Both the doors had tiny glass panels through which youcould see inside. I peeked in one of the rooms and sawthat there was no one inside. In the other...room I sawmy wife walking towards the inspection table. She wastaking off her saree so I decided to wait outside tillthe doctor completed the check-up.The inspection table was lined along the back wall andthere was a metal screen pulled up as a partition. ButI could see clearly what was happening on the otherside of the partition through the. . Ted told her to take the scissors and squat on the ground with her legs spread wide apart. Then, with each item of clothing held between he legs, she was to take them one at a time and cut them into ribbons and toss the tattered cloth strips into the metal wastepaper can. This took about ten minutes and, when completed, one of the lads squirted lighter fluid into the metal basket and Ted handed Virginia the matches.“You must destroy all your clothes except your shoes.” Said Ted. “ You’ve. I heard someone was laughing at how we were playing and I didn’t care to look around as I would lose balance and lose the game. I won she laughed more. I stood up and asked her why was she laughing? What she was doing here? To that she said winning against kids is easy no need to celebrate. I felt offended and looked away from her. I called my pinni saying some old lady has come to meet you.She was my pinni’s neighbour who went out on a vacation with her family to Sri Lanka. She came to visit. It was probably a good thing that we got evicted when we did, because a wave of Puerto Ricans came in with the Democratic Party politics and insured a one-party system would prevail in the city for quite some time in the future. They took over our neighborhood with a vengeance and everything changed right down to the ads on the shop windows sporting an entirely new language.As soon as her father closed the bedroom door, Veronica was straddling my torso with her almost naked hindquarters and her.