Thank you -for everything." She wiped at her cheeks. "Now look - I'm alreadycrying, and I'm not supposed to do that until the wedding actuallystarts... I'd better go, you can finish getting ready. There are a lot ofpeople you two don't want to keep waiting!" She gave Tommi another quickhug, turned, and walked out of the bride's room, pausing in the doorwayto smile at Sara and Tommi once more.Tommi walked over and hugged Sara tightly. "She's right, you know. Youare very special - and not. Rumors were, they did a little swinging however, no one could really say for sure. “Isn’t it a little unprofessional to discuss patients?” Ben quizzed. Ben’s question didn’t ruffle Doc, “Deege and I discuss everything. You know she has an interest in my research.” Deege was Freya’s gynecologist long before their first child and Freya scheduled regular check-ups every year. Deege was never a source of rumors. Apparently her concern for Freya’s condition bled over into pillow talk with Doc. *****. Mother announced that she had shopping to do and would bring something back for dinner. I wondered if it was an excuse to not have to be around Pat but kept my mouth shut. Shortly after she left Pat came wondering into my room.“Can we talk?” She said sounding very serious.I figured she wanted to talk about her pseudohermaphroditism. I had been reading up and felt prepared. Or maybe she wanted to talk about mom and dad. I was uncertain how to deal with that. They were being jerks but I. One day matts foreman said he had a job for me , one of the lads was Off work Ill and he wanted me to cover him and for a day or 2 until he came back in . At dinner while we was all in the canteen all the lads were having a laugh with me saying the guy I was going to be working with was called gay gray ( graham ) and he's gonna bum me and stuff along them lines , you can imagine the building site banter I was getting .Nobody knew I was gay and I wanted to keep it that way otherwise I would.