"Let me show you something." What he showed her was a picture, taken from high up. It didn't mean anything to Tanda. Then the shot zoomed in, until Ta...nda recognized it as the river valley where her village was. Only there was no village. There was no sign that it had ever existed, in fact."This is where you lived, but it's different," he'd told her. "Here, in this place and time where we are now, there are no people. In fact," he waved his arm in a circle, "except for those of us here on this. ..", andfinished with "You're Ok now...", there was much more to come.When we finally separated she pulled a chair into the kitchen from thedining room and had me sit. I could see there was a lot going on in hermind, but she was calm, way more calm than I had expected. She began tospeak, then thought better of it and found some Kleenex for me, also aglass of water..."So this is why we haven't seen you in over a month?" she said softly.I could only nod..."Well that explains a lot..." she said. Bob's apartment was really nothing more than a bachelor pad, so they were already making plans for him to move in with us. Since it seemed that she was going to tie up permanently with Bob, I felt that it was time for me to go back to calling her Mom instead of Betty.We discussed sleeping arrangements that evening after Bob left. Mom thought that it was only fair to Bob for her to drop out of the fucking rotation with me, and the girls were happy as long as it meant that they did not have to. They were both 6’ tall and strong but Isadore was slightly heavier than Jaden at almost 230 pounds as against Jaden being nearly 210 pounds. Jaden was not as fair and manly looking as Isadore. Isadore married and never considered himself as gay or bisexual. Jaden’s brother Hamilton was openly a gay man and although he never made any kind of advances towards Isadore, but he took his younger brother, Jaden to several gay bars when Jaden was younger and Jaden always shared the information with.