Lamar just left. come on home and see what he's done. Dinner will be on the table.I parked the car in the drive, hobbled up the steps to the kitchen d...or.In my best Desi Arnaz imitation, I called out, "Lucy, I'm home!"From the dining room, I heard, "Dinner's on the table. Come and get it!"Rounding the corner I stood in the doorway. My jaw dropped. There, splayed out on the table was Geri, stark naked."Bearded clam in a warm Bearnaise sauce, directly from chef Lamar."I stepped between her spread. Two of my favorite authors were going to die this summer, a month apart. William Faulkner would die on July the seventh, and Herman Hesse a month later on August ninth. Steppenwolf, the Hesse novel that would have a huge impact on me wasn't going to even be published until next year.Carrie was the one that this information would convince, and she would convince the others. I would have to start small.I let Mom and Dad know at dinner that night."Carrie was here today. She's noticed I'm acting. Doeswhat mommy just told you make you happy Melissa?" Of course it does mommy, of course it does!" Melissa hugged her motherand air kissed her on both cheeks as she did want to ruin her or hermother's makeup."Now tell me Melissa, since you just told mommy you want to be a woman,answer this question honestly. Who do you wish to be like?"Melissa beamed brightly, clapped her hands together and in a girlishdelight exclaimed, "I want to be just like mommy!" That is my darling daughter. I knew behind. Obviously, she was pregnant and all she could do was to send her for a dating scan but when Katherine told her the likely conception date she rubbed her chin and warned her she was probably out of time for an abortion and referred to be under a team of support workers. Suddenly, the truth hit Katherine: she was going to be a teenage mother, and she burst into tears the moment she left the Doctors' consultation room.Katherine was still in a daze when she got back home and saw her mother on the.