“Yes, of course Daniel, thank you – you remind me so much of Martin,” she said.“I will take that as a compliment, you kind of remind me of my ...mom, except her hair’s real long,” I said.“Well Linda, of all of the scraggly boys you have pulled into our house, Daniel is easily the nicest, and he might just be the most handsome as well,” mom said blushing a bit.“MOM,” Linda said. “I found him first?”“Lorraine; Danny and I have to get back to where we’re staying, but this dinner is really good. I. I freaked out! I ran into the home & locked myself in my room. I carefully listened, she entered our home, mom welcomed her, offered her coffee & then she started talking about my studies.She told that I was doing quite well & handed over the report card to my mom. Mom seemed excited, she called me in to the living room….asked me to thank vandana for helping me to secure such good marks. I hesitantly looked at her & said, “Thank you mam!”. “Of course Arun, anything for you!”, she replied with a. But he was just so damned cute when he did it. Well, if you could apply the word cute to a man like that. He was making it hard to remember that I was supposed to be pissed off at him. The first thing I did the Wednesday the Colonel officially let me off quarters was head straight for the PX, do not pass go, do not collect two-hundred dollars. I went to the small food court outside of the department store and settled in to eat a hot sandwich straight from the source. A month of mess hall food. This can't be real, I thought. My heart pounded for what seemed like an eternity. This is it.The Change I saw them pull up into the carport as I was sipping on a beer and smoking a cigarette. Both doors of their black Lincoln rental car swung open and I saw my parents for the first time in over a year and a half. They stepped out of the car and proceeded to unload their baggage as I got up and walked over to greet them.They still looked young. They had me when they were just out of college. My.