I stripped down to my boxer briefs and stepped into the shower, pushing patch against the wall. See, I'm not a fan of bikinis. A girl in a bikini leav...s nothing to the imagination. a one piece suit is mysterious. it means I get to strip it off. "hey, slow down tiger," she said, running her tongue against my bottom lip. "this thing is a size or two too small...it's a little tight in places..." Patch turned the hot water on, locking lips with mine.She had planned all this. Maybe I was scaring her. Standing there in her church lady dress and heeled shoes was Julia, the wife of a man in the nearby small town who worked with my wife at the hardware store. He was in a wheel chair having caught polio when he was in his mid twenties. I on the other hand was the atheist hippy with long hair and a short trimmed bear and mustache.Julia was clutching copies of the Watchtower and other papers to her waist. She hadn't properly seen me yet because of the screen door. I opened that door and she looked. .." No, it's the Creature From the Black Lagoon," said Susan, in her most guttural tone of voice. I peeked through the shower curtains at Sue's grinning, shiny-wet body. "Come on in, the water's fine," she added with a lascivious wink. I didn't hesitate, but stepped right in, and standing in the hot water, I hugged Susan and kissed her. "Thanks for the good night kiss," I told her."It was a strange place for straight talk, but maybe the water rushing over us had to do with it. Anyway, my. " Because she wants to be a her. The Baraandi might not havehad sexes, but they did deal with multiple gendersocieties. They found that, in a functioning society,gender was more about function than biology. Current humansociety is more than a little dysfunctional. But Lana wantsto be a female, so I need to respect her choice." I don't think it's that simple." For humans, it's not, but we're a little more than simplehumans. After you get a little better handle on yourBaraandi life, you will.