"In answer to your questions, Sarah has a color, an aura that she sometimes exhibits. I've only seen it once. It's silver. I don't know how you knew t...is, but she is adopted. We know nothing about her biological parents. She was adopted when she was four years old." Rhonda looked at us all intently. "None of this surprises any of you in the least, does it?" Samantha, bless her heart, gave her a hug."Not really," I answered. "Just as a wild guess, is her birthday April13th?" Poor Rhonda. She. It doesn't mean itwill fit me, does it? But as Rita guided my hands behind my back to hookup my bra I realised I was sealing my fate.I was wearing a bra for the first time in my life."Shall I glue the breastforms on or will you?" Rita said triumphantlywith a wicked smile on her face.I hung my head in shame. I had well and truly lost the bet. I was nowstanding in front of my girlfriend dressed like her.She guided my arms out of the straps and then stuck the breastforms to mychest."I look. Soon we were back onthe trail, doing the back half of the loop. That part of the route wasout of the trees a lot, and the temperature felt like a hundred degrees!Worse, the trail surface was all fine dust that erupted in little cloudsas we walked along, sticking to anything and everything including mysweaty arms and legs. But I have to admit I still loved having thechance to go on a hike with my friends, and the exercise felt more thanwonderful.Still, I was a hot, dirty, sticky and smelly mess. The only problem during that mission had been that I played my part as a gay office worker so well that I was asked for dates – twice.The work had been nice, but to tell the truth the it was not really enough to fill the emptiness I was feeling. Nor did the work always bring the adrenalin boost I had learned to like. I knew that if I had even hinted about my issues to Greg or Laura, they would have insisted that I go see a shrink. Since I wasn’t willing to do that, I made myself act as normally.