If the suit expired, I was finished.I keyed the bootup sequence on the flight computer. Nothing. I supposethat wasn't surprising. The EMP would have f...ied the delicatemicrocircuitry in an instant. I reached up with my good arm and drew thecanopy shut with a click. As I reached, a sharp wave of pain hit me frommy shoulder and ribs. I closed my eyes and took a deep breath. Don'tlose consciousness. Not now...I looked down at the dead circuitry. My eyes picked out the emergencyanalogue radio. MALATHI TOLD ME"KAVITHA CAN YOU sleep AT ANOTHER ROOM BECAUSE MY DAUGHTER CANNOT sleep WITHOUT ME",I SAID "OK MALATHI",AND WENT TO ANOTHER ROOM AND SLEPT.NOW IT WAS 10:30 PM NIGHT.MY BABY STARTED TO CRY BECAUSE IT WAS HOT TEMPERATURE IN ROOM.SO I TOOK MY BABY TO THE HALL.WHILE GOING TO THE HALL.SOME SOUNDS WERE COMING FROM MALATHI'S ROOM,MALATHI'S ROOM DOOR WAS LITTLE OPENED I WENT NEAR THERE AND SAW,BY SEEING THIS I GOT SHOCK TO SEE,MALATHI'S DAUGHTER IS SUCKING MALATHI'S BOOBS.MALATHI WAS. I really had an enjoyable time making love with you, I had a real honest to god orgasm form that. We need to do that some more soon.”I told her that I felt that she deserved a kiss for making me feel wonderful. I asked her if she was on some kind of birth control, and she said she had a five-year implant.We talked a lot but did not get a chance to get back together until the week before classes started up again.We were attached at the hip for the entire school year. When I graduated I was. Well, this year, people, it's different. Little Johanna Elise Solheim is now Mrs. Randall Jackson and with that status comes a whole new life. Christmas dinner."Do you think we can manage something close to a Christmas dinner, Stoney?"He smiled. "Yeah, I think we can do that, in a restrained fashion." Turkey. Little one. With dressing. Those mashed potatoes you do. I like 'em. Mom and Dad will. Something vegetably. Something saladish. And a pie or two. We both do it. I take the credit," I.