We were immediately ushered to a table in a garden setting outdoors.“Rebeca, I understand you have some marketing sense and are interested in advert...ising,” Ray said when we were settled and had ordered. “Is that what you think you might want to go into when you’re out of Service?”“It seems like a long way away, but I’m certainly interested,” Beca said. I guess she’d spent more time with Ray and Debbie than the brief moments I’d spent in the past. When Joan came home from Chicago last summer,. “Arre Rajesh! Come in come in.” She invited me in. The house was in much better shape that day. All the clutter was cleared and the small hall was tastefully arranged.“Thank you so much for coming. Do you want some chai? Sit sit!” she said in a bated breath, showing me to her sofa.“No, aunty, it’s fine, why take the trouble for me.” I said, like all Indians I too was taught to refuse chai- coffee when it was asked for the first time.“Arre, don’t feel shy, I was making chai for myself anyway.”. But last night for the first time in your life I saw a lot of me in you, and I really want to get to know this version of you.”“I don’t think I’m anything like you,” I said.“You are,” he replied. “You just don’t know it yet. Right now you see a world full of endless possibilities. When you get older your view of the world will change. Eventually you’ll become a prisoner of responsibilities.”“Dad you’re rich as fuck,” I said. “You could walk away from your responsibilities at work and have. I was married for eighteen years and we never had children (my fault according to the doctor). After my divorce I didn't get back in to the dating mode for almost a year. Once I felt like starting over I dated guys around my age whom I met through friends and family but it seemed like they all had baggage or issues. That lasted for maybe six months then I went back to hanging with gal friends for entertainment. In March one of my friends wanted to fix me up with a cousin of hers who was 27.