The girls followed me out into the garage then just stood there staring. I put on my white gloves then patted the rear deck of Sandra’s cherry, cana...y yellow, 1965 MGB Roadster. “Oh, Kevin, it’s gorgeous.” “Did you really expect anything less? Please note these improvements – the turn signal lights are amber, locking monogrammed gas cap, boot luggage rack, and MG mud flaps.” Stepping to the side, I caressed the machines gleaming flank. “Five coats of Turtle Wax – not three, not four – and hand. He sometimes cried and always wondered what he was going to do without her. She’d doze, sometimes murmuring in her sleep and whisper words that he sometimes understood, but usually couldn’t quite make out. She’d open her eyes and smile at whoever was beside her bed, and maybe say a few words of love and encouragement. Meanwhile she ‘waited for Elbert to come get her’ so they could ‘leave together,’ and they waited and watched, waiting to say their last good-byes so she wouldn’t have to wait. Dene se mana kar diya tha but mera number usne le liya tha or kaha tha ki jab mauka milega tab wo call kar legi. To us raat ke theek 3 din baad uska phone aaya. Din tha Wednesday aur time tha 9 am. Mere cell ki ghanti bhaji….maine phone utthaya to ek mast si aurat ki aawaaj aayi…..”Hello….aap rohit bol rahein hain”. Mujhe koi idea nahi tha ki wo sarita hogi to maine thodi tameez se baat ki…maine kaha..”Hanji mai rohit bol rha hu…bt maine aapko pehchaana nahi”. To usne btaya ki wo sarita bol. But I don’t guess she could have picked a better young man for her first boyfriend.”“MOM!”She smiled at Tony and asked, “Don’t you think that will get on your nerves?”Tony smiled and Sam exclaimed one last time, “MOM!”Tony shrugged and said, “I like her. A lot. I think she’s cute. And she’s smarter than you give her credit for. When I was explaining what I was going to do to her computer last night she understood almost all of it.”Sam chuckled and corrected him, “Almost half of it.”Mrs. Wendell.