her beauty and just the idea of her—
I didn’t know I was supposed to talk
to her. The naked women on my
computer, I’d never had to talk to
them, ask them their opinions, ask
them about their feelings. And I
was afraid I’d open my mouth and
ruin the whole thing, so I just
nodded and smiled along and let
Tom do the talking.
All three of Babiki’s older
sisters spoke English, and her
younger sister Lerato spoke a little.
So whenever we hung out with
Babiki and her sisters and their
friends, a lot of the conversation
was in English. The rest of it was