They were gold underneath but onthe outside they had fine etching which colored them in shades of therainbow; they were very beautiful and looked expe...sive. "Now when you wife comes home, give her a ring. Women can't resist cheapbaubles and trinkets. She'll snap this one of these rings like a trouttaking a fly. When she does leave just make sure she is wearing thering. You shouldn't have a problem, I've never had a women turn down onethese particular rings. Give her a couple of minutes to get. I invented the "Playoff Pizza." In time, people came from all over Indiana to check it out. The more people that tried it, the more popular our restaurant became, so I was able to open two more restaurants in the area. The money rolled in. I bought one of the better homes in Bloomington. Who would have thought that a guy with little more than a high school education could become the richest eligible bachelor in town. My situation came with drawbacks. I was always busy with little time to date. I’m very lucky, and I’m still amazed that…”I interrupted. “Why are you lucky?”“Well, because it was you. Some men would have reacted badly, maybe even beat me up if they’d gotten the surprise that you did. It was incredibly careless of me to assume you knew, extremely dangerous. I’m usually very careful to avoid that situation, that kind of misunderstanding.”I thought about that, about the dangers she faced because of who – and what – she was. It was sad and vaguely depressing, but the world is. Ipek wrote me she would be 40 years old and still single. She would have never been married. With almost every sentence she excused herself for her bad English. It wasn‘t that bad but talking that way she gave me a kind of a superior feeling right from the beginning.Answering my questions Ipek told me she was living in Istanbul still together with her mother. I had spent a few holidays in Turkey but never been to Istanbul. She told me about the beauty of her hometown and I kept on reading, made.