"Her father squeezed her hand encouraging her. "Okay." Remember when you and Mom sat me down, and you first told me about yourother self. I was mayb... eight or nine, not quite into puberty yet, butalmost."A slight nod accompanied his wonderful smile."I didn't handle that very well at the time. . . . I'm sorry about that."Once again she felt the gentle squeeze of his hand, as she continued."My first thought of course was that you were going to embarrass me infront of all my friends, and I. Close at hand to this body zone - a smoothly swelling cleavage whichshowed to great advantage over the deep neck of Jan's top was, it hadto be said, the result of very real outside assistance, andstrategically placed support - but the breasts themselves were allnatural.And on to the face area. "Well, who doesn't use some cosmeticassistance?" Jan thought. Again, practice had paid off. Not the resultof a cosmetician, rather Jan's self-taught skills were exhibited tomaximum advantage. Reflecting. Alex continues enthusiastically- “It’s called Sex on the Beach!”As the words come out of Alex’s mouth, Annie gets embarrassed but Savita lightens up. She exclaims-“Sounds delicious.”The car moves on for 2 hours with the four of them chit chatting about them and the world.Ashok was now driving down the street of a sleepy little beach resort town, studded with shops for tourists.Something catches savita’s eyes and she could not wait for the next second to tell her ady friend. “Annie, did you see. " They all started talking at once. My Mom even got up and smacked the back of my head."Arthur, she is only fourteen. Their years are half as long as ours." No, wait. That can't be right. Rose told me she was 5110 years old."Rose spoke up. "Yeah, you said a year was the time the earth revolves around the sun. It doesn't revolve around the sun. It makes a revolution. I just figured that you primitive earth people didn't understand that and I adjusted my figures."It was a good thing that I was.