now she has a last name

Lara writes:

“You will have wonderful times together I am sure – Dr. Zamalek and Tamanya Tortoise (tort-toi-ze)!”

Tamanya Tortoise it is.

Lara rescued a couple of kittens from the streets of Cairo herself. One day soon thereafter she was going to dust her carpet over the balcony, and one of the kittens, appropriately named Tomato (you’d have to meet/see that reddish-tinted joker to understand), crawled out of the rolled-up carpet at the very last instant. She very nearly threw him over the balcony without knowing it! That would have taken her a long time to recover from.