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Toks arrives in London

Unpredictable as the weather can be in the British Isles, on the day that Mr. Tokunbo Ajayi arrived in London, a torrent of rain greeted his arrival. The sky was overcast. He made his way to his friends house in the outskirts ofthe city. He was met by Titi, the beautiful wife of Bayo. Bayo was still at work, and his wife surrounded by her three little children let him in. She had prepared a small feast for the tired traveller, which he had been unable to partake of being exhausted from the trip, he had had only wanted to lie down and rest for a while. Much later, he awoke to a banging on the door, and Bayo barged in unceremoniously, " You brought the bad weather with you! I swear, it has been sunny and nice here for the past two weeks and it was so hot that I thought I was back in Lagos, and on the same day you arrive it is pouring cats and dogs." His friend laughed, " I don't think you should wish yourself back in Lagos. Lagos is a city of many faces and not all of them are good. " Bayo smiled, " Home is still home, I always say.." " Well, home and home, you have now made London your home, and I promise you, there are many of our country-men who would give an arm or a leg to do the same. you would not recognise Lagos anymore... we have advanced into the digital age of cell phones and internet access. But some things stay the same.." Bayo nodded, " I know, I know, we follow the news closely from here, he said looking up at his wife who had made her way into the room," Although, I am not certain that it makes any difference. We are hopeful, that things are turning around for the better. Now what brings you to London?" And before he could get an answer he continued, " I am so sorry about Toyin and Femi, who would have ever thought that the two of them would put you through such hell?" " yes, yes, Toyin and Femi, it seems like that was all ages ago. Life goes on, my father always said, and no one is indispensable. I am fortunate to still be alive and kicking despite it all. It is not until we encounter suffering that we dsicover the resilience of the human spirit. Infact, I am now about to get engaged to another young lady, who I think fits me just fine." Bayo laughed and his whole body shook , " Now that's my man! Lagos boys don't waste time on heart break. I am happy for you and you deserve the best." And he slapped his friend on the back. " Now you tell me about what you and Titi have planned. I was under the impression that you were well on your way to returning home last time we spoke." " In all seriousness I had contemplated a move back, but I personally feel that the time is not right as of yet. When I get embroiled in the logistics of uprooting the children from their schools, and truth be told, Titi is not too keen as of now." And Titi laughed, " There he goes putiing all the blame on me! I would love to return someday as well, but my whole famnily has relocated to London and I would lose my whole support system all at once. But there are advantages to being at home, for one thing I would have house help."

The graduation at Ife

The days of studying had come to an end. The young and beautiful Yetunde had finished and passed her final exams. As all young ladies who find themselves in the same situation the question becomes:Now what? Rarely does life or love pan out the way we envision. She had hoped that by the time of her graduation there would be solid plans for a wedding. However, over the preceding months she had seen little of Toks.. She had barely spoken to him that it now seemed incongrous that he planned to proceed with any relationship at all. The long nightly conversations had petered out into a trickle of communications mainly by the manner of impersonal text messages. And even these had become fewer and farer between. Although warm, they lacked all fervour, and ardour had been replaced by a demonstrable bored complacency. The matter had come to a full head on the graduation day at Ife. At the last moment he had failed to appear, and had excused himself due to an urgent need to travel abroad. Understandably, this had not gone down well with her. She felt as if the death knells of their relationship were tolling in her room. Nevertheless, Yetunde was a lady of faith and great hope. And so, she had held on to hope, and her faith in God, and with His help she continued to hope against hope. It was the same hope that had kept her going over the preceding months, when she had sat in her room waiting for the phone to ring. She had penned many unsent letters during those idle hours, which in the end she had torn up in frustration, saying that he certainly was undeserving of any letter from her. It was comprehensible that a man must make a living, but any man worth his salt would still communicate with the love his life.. All around she was surrounded by examples of devoted and doting fiances bringing food to their wives to be, and always visiting.

