"I know this week has been a little hard on you, but we can work it out in the family," Dad said."No, we can't." Who are you going to see?" Mom asked...."Ellie Kirkland."Mom and Dad shot each other a look at that one. It was a rather alarmed look. "Listen, Missy, if you really feel the need to see a shrink," Mom said, "why don't you let us find you one?" Because this isn't about you, it's about me," I replied. "Besides which, what's wrong with Ellie Kirkland? She's very well regarded. I know that. Kamar dard ka bahana bana ke… who aake chai de ke gayi… mai chai pee ke phir so gaya.. Who thodi der baad waapis aayi aur utha ke boli saab office nahi jaana hai kya aapko…. Maine bola nahi meri kamar me bahot dard hai… aaj chutti… who thoda sad sa hui, but bolti bhi kya aur chali gayi… phir saara kaam nipta ke who jaane lagi…pata nahi uske dimaag me kya aaya darwaaze se waapis aa gayi… phir room me aake boli.. Mai kuch malish kar du kya.. Aise kab tak lete rahoge aap… maine thoda natak kiya. One day I buried a diversion culvert under his driveway and cleaned it up. Over the next three days I got a hen house with all the fixin’s short of cluckers. We fenced in a couple of runs for the birds to work over. I figured that I could fence it off into parts and let the birds work over a section at a time. He told me about heating tapes on the watering pans and when to change out the bedding. Most of the rest I remembered from growing up with the little feathered bastards. Mom had a lot. The staff was obliging, and pulled up the file on their computer for her. ‘Hmmm… Ma’am (killing her a little more), according to our records your daughter isn’t living on campus anymore. She’s off-campus now.’ ‘Really? That’s strange, she didn’t tell me. What’s the address?’ ‘We just have her home address and her campus PO box now, ma’am.’ (grrrr…) ‘You mean you don’t have her actual local residence?’ ‘No ma’am, she’s not required to provide it. Didn’t she give it to you?’ Julie conjured up.
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