Maa’s attitudes are giving me courage. Sometimes I feel a kind of fear, ‘what if I go further’. Next day again the same thing happened. She didn...��t come into my lap nor she asked me to sit on her lap.“Maa come let me feed you,” I said inviting her into my lap. “Voo hun!” she moved her head in a no. “Emaindi Maa?” (What happened Maa?)“Huh. huh. nuvvu chala chilipi ra! Edo koduku vi kada ani nee korika teeruddamu ani anukunnanu, kani voddu.” (Voo hun, you are a very mischievous son. You are my. I had joined up because I believed in a free America. My Dad and his brothers had all fought in WWII. I had been raised thinking about the military as a civil duty.Sheryl later told me Tim often spent their rent or food money on booze and other things. This is when I learned about their pot parties with April. April had been hanging out with them so she could smoke with them. She evidently was not as straight as she had led me to believe. Sheryl told me Tim was the dope-head in the family and. "Wait," he croaked. He coughed. He coughed again. "Wait," he croaked again, and coughed again. Jeez, had I really hit him that hard? For a second there, I wondered if I would have to call for the paramedics. I waited, arm cocked as if I were about to throw a javelin. He took his hands off his stomach to motion for me to put the recorder down. Or to sit down or both or maybe to see if he was still alive.It took him a few minutes to regain his breath, during which I did not stand as if I would. “Hope you’re right.”“When is the next port, anyway?” Danica asked.“Two weeks.” Belita replied. “We’re adding a stop on account’a having tae leave Bastard’s Bay wit’out our full load of supplies,” Belita said. “Should be easy sailing ‘til then. We’ll have tae follow th’ Akula buoys tae get through th’ Kinnet reef. Besides that it’s a pretty straight course. This time of year th’ waters are pretty calm, an’ there’s a lot o’ Magistrate patrols ‘round that passage. We might be stopped again, but I.