.. Dean Schmidt."I couldn't figure out why the two of them would need to meet unless they were working on a school-wide project together. So I asked, ...Dean Schmidt... the head of the Business Department? Why would he need to meet with the Acting Dean of Music?" I'm not sure," she replied. "He just asked me to come see him today."I turned and walked away. As I went downstairs, it occurred to me that even the college was another source of people who might want to have an affair with Colleen. What. It appeared as if all his family and friends were killed on a "whim".Realization came that they were all just unimportant pawns to those in charge and he grimly started to bury all the remains of those left without speaking a word.Watching this, his new friends pitched in and helped him and not one of them remarked as he silently worked with a silent grim expression or as tears sometimes ran down his face.They could see the determination in his eyes to make someone pay for all of this.Within. "Me 'n' Brian've gotta get this tub on its way to Circular Quay. We can yak when we're outta the Cove."Brian sat on the stool beside Skip. "And you'll haf'ta shoosh when we're on the radio," he said. "Else the Harbour Master'll rip us both a new one." I made a zipping motion across my lips and smiled back.Skip put on a radio headset and conducted an unintelligible conversation with the wharf crew which I hope meant they had cast off and we were cleared to leave port. He brought the engines up. Even when I was little, she'd sneakily call me 'Elfi' when nobody was watching.Grandma Jutta looked after me, and cared for me, and supported me through my transition. It had caused a family schism, but Grandma was tough, and she fought my corner. Few people were brave enough to argue with the undisputed matriarch of the family.Despite my mother and father's protests, Grandma did what the doctors recommended. She allowed me to transform into the girl I always knew I was. I took hormones and.