A week after Tokunbo's arrival in London Bola arrived. It was a spectacular summer afternoon, with the sun shining brightly down on the Thames, and surrounding countryside. Tokunbo waited in the arrivals section. In his hands he held a bunch of roses. White roses..He looked nervously around the terminal, and paced up and down,now and then turning around to survey the emerging passengers from immigration. The last thing that he wanted was to miss her in the crowd of people outside the arrivals door. There were men, women and children, and taxi drivers all jostling around impatiently and contributing to a sense of controlled chaos. He saw her walk out, and he wondered to himself how he had thought that he could ever have missed her, even in a crowd. There was, in his mind, no crowd too big to seperate them from each other. In the passion of a new found love he suffered from illusions about the power of this love. She, was in a pink suit, on her head she wore a french beret in white, which made her appear younger than her age. Behind her she pulled a suitcase. As she spotted her lover making his way towards her her face broke into the familiar charming smile which had besotted him. He could not help but smile back in return, and he advanced rapidly towards her. " Darling...Welcome to London", and he kissed her ever so lightly on her lips and handed her the flowers. " Oh, you should'nt have.." she said taking the flowers, and impulsively lifting them up to smell scent of the roses " " Thank you...Mmmm... there is nothing like the smell of fresh roses" She gave him her suitcase and as they walked away he enquired about the trip, and the graduation that he had missed. " It has all gone well," she remarked, and the added, " Thank God! It is noce to be here at any rate. And you, have you been able to get any rest? You looked so stressed out before you left." This seemed to induce displeasure in him. " Everyone keeps saying that , and I am tired of hearing it. "Stressed out!", and "Stressed out!". Stressed out? Is there any man in his right mind living in Nigeria now who is not? No, I think sometimes that insanity is a blessed refuge created by God for the just and favored ones, from the turmoils of this world. Mind you, that is the happy mad man, whi in his detachment from reality is a soaring eagle in the heavens of bliss. No, onthe other hand, there is on the opposite side of the spectrum, a disorder of thinking in which the darkness is overwhelming and all encompassing, and for them, only death is a refuge from their tortured existence." She smiled to herself, evidently he was in better spirits, she could tell this by the return of his philosophising and the depth of his introspection. " Yes, you are quite right", and she smiled her sweet smile at him," if it's not the water being shut off, then it's the light.." " But, you digress!" he angrily interjected," Tell me everyting about the graduation, you must fill me in from the start to the finish." He could not bear the idea of her having a part of her life, although only a week, in which he did not feature prominently, more so in regards to mmissing a momentous occasion as a graduation. As they drove in the taxi she from Heathrow to their Hotel, she told him of the ceremonies and the speeches and the parties. It had seemed like it was just yesterday, she said, that they had entered the university, and now it had all abruptly come to an end, the fairy-tale existence of care-free college days were over. He had the asked her in as disinterested a manner as possible about his ex girlfriend Yetunde. At the mention of her rivals name her back had straightened itself , and a stiff formailty took over from the lightness," You ask of Yetunde?" She asked, half pretending to have not understood the question," She was there and left for Lagos, I think, the day after her graduation." then after a moment of thought she added" And, my understanding is that you never did tell her what we had agreed upon..." He nodded in agreement. She looked more displeased still, and in an effort to assuage her anger, he added, " How could I do that to her during the week of her final exams? That would have been a dastardly deed indeed . Have you heard the saying,' For everything has it's time and it's place'." For Bola, the break-up with Yetunde could not come too soon.

The Calorie king truely is KING OF THE CALORIE

You cant be too rich or too thin...

And for that reason, I think this Atkins diet is a good way to get the pounds down before you swing into a maintenance diet.
A book that has helped me to count the carbs, and the calories:
THE CALORIE KING, CALORIE,FAT, AND CARBOHYDRATE COUNTER.
i CARRY THIS BOOK WITH ME  at all times, as I have had trouble running my"diet" iphone apps. it turned out to be cumbersome and tiresome logging my intake on their web sites, and I think maybe my phone kept getting disconnected from their sites, and this is supposed to be easy? The more difficult we make it, the less likely we are going to succeed.
Keep a running tab of your intake esp Carbohydrate, and when you fail once in a while, just hop back onto the wagon, no regrets.

ALCOHOL:
If you plan to consume alcohol after induction, then go for the 0 carbs ; brandy, gin, rum etc. However, these drinks are high calorie, do not consume more than one shot a day if you are female, and 2 if you are male. Beware, this will slow down your weight loss, so when you are in turbo mode cut it out entirely.

BTW: I love the calorie king book, he is so approachable makes sense of all this food stuff for us lay folk. Lotsa pics too, just up my simple minded alley. After your holy book, Bible or whatever, this is the next most important book for the rest of your life.

