I thought of her as a friend, rather than a potential lover."Yeah, well, you may change your mind when you find out what I want to ask you," I muttered.She got serious instantly."OK, shoot," she said, holding the plate with my pie on it in one hand and a fork in the other.I sat down. She. Apparently, our birth mother survived those terrible years with the help of a few soldiers from the U.S. We, of course, were the unplanned result.I'm Misha and my sister, Svetlana, is a couple of years younger than me. I have dark skin and look much more like a black American than the Asian features of my birth mother. Svetlana is a beautiful mix of our birth mother and her American Caucasian father. We were renamed when we came to the United States, so that explains why we don't sound.