"Why that's exactly right," says Joan. "Uncle James is finding out thathe's not the big macho man that he thought he was any more. He's my littlesiss...y boy, and he does just what I tell him to do. DON'T YOU?" She shouts atme. "Y-yes ma-m," I answer sheepishly, almost dropping the snack tray in myconfusion. Not knowing what she wants me to do, I curtsy again. "Why I think this is hilarious," says Pam, laughing out loud as I approachher with the snack tray. "And aren't those pink cotton. To me he practically was my brother, he knew everything about me and we never kept secrets. I was 18 and he was 16. So when we got to out grandma’s house we unpacked our things and begin marking our territories. My grandma has a four bed room house but we always chose to sleep in one room. Plus my other cousin Marry was coming into town, she committed a crime here and moved away to get her life in order. Unfortunately she had to come back because her trial was set down here. She arrived shortly. I was surprised and did not like the presence of guest that evening. The guest was mom’s sister Priya living in Dehradun who had to stay in Delhi for that night in Delhi. She had come alone for some office work and decided to stay with us for that night. Priya mausi is very friendly with me, but I did not like her to be there with us to play spoilsport.However, I greeted Priya mausi with a smile and sat down with her and had some quality family time along with mom laughing and discussing. “Maybe eighty or a hundred, ran out of the heavy stuff,” he said, smirking.“More’s the pity. Well, gimme what yuh got,” I said.“You got it, man,” he said.I watched the other early arrivals beginning to get into the scene as I sipped my Smirnoff blue label and nibbled on the pretzels my favorite drink master kept in front of me.My favorite partner in misery came in about mid-second drink. I waved her over. “You look good Marianne,” I said. “I mean for someone who knows from experience how.