The NO- Food list for Atkins: Induction-and weight loss phases

In order for all who are not familiar with the diet to follow my trend of thought I want to clarify that in the initial phases of this diet foods with high carbohydrate content are excluded, I already showed you previously the high carbohydrate content of bananas and even cantaloupe! Like wise, in this phase do not eat any of these foods at all:
POTATOES>
RICE
CARROTS
Avoid WHITE SUGAR<BROWN SUGAR, All products made with white flour, all pastas,
take note NO PROCESSED FOODS OR COOKIES:. ONLY CRACKERS and the Breads, in small quantities goal 16 gm CHO per meal.

Later on, after you have achieved you desired weight you should be able to introduce small quantities of these foods, eg whole wheat pasta, quinoa / brown rice.
For now,  "KISS"
KEEP IT SIMPLE STUPID works for me!

Daily weights, mental preparation and bread substitutes: Keep to 16gm carbohydrate equivalent per meal for bread.

you are now ready to start on the diet, and the good news is that you can do this at home without a costly weight reduction center. A couple of things before you set off on this path of self fulfillment:
Firstly:
WEIGH YOURSELF EVERY SINGLE DAY FIRST THING IN MORNING. document your staring weight, waist size, hips, thigh diameter.
Secondly:
Prepare yourself mentally for the diet. remember, the first 72 hours are the most critical phase, as this phase will remove carbohydrate craving.
Thirdly;
For those of you who cannot get the specific products that I have mentioned here for the ease of my western audience, then you will have to substitute wisely.
The mestemacher bread, can probably be substituted with a rye or pumpernickel bread. I guess if all these were impossible,  you could always bake your own rye or pumpernickel bread. I dont have a recipe for that now, but I will share with you some of my own bread recipes in the future; but as my current recipes are for people in the pur maintenance phase I will give you them later.  I have an equal passion for the WASA crisp bread, which I will give you nutritional info on later. But if you have this, 1-2 slices a day of this is also okay.
Now, if you have none of these, then my advice would be SUBSTITUTE with MELBA toast, or whole wheat crackers, or saltines, or water crackers: But max carbohydrate intake with meal 16 GRAMS CARBOHYDRATE EQUIVALENT.

A bread for the continued weightloss phase: Mestemacher fitness bread,rye bread and pumpernickel bread.

Preparing for continued weight loss phase: 70- 120 grams carbohydrate goal per day.

Mestermacher fitness bread:
I found this bread in CVS, and I used this bread during my continued weight loss phase, and also cheated with it during induction when I was feeling like passing out etc etc...
I also have no finacial interest in this company, and I am sure there are many comparable breads which I do not know of, and as such I can only tell you what I know. But nowadays, it is easy, read the product labels of all foods.
this bread can be of help, note the description:

130 cal/slice.
2 gm fat.
370 mg Sodium.
23 gm Carbohydrate.
7 gm fibre
net total carbohydrate: 16 gm/ slice.
protein; 5 gm.
This means that during the continued weight loss phase you can add one or two slices of this bread perday to your diet.
To me, this was a life saver!!! I ate it with some vegetable margarinr spread and some sliced cheese.
This bread does not seem to mold easily, it is vaccum packed, and after I opened the packet I kept it in the fridge, and it was as good a week later, i think one pack contains 8 slices, and it will last you nearly a week. I bought mine at CVS but i see it is available online. I am hopeful that I will be bale to continue this product as a weight maintenance food.

Induction menu ideas

I will not undermine your imagination by giving you a detailed description about omellett- making, and scrambling eggs. suffice it that, you cant put all the veggies in the world yet; just discrete amounts of onions, and salt and pepper to taste. You can use a sprinkling of cheese too. In the first few days, force your self to eat the three meals a day. I did the egg breakfasts.

Now you ask, what do I do for lunch and dinner with those few choice items? I am not an imaginative cook either but I will share with you my humble ideas for this:
1. Lettuce wraps, filled with ground turkey cooked in olive oil seasoned with pepper,salt,onion.
I think I enjoyed that meal the most of all, it was not too heavy on the meat...

2. Steak: I pan fried this steak and ate with ketchup, and salad leaves. This was a heavy meal, try to make sure the protein or steak is not larger than the palm of your hand.

