From Mom I expected a smile and a big hug. Instead her face never reacted.Did you ever have one of those situations where you knew exactly what someon... was going to say, when you had no clue whatsoever and still you knew what it was and that you didn't want to hear it? She began to babble incoherently. I strained to make sense out of her words and then, finally, they sank in."Big C. Three months."Silently I began to curse Mitchell for having given me such pleasure on a night that would become a. She unlocked the door and headed to her refrigerator. “I have some red wine,” she said. “Would you like some?”“Sure. Wine at Roma’s was out of our price range.”“This is some Gallo jug wine -- I’m not much of a connoisseur, I’m afraid.”“Aja -- if you don’t drive, how do you shop for groceries?”“I have this drag-along basket. There’s a Whole Foods just down the hill. I walk there.”“Even in the winter?”“Even then. If I have to, I rely on places like Dine-One-One, Domino’s and Pea Pod. I won’t. Didi ashta ashta amk dhkaglo, amr kono shara sobdo na peya sha amr gayar upr hath dsa joria dore sua porlo prai 20min pr didi’r 1ta kaj dekha ame obak! Atkkn j hath ta amr buka cilo ta ashta ashta amr dhon r upr nai gelo, ame gum r van kore dekcelam didi r ki kore kicukkn pr didi uta light on kore ame chok bondo kore pore roilam deklam didi shamna asha amr lungi tula amr dhon ta dekcha r amr dhon tho didi dorai fula tight.Tarpr didi light off kore abr pasha sua 1hath a amr dhon r 1hath a tar. The passages were lower and all the women had to bend forward. It made the going slow and the upward slope made the trip arduous.Finally, even Liala was laboring to continuing forward. They found an opening large enough for the women to sit down and she called a halt.“We must rest,” she told Bianca.Despite the cold inside the cavern, the women were covered in a fine sheen of sweat and their breathing had become laborious.“Yes,” the young woman agreed. She had been ready to stop far earlier but.