When the dance ended they returned to Mike's table. "Honey, this is Joe. Joe this is my husband Mike." Mike stood and reached across the tabl... to shake hands with Joe. "Glad to meet you Mike, and thanks for sharing your wonderful wife with me!" Joe's manner won Mike, and Mike replied warmly. "You too, and yes, she is wonderful. Doesn't your date dance?" "No, she's not my date, she's my wife, and no, she doesn't like to dance either. We've been married for twelve years and. “Vegetables,” she said. “Real food. And I’ve got some meat cooking too.” She waved at where a small creature was roasting over an open fire. “Squirrel’s not the greatest, but it’s edible.”I really tried hard not to turn up my nose, but I didn’t quite succeed.“Oh sure,” she said, “it might not have all the flavours that the Corporation’s fake food will give you, but it’s what our bodies were designed for.”I pointedly lifted the drink I’d carried with me from the club and raised it toward my. She was younger to me, slim, 155-160 cms tall, medium fair, typical south Indian girl. I had only seen her few times that too in her own marriage, and a few other occasions. So I have hardly seen her.I reached my native 2 days before the naming ceremony. Since we were a big family with lots of uncles, aunties, and cousins, almost all the houses in my village were some or the other relative’s houses. So all the relatives used to share all their houses in the times of any function.Being a family. "Annette smiled gratefully at her. "I'd like nothing better," she said.The nurse led them off again. "There you are," she said. "I'll leave you to find your own way back."Eileen turned on the taps and Annette sat on a stool to take her hospital gown off."So," said Eileen. "Tell me all." We had a lovely time and then on the way home I turned my ankle and pitched forward onto my face. I slid a bit of a way. That's when I biffed my face and picked up the other bruises. We tried to keep going with.