3. Pork meaty ribs slow cooker:
I fried 1/2 an onion in a pan and then browned 2 pounds of the meaty type pork ribs which had been seasoned with salt and lemon pepper. Then transfer to slow cooker, add 4-5 tablespoons of barbecue sauce,( this is high CHO you will not consume the sauce after the meat is cooked, other than small amounts attached to your meat, read label of your barbecue sauce!!!). red wine vingar 1/2 cup,
cook on high for 4-1/2 hours-6 hours until done by meat thermometer.

4. Fish:
Smoked salmon with salad

Tuna salad made with onions,celery,and mayo, mustard.

Shrimps.

Salmon grilled, with salad.


Emergency supplies:
Orange juice.
Saltine crackers.
Wasa Crisp bread 2-3/day
Imported german rye/ fitness bread.
hand ful of almonds.

If you are going to cheat, then cheat with the supplies we are going to use during the maintenance phase. 

also:
greek yoghurt
raspberries.
papaya.
weetabix.
unsweetened instant oatmeal.



The good news about this diet is that for most of the foods you are not fussing and obsessing about weights of the foods, keep portions reasionable I already said the steak size, and keep portions of proteins to size of your p[[alm.  on those salad leaves you can splurge just be careful to use a olive oil and balsamic vinaigrette dressing see ya later! good luck.

Atkins diet menu list

Induction: Goal 20 grams carbohydrate/day;

1. One dozen eggs.
2. One bunch celery.
3.One onion.
4. Canned tuna, 4 cans.
5. Mayonnaise, made with olive oil not low calorie.
6. Mustard.
7. Beef steak, 1 pound.
8. Ground Turkey 1 pound.
9. Bacon.
10. Deli meat, as sliced ham, or salami.
11. Light soy milk
12. Splenda.
13. Metamucil.
14. Spinach salad.
15. Romaine salad.
16. Sausages.
17. Keep some orange juice at home in case you feel really bad then you may have to perform a small rescue on yourself with some juice.

Remember: drink plenty of fluids, at least 8 8 oz glasses of water. No alcohol in this phase. In the pure form this should be your diet for 14 days, and some people have reported weight losses of upto 10 pounds in the first week. do all dieting under the advice of your physician, if you follow this diet it is at your own risk. see my cautions initially.

Kim Kardashian loses weight with Atkins.

Kim Kardashian loses weight with Atkins:

I am not a paid associate of Atkins, nor do I have any financial interest in their company, and I am blogging, albeit late , to help people with weight loss.  I started Atkins three weeks ago, and then today i saw the headlines of Kim Kardashian losing her baby weight! Any way, I have used this diet several times in the past, and sucessfully lost weight, and then I guess i regained it, because I am back here again. However, I could not lose weight on any other diet at all, and I fugure, it's better to be slim for a while then to be fat all the time.
I have given my cautions, watch how you feel as you go on this and if you feel weak it may mean you need more electrolytes.  Please do all this under the advice of your doctor.  I could only do three days of the induction, before I had to also drink some orange juice .
Let reason triumph over beauty at all times.
With this in mind, I intenrtionally did not attempt any form of exercise during the induction phase, save daily activities of walking and working etc.
My reasoning is that the first two weeks of this diet are accompanied by a diureses and ? electrolyte deficienceis, and if you are older you should probably follow this advice. Then at week 3 I started re-introducing short stints of exercise.  These stints of exercise were done before, but made no difference to my weight.  I'll keep you posted, and I'll later give details on the 2 week induction meal plans, which i left to your own imagination, as i think everyone got the idea, eggs, omelet, scrambled, boiled, sausage, bacon, steak, fish, all on salad leaves. No fruit, no nuts, no bread, pasta or anything else.

Atkins diet: target 70 gram Carbohydrate/day

I have no scientific backup, but I estimate, that somewhere between 70-120 gram CHO per day will be most peoples goals as the CHO threshold that allows continued weightloss. 

