We must not forget Seven ... she's the store clerk ... and not all that much older than we girls. Seven is Seven because she was the seventh child of ...traditional Chinese parents. Some times we call her Chu ... mostly everybody calls her Seven ... she does too. She has great fun answering the phone.We never have bill collectors ... we have Burial Insurance, Life Insurance, Timeshare salesmen, Church Solicitations, Orphanages, Police and Fire Departments, Red Cross, Salvation Army, Goodwill,. “Kiss my feet”, the first words Janani ever spoke to us. Anjan was confused but I realized what Janani had on her mind and immediately put my lips to her feet and started making smooching noises as I kissed them. “Mairu, do I have to tell you separately?” she said, menacingly, to Anjan, and gave him a resounding slap on his face. Shocked and just as surprised as I am, Anjan fell down and began kissing her left foot as I kissed her right. “Perverted gay faggots! Shameless, useless, pieces of. She could accept my strange desireto wear corsets; and this alone made her unique among women.She did not laugh at me, or make barbed and wounding attacks on me likemost girls did. I liked her direct and matter-of-fact way of dealingwith things that other people had always considered to be queer,unusual, or wrong.When I was safely shut inside my own mental cocoon, I summoned up thememory of Matron, and compared it, step by step, with the memory ofDorothy; finding that there were many. No one suspected we weren't who we appeared to be, but the faint fear they might added an exciting edge to things."Laurie spun him round then, surprising him by planting a kiss on his painted lips. The kiss lasted more than a minute. When, breathless, John pulled away, he surprised himself by blurting out "I love you." And I love you, my darling," Laurie replied without hesitation, pulling him into another long embrace. So there it was; out in the open now. On the drive back to the house, John.