Warm bottom. Russ allowed his hand to rest there for a moment. She clutched his arm urgently."Russ! We mustn't! Can we go back? To the shop?"Russ felt...a trace of disappointment. "If you like." I can let Herbert go home. He said he would wait until we got back. Sally called him Herbie! Nobody ever called him that before, he said." I think he made quite an impression on young Sally." She made an impression on him! I don't know what she said to him, but he was shaking like a leaf after you took. But think about it, you are now thirtyyears younger. Isn't that worth a fortune?"I had already spent considerable amounts of money trying to preserve myyouth, so he had a point. But despite that strange logic, the wholesituation was too convoluted for me to accept. Especially since it wasnot my life or my body I had gained. And as I said to him, "But I'm awoman now." That?" he said. "I still sometimes forget that those distinctionsmatter to people. I'm sure you will get over it before long,. "Good game tonight. You guys humiliated the Badgers." So how come my all-star son, who is Jim Thorpe reincarnated, spent most of the night receiving instead of throwing," Dad wanted to know."Uh, sore arm." I reached up and started rubbing my left shoulder to emphasize the point." Anthony, you're right handed," Mom reminded me."Oh yeah." I grinned and switched to rubbing my right shoulder while my parents exchanged a look."Well that new guy did a great job at quarterback. I would have thought. He wanted me to come home with him for Thanksgiving dinner. In Los Vegas, Nevada. I wanted to spend it with my family in Reedville — the first holiday season without Gran-gran. The first without Lisa. There was no way I was going anywhere but home — with or without him. It's not that I blame him for wanting to go home for the holiday — I understood that completely. I just didn't get why he wouldn't just accept that we weren't spending this holiday together. The fight we had the night before I.