Unfortunately, most fruits will throw this diet off, and let me tell you why:
1 apple (med) 70 calories,0 gm fat,19 gm CHO
1 banana(med) 105 cal,0 fat, 27 gm CHO
1 mango           205 cal, fat 0, 53 CHO
1/2 cantaloupe, 195 cal,1fat, 46 gm CHO
1 orange,          85 cal,  fat 0,  CHO 21 gm
Papaya,1/2 cup, 30 cal, 0 fat, 7 gm CHO.
Water melon, 1 cup,   45 cal, 0 fat, 11 gm CHO.
PineApple, 1 slice, 40 cal, 0 gm fat, 10 gm CHO.
Guava, 1,              80 cal,1 gm fat, 12 gm CHO

I see the papaya is about the same caloric value as hand ful raspberries, and if you are into greek yogurt then you can have one serving greek yogurt, and 1/2 cup papaya.
The goal is to limit breakfast to 20 gm of CHo.
Lunch: 20 gm CHO
Dinner; 30 gm CHO.
If you do not want the yogurt, then a readily available cereal is Weetabix, take 1 weetabix, 65 cal, 1 gm fat, and 13 gm cho. add soy milk light, 1/2 cup approx 5 gm cho.
most cereals are prohibitively high in CHO. another option is instant oatmeal 1 pk 1 oz , i thin its unsweetened and the cho valu is 11 gm.

A review of the low carbohydrate diet by Atkins

The goal is to limit carbohydrate consumption:
Induction; Goal 20 gm carbohydrate per day. Continue induction for not more than two weeks would be my recommendation.  I was never able to get the urine strips to document ketosis.  However, I think this diet is great for quick weight reduction, with the caveat that it does become quite scary after a while, and you worry whether you are going to have a fatal arrhythmia, or intestinal obstruction from constipation. I am not sure about the original recommendation in regars to caffeine, but I believe he wanted this limited. I drank a lot of tea and coffee and that may be why I thought I would have an arrhythmia? Anyway, I used Splenda in my tea, and light soy milk, and I ate mostly eggs, steak, and fish, and ribs, with some salad leaves. To be honest with you this was so counter-intuitive to me...I hate eggs, rarely eat meat; and I had to force myself to stay away from whole grains and fruits.  After 3 days I started incorporating some whole grains as well, and I must have increased my CHO intake to 70 grams with rye bread 2 slices, or saltine crackers 10, or WASA crisp bread 2-3/day, and a hand ful of almonds- not more than 16 almonds per day.
As you can imagine my weight did not go down more than 4 pounds in 2 weeks, but I felt better on the 70 gram CHO per day. Do not forget to use the Metamucil when you start this diet.  By my own estimation, if you walk thirty minutes a day on this regimen you should lose about twice as much IE 8 pounds in nthe first two weeks.
The interesting thing is that after 3 days on the induction 0f 20 gram CHO perd ay you will lose your appetite for sweet things.
In week three I added small servings of greek yoghurt, with a handful of raspberries for breakfast.  One serving of the yogurt is 8 gm CHO, and theraspberries are the lowest carbohydrate fruit I know about 12 gram CHO for estimated 12 raspberries. I also added some avocado, which 1 large avocado is about 20 gm CHO, some tuna salad, i for got to mention during induction i did have tuna salad several days.

In the Atkins diet he wants everyone to determine their CHO threshold, which means the anount of carbohydrate you cab consume daily and still maintain weight loss.  I think that this goal is important as I feel that as soon as possible, you need to get off this diet with high meat consumption, and much saturated fats, and convert to a diet with whole grains with a low glycemic index.  Thus, the oatmeal which we talked about earlier, which is a high carbohydrate food, the steel cut oats,1/2 cup, 1.4 oz, 150 cal,3 gm fat, and 27 gram CHO. This means if your CHO threshold is at roughly 70 grams per day, you have nearly taken in half of daily alottment.  

Christiana Nwafor was a naiive twenty-one year old when she had been sent to Lagos by her mother.  The objective for the visit had been, in the mother's mind, that of either matrimony or employment.  If at all possible a perfect outcome would be the attainment of both, concomitantly.  But if this were not possible, and fate would have them choose only one or the other, then matrimony was deemed to be the superior.  For, in the end, what use would all the jobs in the world be, if a girl did not have a husband?  And, in the same vein, you could wait a life-time for work, and other than penury would not be much put out over it, but no worse fate could befall a maid other than to be literally left on the shelf.  And the biological clock is no respector of man or woman's needs for careers', and it ticks on, days turning to weeks and then years seemingly in the blinking of an eyelid.  In Enugu, the movements of this clock were intensified like the dry seasons heat was acting to drive the movements swifter. Indeed, most of Christiana's friends, and classmates, were happily married since the tender age of eighteen.  Nevertheless, Christiana did not allow these realities to deter her hopes for the future. She was tall and fair, and looked nothing like her mother.  Her face was oval in shape,and a small chin and nose served as a fine framework into which the brilliance of her large brown eyes lended some rays of glamour as the sun does the morning. And as the sun dominates the sky by day, her eyes were the sparkle of life to her visage and its most complementing feature.

Mr Tokunbo Ajayi makes a decision

Mr Tokunbo Ajayi makes a decisiion

The graduation:
The graduation ceremony at Obafemi Awolowo University in Ife had come and gone, even without the presence of Mr. Tokunbo Ajayi.  In a last moment of incertitude he had backed out of the attending the graduation alotogether.  For, he could not attend the ceremony as the fiance of Yetunde, which he no longer felt that he was; and Bola who had by now been secretly dating him for the last few months could not help but agree that the situation was at best awkward for all involved.. A week before the wedding he hurrieldy purchased two airline tickets for London; his was to leave the next morning and Bolas was to nleave the day after the graduation ceremonies at Ife were over. The plan was for them to celebrate in London, this next great phase of their lives which waited ahead of them, a future though unknown was firmly rooted in their committment to stya together. Contrary to appearances this sequel of events had not been hurried or altogether unplanned either, as they had spent largely every weekend together over the last few months, when Bola had taken transport down to Lagos to meet him.  They had found this arrangement necessary so as not to arouse any undue form of suspicion in Yetunde.   Bola had even broken off her relationship with the married man whose misstress she had been for a good while. She had come to realise, and not altogether without reason, that most married men never leave their wives, and although it had been a lot of fun( what with weekend trips to Paris, and expensive gifts), whilst it lasted, she was aware that no more could be expected from such relationships.  She knew well the fate of the sugar-daddy girls after their youth and beauty had long since faded they were inevitably abandoned by all of society and not least by the very men at whose hands they had been privileged to deserve such infamy.  no, she was fully dteremined that that would not be her lot, or as the popular love song stated," Lord, that shall not be my portion.." She had been wise enough to surmise that to her married lover she had been nothing more than a temporary amusement, a passing one at that, which could just as easily and quickly be replaced by another young thing which could also be any young thing...  As such she had beeen determined to leave this way of life behind as swiftly as she possibly could and before what little good remained of her name be lost forever.  But all that was well and good, what made everythuing more attractive was that she was quite as much in love with Toks as he was with her.  To her, he was as a breath of fresh air, she could nearly palpate the honor in his heart, and could smell the fragrant ardor of love and fidelity which he exuded around her.. In him she knew she never had to fear him becoming an old man fawning around young girls nor the plagues of infidelity.  perhaps he would not be able to splurge on weekends in Paris, at short notice; but at least he had the means at his disposal to keep her in a certain level of society which was not altogether bad.  In actuality, she wisely surmounted that it was always " better to not set one's eyes on things too great for her".  Yet, her the daughter of a primary school pricipakl would still have done very well for herself.  true, she had" lacked" much in that humble abode in Ondo state where she had grown up under adequate but quite meagre circumstances, thanks to the Nigerian government which could never pay salaries nor pensions on time, nor could it keep up the salary increases with the rates of inflation.. it was a world all gone amuck, not due to Papa's fault, as he had done all he was supposed to do. But what chance did he have as a sole upright principal surrounded by a corrupt government on every side.  And so they had mostly suffered wants and wants, just lijke the other 99.5 % of the population.  Her family had been duly ,albeit, informally intorduce dto the dashing Tokunbl, who in their eyes had been likened to a knight in shining armor coming riding in on a white horse to claim the hand of their beautiful but poor daughter.  Both mother and father had been quite overcome, for it was obvious by his manners and presentation that he was from the upper echelons of society that they so greedily coveted.
" I had always known that she was destined for great things" Papa had blurted out after the fact, in excitement to his wife.  And his wife was so overjoyed that words failed her and she nodded in agreement, as they had always known that this daughter whose beauty was indeed quite fabled would not fall short of the mark.  Finally her mother added, " Yes, I always knew that she had a little white angel sitting on her shoulder, for her life has so been charmed".

For all this parents could not really be blamed as, in their ignorance they had been sperd the details of their daughters sugar daddy days; in their naivitee they had not figured out that clothes designed by Yves saint Laurent in Chiffon could not be purchased with a principals entire yearly income, let alone on the daughters pocket money.